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Film review: A Serious Man
19 November 2009 2:20 PM, PST
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Deftly balancing bright comedy and bitter darkness, the Coens have come up with another uncomfortable masterpiece about a fraternal duo
Joel and Ethan Coen have bookended the decade with a superb film at the very beginning, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), and another two stormers at the end: their superlative adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men in 2007 – and now this sublimely funny, involving, utterly distinctive serio-comedy of mid-life crisis set in the American midwest in the 1960s, which happens to be where and when the Coen brothers themselves were brought up.
The Broadway actor Michael Stuhlbarg gets his big-screen break playing Larry Gopnik, a professor of theoretical physics whose life reaches a menopausal climacteric in mysterious tandem with his son's approaching barmitzvah and the astonishing announcement from his wife (Sari Lennick) that their marriage is over. She now wishes to divorce and to marry their supercilious acquaintance Sy Ableman,
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Robert Crumb Thinks God Might Actually Be Crazy
22 October 2009 9:57 PM, PDT
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Like a lot of a kids who grew up during the 70s and 80s, I read Robert Crumb’s comics for the tits. The women he drew, with their badunkadunk asses and nipples the size of baby fists, were somehow more titillating than the pictures of actual flesh-and-blood women published in nudie magazines. And while there may’ve been better-written and more sharply satirical comics, only Crumb could draw the sexual exploits of an anthropomorphic cat and make it crackle with genuine eroticism.
Crumb's latest collection, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, is a literal rendering of that Old Testament classic—including the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the incest high jinks you half-remember from Bible class. In true Crumb form, there are plenty of creepily sexy moments, like Onan diddling his brother's wife, Lot getting drunk-raped by his own daughters, and
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Modern Gentlemen #2 (Comic Review)
15 July 2009 7:34 PM, PDT
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Modern Gentlemen #2’s pages are overflowing with erections, dead porn stars, spiteful fish, horny psychopaths, gore, breasts, bullies, talking turds, and yes-- Kurt Russell. Modern Gentlemen #2 is like a bad dream during a bad acid trip; but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Modern Gentlemen is a Pleasant Productions comic book out of Melbourne, Australia that is extraordinarily depraved but easily enjoyable for anyone with an offbeat sense of humor. It’s basically a compilation of short comics from various writers and artists. The longest, titled: Donkey Punch Disco In… Fuckheads In Space runs about 11 pages long.
The Night Robert Crumb Visited Me In A Dream And Taught Me Important Lessons About Life pretty much sums up the warped ideologies taking place in Modern Gentlemen. In it, Robert Crumb lends his counsel to a perplexed young man who seems to be having doubts about the comic business. Crumb goes
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