The Picture Show

Apocalyptic Vision

by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on Jan 18, 2011 | No Comments

True Grit, the new Western from the Coen Brothers, opens with a quote from the Book of Proverbs: “The wicked flee when none pursueth.” [...]

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Free Your Mind

by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on Jan 03, 2011 | No Comments

Last summer a record label, Recession Recordings, was born that spit in the face of everything a record label does. Not only did it [...]

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The Octopus Show

by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on Dec 06, 2010 | No Comments

In the world of popular music, there may be no harder tightrope to walk than the one between experimentalism and mass appeal. The two [...]

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Fist Jazz

by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on Nov 22, 2010 | No Comments

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote that boxing is “the drama of life in the flesh.” Ernest Hemingway famously said, “My writing is nothing. My [...]

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Making of a Myth

by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on Nov 08, 2010 | No Comments

While first-time director John Wayne was shooting The Alamo in 1959, he received an uninvited guest on his set near Brackettville, Texas. It was [...]

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