HBO’s documentary of the Russian performance artists is a riot for punk rock lovers and politicos alike.
Tom Carson
Tom Carson won two National Magazine Awards during his stint as Esquire’s “Screen” columnist and has been nominated twice more as GQ’s movie reviewer. Formerly a staff writer at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, he is the author of Gilligan’s Wake (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2003) and Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter.
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Michele, Our Belle
Saying farewell to the representative culture critics and comedians loved and progressives watched in horror
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Star Bleck
The second entry in the J.J. Abrams’ reboot doesn’t have the fun of the first outing, and all that’s left is one more humongazoid, cluttered summer blockbuster whose gobbledygook plot just spackles over the interludes between kaboom-happy CGI set pieces.
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Da Gr8 Gatsbee
Nobody’s going to mistake Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic for a great movie. But, there’s no doubt it’s a fun ride.
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Sentimental for the Stones Ages
Who has two thumbs and won’t be attending a Rolling Stones concert this year? This moi.
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When Rock Criticism Found Its Voice
A new book charts the intellectual history of the Village Voice’s towering rock critics, as well as the community that sprung up around them.
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Iron-Willed Town, Iron-Willed Lady
How Margaret Thatcher’s death muted our critic’s need to sift through the politics of Boston’s tragedy.
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Veep’s Much Improved Trash-Talking Minuet
The second season of Veep kicks off on Sunday with a very entertaining montage of Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia-Louis Dreyfus) on the campaign trail. She’s delivering a clunker of a stump speech-“Freedom isn’t ‘Me-dom.’ It’s ‘We-dom’!”-that climaxes with a peachy parody of the Anecdotal American our pols so love to describe encountering when being […]
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Roger Ebert, the People’s Movie Critic
Remembering the reviewer adored by movie lovers obsessive and recreational alike
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“Jackass” Goes Geopolitical
Vice’s foray into doumentary film may make you shake your head, but you can’t deny it’s good television.