Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Something Gets Lost Between the Songs in Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit

For reasons I’m not sure I explain, we are in a cinematic era of fake female rock/pop singers. Gone is the fascination with biopics of real singers (with the exception […]

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Film, Film & TV

2018 in Review: What We Liked on the Big Screen (Narratives Edition)

A Star Is Born

I’m the dummy who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen or […]

Steve Prokopy /
Music, Reviews

A Conversation with Mallrat & Maggie Rogers’ Final Stop Before SNL

At 5:15pm on Tuesday, October 30, there was already a line forming outside of The Riviera — where Mallrat and Maggie Rogers would be playing that night, having sold out […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Bradley Cooper Directs A Star Is Born, One of the Finest Films of the Year

A Star Is Born

There’s a song we hear on several occasions during the latest incarnation of A Star Is Born that begins with the lyric “Maybe it’s time to let the old ways […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Film fest

Dispatch: Toronto International Film Festival Introduces the Year’s Hits…and Misses

A Star Is Born

Positioned as it is in early September, the Toronto International Film Festival has long been a first stop for films destined for Oscar glory by the end of any given […]

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