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Cultural satirist and novelist Kurt Vonnegut died today. He was 84. Vonnegut suffered brain injuries from a fall in his Manhattan apartment a few weeks ago and he had been hospitalized ever since. He meant ever...

Where does one start with enigmatic crooner Scott Walker? His impressive career is incredibly difficult to summarize in a simple blogpost, but here's a basic overview.The handsome baritone balladeer started his...

The restored version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 13-part (plus epilogue), 15 1/2 hour marathon, "Berlin Alexanderplatz," begins its North American premiere tonight at the Modern Museum of Art. Only New Yorker...

Rumors abound with the new Wes Anderson film, "The Darjeeling Limited," which wrapped principal photography recently. This much seems true: - The film is about 3 brothers (Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson and A...

I saw the Criterion DVD re-release of Noah Baumbach’s "Kicking & Screaming" this weekend and I have to say this film keeps getting better with age. It’s a film I originally loathed – affluent, Gen-X-y white...

The Sopranos last night was a portentous slow-burn with tons of exhausting what's-gonna-happen dread and Lynchian foreshadowing. As usual, the Sopranos producers have an incredibly cinematic way of using music ...

This time, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. are getting the same kind of love as New York. Beloved Winnipeg surrealist filmmaker Guy Maddin ("The Saddest Music on Earth," sometimes known as the "Canadian David L...

OK, how's this for a story? It combines a film and soundtrack 10 years in the making, black magick, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, LSD and mescaline trips, the Sexual Freedom league, Charles Manson, sweet, sweet, m...

Out on DVD This Week:- The original swinging London, 1967 "Bedazzled," starring Peter Cook and sans Elizabeth Hurley- Robbed in the Foreign Oscar category and by robbed we mean, not even nominated, Pedro Almodo...