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‘Rocky’ at 50: ‘Going The Distance’ Chronicles the Making of a Classic Movie

November 10, 2026November 9, 2026 Jon Hart 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Academy Awards, Adrian Balboa, Apollo Creed, Bette Midler, Bill Conti, book reviews, boxing history, boxing movies, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Chuck Wepner, classic Hollywood, Clay Felker, film books, film criticism, film production, Going the Distance, Going the Distance: Stallone Philly and the Story of Rocky, hollywood history, I Play Rocky, independent filmmaking, inspirational movies, Irwin Winkler, Jimmy Gambina, John G. Avildsen, Ken Norton, Los Angeles Sports Arena, low-budget movies, making of Rocky, Mike Sielski, movie nostalgia, Muhammad Ali, nonfiction books, Olympic Auditorium, Oscar-winning movies, Paradise Alley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia cinema, Ray Bradbury, Robert Chartoff, Rocky, Rocky 50th anniversary, Rocky Balboa, Rocky behind the scenes, Rocky film history, Rocky movie, Rocky Steps, Santa Monica, sports biography, sports cinema, sports movies, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, The Lords of Flatbush, The Spectrum, The Steps: A Memoir, underdog stories, United Artists

Philadelphia’s own Mike Sielski goes deep into the roots of Sylvester Stallone’s low-budget masterpiece

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America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

The Grittier Side of Cinema Seattle

February 8, 2026February 7, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1980s cinema, American cities on film, Cinderella Liberty, Colleen Dewhurst, cult movies, David Mamet, Diana Muldaur, documentary film, Eddie Albert, film history, gritty movies, House of Games, independent film, James Caan, John Wayne, McQ, neo noir, pre-gentrification, Scorchy, Seattle, Seattle films, Streetwise, Trouble in Mind, urban noir

No caffè lattes in this part of the Seahawks’ back yard, buddy!

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The Biggest Penis in Porn Is Back From the Dead

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 William Schwartz 1 Comment 1970s cinema, 1980s cinema, adult film industry, American subcultures, Censorship, cultural memory, documentary film, film criticism, film history, John C Holmes, Johnny Wadd, Linda Lovelace, media studies, Pornography, sex and culture, sexual politics, true crime adjacent

Famous as Johnny Wadd, John C. Holmes was weirder than any of his characters

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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