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Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar channel Jack Kerouac’s thesis
I remember my first experience with Jack Kerouac. I was on a classic literature binge; the more risqué, the better. I was in the midst of reading everything I could afford with my mangled selection of bills and picked up a copy of On the Road. All I knew about the ...
‘The Revenant’ punishes DiCaprio for Academy love
Without spoiling whether survivalist/tempting-bear-treat Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) survives The Revenant, we can still talk about one climactic shot. DiCaprio, having been maimed in...
‘Fish Tank’ has same strains of ‘Precious’
LOS ANGELES — Mia is 15, all elbows and anger, going at her life in a rundown apartment complex in Essex as if it were one long skirmish in British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's exceptionally well-crafted drama, "Fish Tank...
Out of the past
Mamma Roma has paid her dues and done her time. For nearly 30 years, she walked the sweaty streets of Rome, turning tricks and...
On her own terms
Amy Schumer tries everything. Especially when it comes to shooting a one-night stand for her movie...
Mary, Mary, what you going to name that pretty little baby?
The infamous Beale Street belongs to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, but every city has a Beale Street. So claimed writer James Baldwin, born...
Bon appétit
It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a...
Three came back
Hollywood Producer Samuel Goldwyn said it straight: “I don’t care if the film doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it...
BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Trash Dance’
Texas choreographer Allison Orr does things the hard way. And as viewers of filmmaker Andrew Garrison’s Trash Dance will come to appreciate, the whole world is a better place because of her seeming lack of common sense...
