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That Was 2024

My year in review

 ~ 12 minute read

Robtober 2024

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

Once in a Lifetime

A game show for the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society

 ~ 12 minute read

That Was 2023

My year in review

 ~ 15 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2023

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Q: Into the Storm

~ 1 minute read

Brute Force

~ 1 minute read

I Watched All 10 Saw Movies in Five Days So You Don’t Have To

~ 9 minute read

Robtober 2023

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival

~ 17 minute read

Cade: The Tortured Crossing

~ 1 minute read

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

~ 1 minute read

Police Story 3: Supercop

~ 2 minute read

Field Day: New York City

Featuring art from Tara Donovan, Odili Donald Odita, Edward Hopper, Guillermo del Toro, Alex Katz, and Nick Cave

 ~ 5 minute read

That Was 2022

My year in review

 ~ 19 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2022

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 4 minute read

William F. Buckley Jr. at Cannes

~ 1 minute read

Robtober 2022 Design Notes

How to design a ransom note

 ~ 3 minute read

31st Philadelphia Film Festival: Animated Shorts Program

~ 6 minute read

Robtober 2022

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

Mad God

~ 1 minute read

We Own This City

~ 1 minute read

The Godfather

~ 1 minute read

Line Goes Up: The Problem With NFTs

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2021

The highlights and lowlights of another pandemic year

 ~ 16 minute read

The House

~ 2 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2021

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 6 minute read

Turning Ten: A Decade on Letterboxd

~ 2 minute read

The Matrix Resurrections

~ 1 minute read

Rope

~ 1 minute read

The Crucible

~ 1 minute read

Robtober 2021 Design Notes

The making of a custom-designed blog post

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Robtober 2021

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival

28 countries, 51 shorts, 1 feature, 13 days

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Blade Runner

~ 1 minute read

Zola

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Possessor

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Nomadland

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2020

It sure was.

 ~ 16 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2020

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 4 minute read

Tim’s Vermeer

~ 1 minute read

Terminator: Dark Fate

~ 1 minute read

Jen Mussari’s Killer Lettering

The making of the terrifying Robtober 2020 logo

 ~ 8 minute read

Office Killer

~ 1 minute read

Street Trash

~ 1 minute read

Robtober 2020

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival

30 countries, 82 shorts, 3 features, 11 days

 ~ 33 minute read

The Imogen Poots Index

Twenty-eight weeks later, how close is this pandemic to ‘28 Weeks Later’?

 ~ 2 minute read

Verotika

~ 1 minute read

Fictional Band Trivia

Test your knowledge of made-up music makers!

 ~ 4 minute read

That Was 2019

The highlights of what I took in and put out

 ~ 20 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2019

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Lake Mungo

~ 1 minute read

Robtober 2019

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake

 ~ 1 minute read

2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival

21 countries, 76 shorts, 5 features, 48 hours

 ~ 26 minute read

Behind the Curve

~ 1 minute read

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

~ 1 minute read

Links: February 2019

~ 14 minute read

That Was 2018

The highlights of what I took in and put out

 ~ 20 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2018

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 6 minute read

Links: November 2018

~ 14 minute read

Decades of Horror

Using personal data and crowdsourcing for film curation

 ~ 7 minute read

Links: October 2018

~ 15 minute read

Robtober 2018

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake.

 ~ 10 minute read

2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival

~ 9 minute read

Links: August 2018

~ 13 minute read

Links: June 2018

~ 14 minute read

Twelve Bucks, Twenty Years

The strange story of a student film with a surprising shelf life.

 ~ 10 minute read

Hereditary

~ 2 minute read

A Quiet Place

~ 1 minute read

The Fountainhead

~ 1 minute read

Links: April 2018

~ 12 minute read

Links: March 2018

~ 17 minute read

Links: February 2018

~ 17 minute read

Links: January 2018

~ 10 minute read

That Was 2017

The highlights of what I took in and put out.

