Neal Pollack

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Arclight

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The Arclight is Dead. It Didn’t Have to Die.

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, ArcLight, Black Widow, COVID-19, James Bond, Murder On The Orient Express, Tenet, Unhinged, Wes Anderson

Government regulations and a scared media killed it, not the virus

Concrete Cowboy

Idris Elba Rides the North Philly Range in ‘Concrete Cowboy’

April 9, 2021April 14, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Caleb McLaughlin, Concrete Cowboy, Idris Elba, Jharrel Jerome

A subculture comes to life in this Netflix urban melodrama

Film critics

Film Critics are Still Cosplaying the Apocalypse

April 5, 2021April 8, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments COVID-19, Film critics, Godzilla Vs. Kong, Movie theaters

Pretending movie theaters are dangerous places gives them a sense of purpose

The Terrible Reign of Dr. Oz

April 1, 2021April 8, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Aaron Rodgers, Alex Trebek, Dr. Oz, Jeopardy!, Katie Couric, Ken Jennings, Mike Richards, Sanjay Gupta

Jeopardy! contestants go to war with a guest host

George Segal

Actors CREATORS Remembrance

George Segal Dies; Jews of a Certain Age Grieve

March 24, 2021March 30, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Touch of Class, Barbra Streisand, California Split, Carbon Copy, Denzel Washington, Elizabeth Taylor, Elliott Gould, George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Burton, Robert Altman, The Owl and the Pussycat, Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Clips from our most ‘That Guy From Temple’ movie star

Three Days of the Condo

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Anthony Mackie, Bucky Barnes, Don Cheadle, Sam Wilson, Sebastian Stan, The Falcon, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Winter Soldier

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,’ Marvel’s latest not-very-thrilling political thriller

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci Takes a Pandemic Vacation

March 17, 2021March 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 6 Comments

He goes ‘Searching for Italy’ while the rest of us rot in our homes

Oscar

The Alt-Weekly Oscars

March 16, 2021March 20, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Judas and the Black Messiah, Lynda Barry, Mank, Minari, Nomadland, Oscars, Promising Young Woman, The Mandalorian, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Tiger King, WandaVision

This year’s nominated films have a boutique audience of indie people

pandemic

FICTION FILM MUSIC Netflix NON-FICTION Politics Tech TELEVISION

The Things That Got Us Through the Pandemic Year

March 11, 2021March 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments AEW, Animal Crossing, Big Mouth, Bill Burr, Devolution, Dungeons and Dragons, Edward St. Aubyn, Eurovision, Guy Fieri, Hard Life, Jaja Ding Dong, James Tynion, Liam Gallagher, Life on Mars, Liu Cixin, Magnum P.I., Max Brooks, Patrick Melrose, Sault, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Ted Lasso, The Big Goodbye, The Department of Truth, The Good Place, The Mandalorian, The Three Body Problem, Tiger King, Werner Herzog, YouTube

In a tough 12 months, our contributors turned to what they could

WandaVision

‘WandaVision’ Goes Pew Pew

March 9, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Doctor Strange, Family Ties, Malcolm In The Middle, Scarlet Witch, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Vision, WandaVision

Sexy witch costumes and head lasers defeat the avant-garde

Alamo

The Alamo Drafthouse Goes Bankrupt

March 3, 2021March 6, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, COVID-19, Texas

And it’s all your fault

FILM Politics Theater

Update: We’re Still Destroying the Arts

March 2, 2021March 4, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments arts, Austin City Limits, COVID, Hootie and the Blowfish, James Bond, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Post Malone, Theater

For no rational reason

Minari

‘Minari’: the Korean-American Dream

February 26, 2021March 2, 2021 Neal Pollack 3 Comments Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, Steven Yeun, Yuh-Jung Youn

A family starts a farm in Arkansas in the 1980s, in this moving, naturalistic kitchen-sink drama

Muppet Show

Is ‘The Muppet Show’ Racist?

February 24, 2021March 18, 2021 Neal Pollack 5 Comments Debbie Harry, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Jim Henson, Johnny Cash, Julie Andrews, Lena Horne, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Muppet Show, The Swedish Chef

A Disney+ disclaimer creates a cultural uproar

freezing

FILM TELEVISION

Some Great Movies About Freezing Your Ass Off

February 17, 2021February 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Charles Martin Smith, Ciaran Hinds, Dr. Zhivago, Fargo, Frozen, Jack Nicholson, John Carpenter, Leonardo DiCaprio, Never Cry Wolf, Steve Buscemi, The Revenant, The Shining, The Terror, The Thing

We have problems in Texas right now, but at least we don’t have these problems. Or do we?

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