Something for the Pain
December 31, 2015
Funny how the vodka looks like water, and baking powder looks just like cocaine. If the time has come to lead me to the slaughter Honey, I need something for the pain. I take comfort in the King James Bible; …
Charlott Rampling and Andrew Haigh raid Criterion’s closet
December 24, 2015
English director Andrew Haigh visited Criterion for a screening of his new film, 45 YEARS, and he was joined by his movie’s star, the exquisite Charlotte Rampling. The film, based on a short story by David Constantine, presents a quietly …
Charlie Hustle’s Last Stand
December 17, 2015
By Paul Bown BDA Sports Editor emeritus Two days ago, Robert D. Manfred Jr., the Commissioner of Baseball, went up and in on the matter of Peter Edwin Rose’s application for removal from baseball’s Permanently Ineligible List. As virtually any …
Southern Critics choose Spotlight
December 14, 2015
Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s journalism procedural that explores the Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the systematic coverup of widespread child molestation within the Catholic Church, has been named the best movie …
Sinatra at 100
December 13, 2015
In one sense, Sinatra is always with us, like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, one of those pneumatic American icons floating over the cultural landscape like a cloud. We can see what we want to in them; if we stare …
Coming soon: The President Next Door
December 2, 2015
Ahem, attention. The new book should be ought before Christmas. Budget according. That is all, for now.