 ~ 20 minute read

I, Tonya

~ 1 minute read

Links: December 2017

~ 26 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2017

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 15 minute read

Call Me by Your Name

~ 1 minute read

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

~ 2 minute read

The Disaster Artist

~ 2 minute read

Links: November 2017

~ 24 minute read

The Florida Project

~ 1 minute read

Loving Vincent

~ 2 minute read

Links: October 2017

~ 18 minute read

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

~ 1 minute read

Frankenstein’s Army

~ 1 minute read

10 Cloverfield Lane

~ 1 minute read

It (1990)

~ 1 minute read

78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene

~ 1 minute read

Mother!

~ 1 minute read

Super Dark Times

~ 1 minute read

Robtober 2017

A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake.

 ~ 11 minute read

2017 Ottawa International Animation Festival

21 countries, 67 shorts, 3 features, 48 hours.

 ~ 29 minute read

Links: August 2017

~ 19 minute read

The Evil Within

~ 1 minute read

Hounds of Love

~ 1 minute read

Links: May 2017

~ 21 minute read

In a Lonely Place

~ 1 minute read

Kubo and the Two Strings

~ 1 minute read

Graffiti Bridge

~ 1 minute read

Links: February 2017

~ 17 minute read

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

~ 1 minute read

Rashomon

~ 1 minute read

Arrival

~ 1 minute read

Links: January 2017

~ 16 minute read

Gates of Heaven

~ 1 minute read

Links: December 2016

~ 23 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2016

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 8 minute read

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

~ 1 minute read

Links: October 2016

~ 6 minute read

I Saw the Devil

~ 1 minute read

The Visit

~ 1 minute read

Under the Shadow

~ 1 minute read

Bloody Birthday

~ 1 minute read

Don’t Breathe

~ 1 minute read

Links: September 2016

~ 13 minute read

Snowden

~ 1 minute read

River’s Edge

~ 1 minute read

Links: August 2016

~ 18 minute read

Inequality for All

~ 1 minute read

Links: July 2016

~ 16 minute read

Terminator Genisys

~ 1 minute read

Links: May 2016

~ 20 minute read

Links: April 2016

~ 15 minute read

Fantastic Lies

~ 1 minute read

Midnight Special

~ 1 minute read

Links: March 2016

~ 22 minute read

The Witch

~ 2 minute read

The Look of Silence

~ 1 minute read

Links: February 2016

~ 9 minute read

The Witch

~ 1 minute read

Links: January 2016

~ 5 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2015

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 2 minute read

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

~ 1 minute read

Nightcrawler

~ 1 minute read

The Damned

~ 1 minute read

It Follows

~ 1 minute read

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

~ 1 minute read

The Trip to Italy

~ 1 minute read

Best Films of 2014

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2014

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Whiplash

~ 2 minute read

Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats

~ 1 minute read

Society

~ 1 minute read

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

~ 1 minute read

Black Sabbath

~ 1 minute read

The Mist

~ 1 minute read

Muscle Shoals

~ 1 minute read

Breadcrumb Trail

~ 1 minute read

Stripped

~ 1 minute read

Narco Cultura

~ 2 minute read

Mud

~ 1 minute read

20 Feet from Stardom

~ 1 minute read

Veronica Mars

~ 2 minute read

Thelma & Louise

~ 1 minute read

The Price of Gold

~ 1 minute read

The Act of Killing

~ 2 minute read

The Lego Movie

~ 1 minute read

Elena

~ 1 minute read

In the House

~ 1 minute read

12 O’Clock Boys

~ 1 minute read

The Wolf of Wall Street

~ 1 minute read

Her

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2013

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 1 minute read

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

~ 1 minute read

The Sapphires

~ 1 minute read

Compliance

~ 2 minute read

Best Films of 2012

~ 2 minute read

Obstruction by Design

We always talk about design getting out of the way, but does it ever make sense for design to get in the way?

 ~ 2 minute read

Paranormal Activity 3

~ 3 minute read

The Innkeepers

~ 2 minute read

Not of These Earths

~ 8 minute read

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

~ 1 minute read

Sleepwalk with Me

~ 1 minute read

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

~ 1 minute read

Hit So Hard

~ 1 minute read

Cultural Cannibalism

Concerns about remix culture’s critical mass.

