Hustle spins a familiar plot into a story that’ll keep you invested even if you don’t know a hoop dream from an embroidery hoop.
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Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories makes music out of humor and pain
Noah Baumbach’s latest comic drama is now playing at the Landmark Century and available to stream on Netflix.
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Jewdriver, a parody Skrewdriver cover band
What a 2006 Hanukkah seven-inch by a California punk band who perform parody covers of a neo-Nazi group says about the holiday.
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Did Hanukkah hip-hop peak with ‘Dreidel Rap ’89’?
Jews and rap go way back together, but holiday songs usually turn the combination into a dumb punch line. That makes this 25-year-old Chicago cassingle an especially welcome find.
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Lee Sandlin, scourge of the small screen
Revisiting the take-no-prisoners TV criticism of Lee Sandlin
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The Marx Brothers TV Collection follows the legendary comedy team into the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s
A new three-DVD set from Shout! Factory collects the Marx Brothers’ TV appearances.
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God, Godzilla, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs the rest of this week’s screenings?
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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A decade under the influence of terrible movies
The ten biggest turkeys I’ve reviewed
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This week’s movies, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Punch-Drunk Love and a film’s usefulness
How Punch-Drunk Love is the most useful film I’ve ever seen
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Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Nice Handbag—But What Does It Mean?
I’m sure there have been whole dissertations written on the cultural significance of the handbag in contemporary society. Trying to prove myself right, I stumbled across an interesting essay on the subject from Paula Marantz Cohen, an author and professor of English at Drexel University who has written many lively pieces about shopping and style.