Neal Pollack

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Larry David Kicks COVID to the Curb

December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments COVID-19, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David

The new season is strangely silent on the ultimate social-manners struggle of our time

‘Hawkeye’ Is Marvel’s Christmas Candy

December 3, 2021December 6, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Alaqua Cox, Halle Steinfeld, Hawkeye, Jeremy Renner, Marvel

Delightful family-friendly holiday action fun for all

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The Power of the Dull

December 2, 2021December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Campion, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McFee, News of the World, The Power Of The Dog

A bitter revisionist Western from Jane Campion

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No One Is Talking About The Booker

November 30, 2021December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam, Booker Prize, Damon Galgut, Nathan Harris, No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood, The Promise, The Sweetness of Water

Three more novels in this year’s literary prison sentence

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Honor Thy Tennis Father

November 22, 2021December 1, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments King Richard, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Will Smith

‘King Richard,’ a hagiography of Venus and Serena Williams’s dad

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It’s Not Porn

November 17, 2021November 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Gender Queer, Greg Abbott, Jack of Hearts, Judy Blume, Maya Kobabe

Texas governor Greg Abbott’s actions are all about politics, not protecting kids

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‘All of the Marvels’

November 8, 2021November 11, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments All of the Marvels, Dazzler, Douglas Wolk, Masters of Kung Fu, Spider-Man, X-Men

An audio interview with author Douglas Wolk, who read every single Marvel comic published in the last 60 years

Politics

The Texas Taliban Lowers the Boom

November 4, 2021November 9, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Greg Abbott, Matt Krause, Michael Crichton, Texas, Texas Library Association, Texas State Teachers' Association, Toni Morrison

High-ranking state government officials seek vast censorship powers through intimidation of schools

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How About NOT banning ‘Beloved’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’?

November 1, 2021November 11, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Beloved, Lord of the Flies, Toni Morrison, William Golding

These days, everyone is a censor

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‘Bad Motherfucker’

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bad Motherfucker, Gavin Edwards, Mr. Rogers, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Tom Hanks

A conversation with journalist Gavin Edwards about his great Samuel L. Jackson experiment

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History of the World Part 1 is Getting a Sequel

October 19, 2021November 28, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Airplane!, Cloris Leachman, David Zucker, Dom DeLuise, Gregory Hines, History of the World Part 1, History of the World Part 2, Ike Barinholtz, Madeline Kahn, Nick Kroll

It’s a miracle!

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Overdrive

October 18, 2021October 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Agathe Rouselle, Julia Ducournau, Titane, Vincent Lindon

Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane’, this year’s Palme D’or winner, changes the language of film

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Save Me From the Booker

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments An Island, Damon Galgut, Francis Spufford, Holland House, Karen Jennings, Kate Atkinson, Light Perpetual, Tsitsi Dangarembga

My great literary burden continues

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Foundationally Dull

September 30, 2021October 1, 2021 Neal Pollack 3 Comments Battlestar Galactica, Dark Knight, David S. Goyer, Douglas Adams, Foundation, Game Of Thrones, Isaac Asimov, Jared Harris, Laura Birn, Lee Pace, Star Trek, Terrance Mann

The long-awaited adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s epic project feels like it will go on forever

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Misdeal

September 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment First Reformed, Oscar Isaac, Paul Schrader, The Card Counter, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan

‘The Card Counter’: Paul Schrader’s uneasy mix of torture porn and poker melodrama

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