 ~ 1 minute read

Moonrise Kingdom

~ 1 minute read

Once Upon a Time in America

~ 1 minute read

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

~ 1 minute read

The Fly

~ 1 minute read

The Statue of Liberty

~ 1 minute read

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

~ 1 minute read

Just Like Being There

~ 1 minute read

Refused Are Fucking Dead

~ 1 minute read

Bobby Fischer Against the World

~ 1 minute read

Life During Wartime

~ 1 minute read

Bill Cunningham New York

~ 1 minute read

Rambo: First Blood Part II

~ 1 minute read

The Myth of the American Sleepover

~ 1 minute read

The Undefeated

~ 1 minute read

Art and Artifice

The why of art is more important than the how.

 ~ 3 minute read

The Trip

~ 1 minute read

Red State

~ 1 minute read

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

~ 1 minute read

The Crazies

~ 1 minute read

The Others

~ 1 minute read

Hostel Part II

~ 1 minute read

Saw VI

~ 2 minute read

Song of the Thin Man

~ 1 minute read

Watchmen

~ 1 minute read

D.O.A.

~ 1 minute read

Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

~ 1 minute read

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: December 2008

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: November 2008

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Consumption: October 2008

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Consumption: September 2008

~ 1 minute read

Fall Travels

~ 2 minute read

Consumption: August 2008

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: July 2008

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Consumption: June 2008

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Consumption: May 2008

~ 1 minute read

Ode to a Town Best Forgotten

~ 2 minute read

Xanadu

~ 1 minute read

Wayne Across America

~ 1 minute read

How Do You Spell Relief? A-U-S-T-I-N

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: April 2008

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: February 2008

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Consumption: January 2008

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Consumption: December 2007

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Consumption: November 2007

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Consumption: October 2007

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Consumption: September 2007

~ 1 minute read

Here and Now

~ 2 minute read

Consumption: August 2007

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: July 2007

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Consumption: June 2007

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Consumption: May 2007

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Consumption: April 2007

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Consumption: March 2007

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South by Southwest 2007

~ 3 minute read

Consumption: January 2007

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: December 2006

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Consumption: November 2006

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Consumption: October 2006

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Consumption: September 2006

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Consumption: July 2006

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Consumption: June 2006

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1976

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: May 2006

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Consumption: April 2006

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Consumption: March 2006

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Looking Down My Nose Into the Mirror

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Consumption: February 2006

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Consumption: January 2006

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Four Things

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: December 2005

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: November 2005

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Consumption: October 2005

~ 1 minute read

The Horror

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: September 2005

~ 1 minute read

The Inheritance

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: August 2005

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: July 2005

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: June 2005

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: May 2005

~ 1 minute read

Revenge of the Sith

~ 3 minute read

6 for the Price of One

~ 1 minute read

Consumption: April 2005

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Consumption: March 2005

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In the 77 days since I last posted: I started a new full-time design job at TMX Communications. My face...

~ 1 minute read

The Philadelphia Film Festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and as it turned out, about 4 of the 8...

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The 13th Philadelphia Film Festival began on Thursday and I’ve managed to fit 8 screenings into my schedule this year,...

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Spaceboy Music got the new Tortoise album, It’s All Around You, nearly two weeks ahead of its release date, so...

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BREDSTIK Entertainment made its second foray into frenetic weekend filmmaking, this time for the 48 Hour Film Project, on the...

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I’m not often interested in shows that could conceivably sell out in less than five minutes after tickets have been...

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Okay, here’s a pretty charming concept: You’re a musician who combs estate sales for the personal slide collections of the...

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You know, neither my physique nor my personality suggests a similarity to any hibernating animal that I can think of,...

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Since Pittsburgh is the other big city in Pennsylvania, and I had never been there, I decided to check it...

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The sleepless National Film Challenge weekend is behind me and its results have far exceeded both my expectations and my...

~ 1 minute read

Dial-A-Spy: Production Notes

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I remain too distracted to produce contemplative opuses detailing my recent experiences, so here is some brusque vagueness about my...

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Last night, I registered team “BREDSTIK Entertainment” in the National Film Challenge, which works like this: At 7:00 PM on...

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There has been plenty going on, but I haven’t had much to say about any of it. Lightning Bolt, Hangedup,...

