For the architect or urban designer, comparisons of Las Vegas with others of the world’s “pleasure zones” – […]
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Las Vegas looks like Myrtle Beach if the sandblasted and tacky South Carolina vacation town were relocated to […]
Being a devoted Coen brothers fan is easy. I’ve been enjoying their work since Blood Simple and Miller’s […]
I have generally tried to stay away from Todd Solondz’s films, for much the same reason that I […]
Finally, finally, finally I had found the thing: film school. I would be a filmmaker. It would be […]
Whenever friends visit my temporary home of sunny San Diego, they marvel at the weather and incredulously ask […]
In John Sayles’s 1996 classic Lone Star, the filmmaker/essayist included a scene between two older, romantically involved military […]
Whatever one thinks of President Obama’s recent comments on immigration policy, for the past two decades, the controversy […]