It may not be getting the same buzz as Girls, but Enlightened is growing nicely into its second season.
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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More Downton Abbey, Less Grand Theft Auto? Not Gonna Happen.
Last week, my sort-of opposite number at ThinkProgress.org-culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, who also writes for The Atlantic and Slate-posted the kind of prescriptive think piece about Our Violent Culture that makes old geezers like me heave a hefty sigh as we finger our own dog-eared membership cards in the vast left-wing conspiracy. Just for the […]
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Making Liberal Hearts Bleed in Anytown, U.S.A.
What is the purpose of didactic movies like Promised Land?
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Making Liberal Hearts Bleed in Anytown, U.S.A.
What is the purpose of didactic movies like Promised Land?
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Don’t Put Flowers on Hollywood’s Grave Yet
Film could be headed for a renaissance instead of its long-predicted journey into the blockbuster night.
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Zero Dark Thirty’s Morality Brigade
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden movie doesn’t endorse torture.
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Dial M for Meh
Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock fails to capture the artistry of the famed director.
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Cold War Revisited
Two new books examine how we have chosen to remember, and what we have chosen to forget, about the war that consumed the 20th century.
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Camelot’s Begetter
Besides being the father of John, Bobby, and Teddy, Joe Kennedy left behind a tattered legacy.
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Road Trip! Road Trip!
What will the latest generation of cinephiles make of Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend?