The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009, Criterion) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray In a half-serious battle over whose giant robots rock harder, McG recently challenged Michael Bay to…
Ann Logue
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It”™s tough being a grandiose financial criminal these days. Lots of people ran scams that took millions from clients; Allan Stanford even collected a title while allegedly fleecing investors with…
John C. Hughes
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We’ve talked about Peter Godwin’s great lost art-rock combo, Metro, in a Lost in the ’70s post in the not-too-distant past, but most people who have a passing knowledge of…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE You know, of all the alcoholidays that grace us yearly, I would venture to guess that Cinco de Mayo is going to eclipse St. Patrick’s…
Bob Cashill
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Though a few days overdue by the calendar, Enchanted April (1992) has finally made it to DVD. And, boy, did I need it. The movie tells us that what women…
Mojo Flucke
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Full disclosure: I’m a Hammond B-3 soul and soul-jazz freak, so I’m a homer here. My universe aligns around the likes of great players like Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy…
Rob Smith
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To know the unknowable is one of the great pursuits of sentient beings everywhere.Á‚ Has been for as long as there’s been sentient beings.Á‚ But to truly know the unknowable…
David Medsker
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Think you know your album artwork? Put your skills to the test with the latest installment of David Medsker’s Cover Me — back and better than ever!
Jon Cummings
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Last year, in the midst of compiling my “Worst Number One Songs of the Rock Era” series, I began contemplating the sad, sorry fate of those records that have come…
Peter Chakerian
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Jon & Kate Plus … Date?: Can’t help but start with the worst first. If there’s one thing that’s certain in the world of entertainment, it’s the love of a…
Mike Heyliger
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If it’s Monday, that must mean it’s time to go back to 1989 — and for this week’s Popdose Flashback, Mike Heyliger looks at Janet Jackson’s multimegaplatinum opus Rhythm Nation 1814.
Matchup Monkey
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“Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired…
Rich DeWester
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Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (Koei, 2009) Purchase from Amazon: Playstation 3 | Xbox 360 Koei’s powerhouse, Omega Force, returns with its second installment of the Dynasty Warriors Gundam franchise, adding…
Ted Asregadoo
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Amber Benson has come a long way since her days as Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Tara — and she talks about her new novel, Death’s Daughter, in an interview with Ted Asregadoo that is remarkably free of the word “homina.”
Lance Berry
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The cover has Sentinels on it. The opening credits have Sentinels in them. The back cover seems to promise this will be a really cool, animated adaptation of the classic…
Taylor Long
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If anyone other than Throbbing Gristle had been playing the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Tuesday night, the fact that the crowd was older and stranger and on more drugs than…
Kelly Stitzel
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I’m a James Spader fan from way back. I would say as far back as Tuff Turf (1985), but I technically didn’t see that movie until a couple of years…
Robert Cass
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In a 2004 interview with music writer Casey Fundaro (a.k.a. “David Fufkin”), former Marah singer-guitarist Serge Bielanko said, “My brother [Dave, the leader of Marah] and I grew up listening…
Jack Feerick
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Jeff Buckley — Kashmir from Live at l’Olympia (2001) The Tea Party — Save Me from Splendor Solis (1994) Orchestre National de Jazz — Black Dog from Close to Heaven:…
Jack Feerick
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Take a mid-list British actor — not a character actor exactly, but not traditional leading-man material either. Slap him with a permanently sour expression and a four-day beard, then cast…
Jeff Giles
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Got some thoughts to share about the new design — good or bad? How about a wish list of past columns you’d like to see return to active duty? Check in with editor-in-chief Jeff Giles, whose latest Letter From the Editor discusses Popdose’s recent facelift.
Lance Berry
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After years of anticipation, months of troubling rumors, and one Internet leak, Gavin Hood’s Wolverine is finally here. Is it sharp enough to cut it? Lance Berry lets you know.
Jon Cummings
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The Republican Party’s annus became considerably more horribilis this week, with Arlen Specter switching parties, President Obama taking what amounted to a 100-days victory lap (despite the economy’s continuing decline),…
John C. Hughes
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No, no, dear reader, I didn’t lose track while writing at 11pm once again and accidentally throw up a Lost in the ’80s post.Á‚ By 1990, Adam Ant was pretty…
Mojo Flucke
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This column, sadly, sometimes looks like the blues obituary page. Well, forget that for now! This Shot, we’re celebrating the life Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, a ripping-good Chicago-style guitarist who…
Scott Malchus
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Spring is in the air, and the baseball season is still young — which has Scott Malchus thinking about the eternal hope of the hardcore fan while listening to John Fogerty’s “Centerfield.”
Arend Anton
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Is there a key to creativity? Could there be some way of unlocking what is within the mind at any given time? The answer to this question has often eluded…
Bob Cashill
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Directing an Oscar-nominated picture might earn you the respect of your peers, but it doesn’t make you immune from the vagaries of the Hollywood studio system, as Rod Lurie has learned firsthand: the direct-to-DVD fate of his two most recent projects was just one of the topics addressed during a recent chat with Bob Cashill.