I was raised on the music of the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem). My most explicit exposure to the Pogues was through their collaboration with the Dubliners, "The Irish Rover", which was much more rocking than the rebel folk I was used to from that region of the world. The punky slur and rumpled image of Shane MacGowan always stuck with me, but it wasn't until my teens that I would make a full dive into the…
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Monkey Business 1931
The Maurice Chevalier bit is one of the best in all of Marx Brothers recorded history
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Asteroid City 2023
All of Wes Anderson's signature stylings are still present, maybe now more than ever, but the lingual jabs don't break guard the same since Owen Wilson left Anderson's corner. With an aesthetic at its pinnacle, if Wilson would be brought back to co-pen the script, we might get the best Wes Anderson movie yet.
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Spider-Man 2 2004
Spider-Man 2 brings back childhood memories of thumbing through friendly neighborhood back issues at the local comic shop. There were moments throughout the movie when I could nearly smell the pages, thinned and tanned by time, that would tell stories I could buy for a dollar or read in a squat off to the side of the store. Raimi—Maguire is Lee—Ditko on the big screen.
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