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I have been very fortunate (except perhaps in the case of Thirteen) to have so many free movie opportunities lately....

~ 1 minute read

I learned so much tonight! Were you aware that adolescence is difficult, and that teenagers sometimes abuse drugs and alcohol?...

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Mine is now the supreme pleasure of having viewed the Japanese cult hit Battle Royale. The premise goes like this:...

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Massive Attack and Mondays don’t mix. My eyelids weren’t giving gravity much of a fight this afternoon. Last week’s lucky...

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After redeeming my pass to a sneak preview of Dirty Pretty Things, I somehow stumbled into the wrong theater; when...

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My friends and fellow Kutztown alumni in the Table Collective opened a small exhibition with a variety of work in...

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My roommates and I have found a rather nice apartment in South Philadelphia. We signed the lease on Friday. We...

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It was a beautiful day for a drive to Doylestown yesterday, where an “Independent Double Feature” screened at the County...

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If you read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None: Hollywood fed it through the Shyamalan and Craven machines and...

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Working for the company that produces the Philadelphia Film Festival allows me convenient access to VHS screeners of most of...

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So a bunch of stuff happened in the last week. Puppetmania on Monday turned out to be the best of...

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More film fest stuff this weekend. I caught a little bit of the Lost Film Fest 8.0 on Friday, including...

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Congratulations to my cousin Bill and his wife Tara, who, around 3:00 on Friday afternoon, gave birth to my tiny...

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I saw Lost in La Mancha last night, a documentary account of visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated first stab at...

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Busy, busy week. We have updated the BREDSTIK site for the first time in almost a year, with Flash goodies...

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I guess it’s been pretty quiet around here. In the last month: I braved the Philadelphia blizzard fallout to get...

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I avoided seeing The Piano Teacher when it was in theaters in the States last spring because I didn’t want...

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It’s doubtful this will be of any interest to many people besides me, but since I can think of at...

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I really have to start trusting my instincts. Hell, even trusting the evidence of my senses would have sufficed in...

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Halloween was fun. The afternoon was begun with a matinee of P.T. Anderson’s pitch-perfect Punch-Drunk Love, and rounded out by...

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Happy Birthday, Dad! Lethargy month is drawing to a close. I’ve been out and about for the usual films and...

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I’ve been back from Ottawa for nearly a week now and the annoying cold I contracted while I was there...

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I’ll be in Ontario for the next five days at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Some brief scattered comments before...

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I caught a free sneak preview of Das Experiment last night. It stars Moritz Bleibtreu of Run Lola Run fame...

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There was much rocking this week. Saturday night was Andrew W.K. in Jersey, at this weird sprawling complex filled with...

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My animated LEGO Trilogy shorts collection will be screening at the Bumpin’ Big Top at midnight this Saturday as part...

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M. Night Shyamalan is smart. He knows people don’t want to see a movie about Mel Gibson struggling with his...

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This month’s Exhumed Films event (which was last night) featured two films from Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, the director/producer...

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Mary and I were all set to go see Tuatara last night before we discovered that they cancelled the show...

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Friday night was a rewarding but ultimately forgettable show at the Troc with The Shins, Beachwood Sparks, and some horrible...

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I was very pleased today to discover that the lineup on the new Skeleton Key album Obtainium is identical to...

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Volumes 1 and 2 of the Lost Film Fest DVD compilations are now available. I’m not sure if they’ve actually...

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Just got back from a weekend in New York, primarily for two nights’ worth of sold out shows at North...

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There are still a couple days left to check out the Lost Film Festival 7.0 in West Philly; it is...

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I finally saw Miller’s Crossing this weekend; it was the last of the Coen brothers’ films I hadn’t seen. It...

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It’s a three movie week. Spiderman was pretty fun; it’s rare these days for a movie to have an acceptable...

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Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer’s fantastic Conspirators of Pleasure screened tonight at the International House. This is the first Švankmajer feature...

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Should I go see Trouble Every Day on Thursday or should I go see The Locust? I don’t think I’ll...

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I survived the trip home, and apparently spring arrived while I was gone. The ice cream man is in full...

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My generous hosts and I got back a couple hours ago from seeing a gorgeous digitally remastered 70mm print of...

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