The Police Tried to Re-Invent the Concept of a “World Tour” in 1980
Longtime fans of the Police should view the CD that comes with The Police Around the World set as an indispensable addition to their collections.
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In ‘Certain Women’, Class-Based Identities Are Contended with Under Montana’s Vast Icy Skies
A minor masterpiece, Certain Women is a profound meditation on the ways people temporarily buoy themselves from life's banalities, injustices, and disappointments.
B-Film as Theory: ‘The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind’
Two blasts of existentialist disquiet and hallucination from the stable of Roger Corman, these two Westerns launched the career of a major alternative filmmaker in Monte Hellman.
The Bully at the Pulpit: ‘Elmer Gantry’
Richard Brooks's adaptation of Elmer Gantry lives and dies on Burt Lancaster's strangest, most unforgettable performance.
Can You Survive if You’re Not a Monster in ‘Hannibal: The Complete Second Season’?
The landmark horror series steps away from crime procedurals and deeper into its inimitable sense of style in a triumphant sophomore year.
A Little Ominous Noir Music Makes Jules Dassin’s ‘Rifif’ Nearly Perfect
This benchmark of the heist genre shows that for the criminal, elegance and brutality go hand-in-hand, never more vividly depicted than in this tightly structured ode to Paris.