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Git Out: Torn Hearts and the Horrors of the Music Business

November 18, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

In the pilot episode of Mike Judge’s sorely underrated music history series Tales from the Tour Bus, Judge explains he wanted to do the show because he found it funny that conservatives constantly bemoaned the violent, drug-fueled antics of gangster rappers when so many country legends were just as wild, if not worse. Any good student […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: country music, Film, horror, music business, nashville, torn hearts

A Million and One Places to Go: Revisiting the Art of the Hustle in Susan Siedelman’s Smithereens

August 23, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Smithereens Susan Berman

Do you have a picture in your head of New York? Does it come from real life? Or the memory of art? I know the New York I see when I close my eyes. It is rooted in history but still basically myth, culled from photographic histories of the births of punk and hip hop, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Brad Rinn, Criterion, Film, New York, Richard Hell, Smithereens, Susan Berman, Susan Seidelman

Anarchist Cody Wilson Takes on the Government in The New Radical

December 1, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

The New Radical

It’s difficult to watch a documentary like The New Radical without bringing in your own biases. That’s likely the point, considering the title and the subject matter. It’s supposed to feel alienating and disarming, to make you consider viewpoints that aren’t your own, and certainly to make you a little bit angry and defensive. And […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Bhala Lough, Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson, documentary, Film, The New Radical

Unsung Genius is on Display in Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

November 21, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Hedy Lamarr

In 2017, it’s not unusual to learn about women who have made major advances in science, technology, literature but have never been given the real credit they deserve for it. Rosalind Franklin was almost certainly the person who made the actual discovery of the double helix. Alice Guy’s husband took credit for the movies she […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bombshell, documentary, Film, Hedy Lamarr

Three Billboards and the Exploitation of Black Activism

November 17, 2017 By Nick Hanover 1 Comment

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Around the midway point of Martin McDonagh’s new film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand’s righteously angry Mildred heads to work, only to find a post-it note on the door from her co-worker Denise (Amanda Warren) reading “I’ve been arrested :(” Mildred is immediately aware that Denise’s arrest is because of Mildred’s war against the […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Film, Frances McDormand, Martin McDonagh, Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Woody Harrelson

Pop Rehabilitation: Jawbreaker

August 31, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover revisits Darren Stein’s underappreciated 1999 flop Jawbreaker, which he argues was a far more representative teen film experience than its more successful peers and successors. […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Carol Kane, Darren Stein, Film, Jawbreaker, Judy Greer, melodrama, Pam Grier, Pop Rehabilitation, Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowan

Patti Cake$, Brigsby Bear, Logan Lucky and the New Sincerity in Film

August 24, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Patti Cake$

Out in the real world of 2017, the dominant theme might be “destroy everything,” yet a number of indie films this year have offered a much needed reprieve from that by focusing on sincere stories about escape through creation. These films don’t shy away from depicting the trauma and fear of the real world- it […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adam Driver, Baby Driver, Bridgett Everett, Brigsby Bear, Channing Tatum, Danielle Macdonald, Dave McCary, Film, Geremy Jasper, Jim Jarmusch, Kyle Mooney, Logan Lucky, Paterson, Patti Cake$, steven soderbergh

Dystopic Homesick Blues: Series 7: The Contenders

August 22, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Series 7 The Contenders

Because the world is always a mess, we’ve decided to look back at dystopic works and examine why they remain so potent no matter how many years have passed between their creation and now. This week’s installment is on Daniel Minahan’s Series 7: The Contenders and its warning that the media’s commodification of white rage and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Daniel Minahan, Dystopic Homesick Blues, Film, Series 7: The Contenders

Visual Domination: Angelina Jolie’s Sexual Power in Mr and Mrs. Smith

June 23, 2017 By Ray Sonne Leave a Comment

Angelina Jolie Mr and Mrs Smith

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is always continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” This is because, as John Berger puts it in Ways of Seeing, “to be born a woman has to be born…into the keeping of men.” In male-dominated Hollywood, women’s careers are entirely in the keeping in men. Hollywood, […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: acting, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Film, Mr and Mrs Smith

Pop Rehabilitation: Constantine

June 12, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover makes the case that Constantine is the best film DC has made this century, regardless of how hard they now try to pretend […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Constantine, DC Comics, Film, Francis Lawrence, Keanu Reeves, Peter Stormare, Pop Rehabilitation, Rachel Weisz, Shia Labeouf, Vertigo comics

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