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Year of the Month

Year of the Month

“I Just Want to Sleep” — The Narrow, Dark World of The Machinist

June 23, 2020

Self-knowledge, guilt, and fear.

Year of the Month

To Dust We Return: The Grapes of Wrath in a Pandemic

May 5, 2020

History rhymes.

Year of the Month

Loser’s Debut: Can’t Buy a Thrill

April 14, 2020

Steely Dan’s debut has its flaws, but establishes the band’s signature sound from the start.

Year of the Month

“She Was the Happiest Corpse I’d Ever Seen”: Cabaret and the Show That Didn’t End

April 9, 2020

History gets refracted multiple times in the many productions of this musical.

Year of the Month

Shining violence in the city: After Dark, featuring Italians Do It Better and Johnny Jewel

February 19, 2020

The Italians Do It Better label compilation is the perfect introduction to the mid-2000s Italo-disco revival

Year of the Month

No One Left to Listen: Family and Loss in There Will Be Blood

February 6, 2020

“We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand.”

Year of the Month

What’s Up, Doc? The Cartoonish Mayhem of Shoot ‘Em Up

February 4, 2020

The 2007 action film is a gleefully over-the-top, hyper-stylized thrill ride of fun that never lets up

Year of the Month

The Thin Man (and Family Memories)

January 14, 2020

Pour me another drink, darling.

Year of the Month

I’ve Found a Love of My Own: “Blue Moon”

January 13, 2020

A fine selection from the Great American Songbook.

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Little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously: Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde

December 29, 2019

On Bob Dylan's masterwork, and the parallels between it and the author's life