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Don’t blurb me, bro
This is an excerpt from the radio show Our Metropolis, a half-hour issues and affairs program that airs Tuesdays at 6 p.m. on KUNV 91.5-FM and is hosted by the Greenspun Media Group’s John Katsilometes. Tune in next week to hear the rest of this interview with Las Vegas Weekly contributing editor and film critic Josh Bell: Read more...
Goliath
The nameless hero of Goliath is having a bad week. He’s getting divorced, a convicted sex offender just moved into his neighborhood, his job has reassigned him to a department where his co-workers call him “bitch tits,” and his cat (the film’s namesake) has run away. This is a man on the verge of a breakdown, but he’s not quite there yet. Read more...
The Wackness
By Josh Bell
Set for no apparent reason in 1994, Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness at first comes off like a calculated exercise in nostalgia, full of forced period details (Nintendo Game Boys, Reebok Pumps, references to 90210) that add nothing to the story and serve only to remind viewers who were teens in 1994 that, hey, you used to think this stuff was cool. Read more...
Momma’s Man
Mark Twain once said that it’s a pity that the best part of life comes at the beginning and the worst part at the end. In youth, we’re too inexperienced to appreciate the unconditional care offered by a parent and the freedom from responsibility that allows us to simply sit around and waste time. Read more...
The man behind Mouse
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
In 1995, Don Cheadle gave one of those once-in-a-lifetime performances that made him a star—almost. His hair-trigger performance as Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress had critics buzzing. Read more...
I, Caan
By Tony Macklin
“What is an icon?” James Caan doesn’t know, and he’s about to become one. Caan is receiving the Vegas Icon Award from CineVegas, and he’s perplexed. Read more...
The Cool School
Los Angeles in the ’50s provided no cultural support or art scene to speak of, so from jazz, surfing, custom-car culture and Barney’s Beanery residents shaped their own, from the ground up. Read more...
The Juche Idea
By T.R. Witcher
Jim Finn’s strange new film plays as a sort of mockumentary about a South Korean activist (Lee) who joins an artists’ commune in North Korea, where she spends her days doing farm work and making revolutionary propaganda films based on, and in accordance with, Juche, that country’s state ideology. Read more...
