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Musings about film, music, theater things I am working on. There might be a bit of shameless self-promotion.
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You Are Such a Bad Person (opens the original)
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“Your definition of bad and my definition of bad are vastly different,” To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) tells actor and pedophile decoy Dan Plumb (Skyler Gisondo) near the end of Primetime, documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim’s fiction feature debut. And, boy oh boy, is Primetime full of people behaving badly.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FTam!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
Portrait of the Celebrity Chef as a Young Man (opens the original)
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For those of us who jumped late into the Anthony Bourdain bandwagon with his food travelogues No Reservations and Parts Unknown, without ever having read any of his books or frankly not having paid enough attention to the foodie scene, Matt Johnson’s new film, Tony, might come as a bit of a shock. How to reconcile the young asshole we see on the screen with the globe-trotting, curious persona of those shows? But as Walt Whitman wrote in his poem “Song of Myself” dozens of decades before the cele
Who’s Afraid of Olivia Wilde? (opens the original)
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What’s left of the studio system sure as hell doesn’t make adult comedies like The Invite no more.It has been a long, long while since I have laughed so hard, from beginning to end, at the movies. Forget the poison pen. As adapted by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack from Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay’s play and film Sentimental (The People Upstairs), The Invite was written with a poisoned keyboard, its corrosive dialogue full of what the Spanish call
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