Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying is one of my favorite slightly-forgotten suspense novels–tight, perfectly…
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I love when songwriters reference pop culture. For some reason, songwriters tend to be more…
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I have not seen either John Wick (the third one or either of the other…
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“For those who came in late…” Across the dark realm of the Orient exists a…
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At the time this essay went up, Todd Phillips’ Joker, an origin story for Batman’s…
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Imagine being so much in the public eye your whole life that your college transcript…
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The thing about scheduling people way in advance, which I’ve been doing lately, is that…
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A thing I don’t actually mention much in these columns is how much the portrayals…
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Health issues caused me to post this late. I hope you can forgive me my…
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The Midwest United States, closer to both Washington DC and Hollywood than they are to…
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