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Celebrate Pet Sounds’ 60th with a DIY Beach Boys Film Fest

May 13, 2026May 13, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1960s music, ABC television, Al Jardine, American dream, American pop culture, artistic genius, Beach Boys legacy, Brian Wilson, California music, Carl Wilson, celebrity biopics, Charles Manson, classic rock, contemporary documentaries, cultural criticism, David Leaf, David Marks, Dennis Wilson, Disney documentaries, documentary films, Don Was, dysfunctional families, Elizabeth Banks, entertainment journalism, Eugene Landy, film criticism, God Only Knows, harmony vocals, Hawthorne California, iconic albums, John Cusack, Love and Mercy, mental illness and creativity, Mike Love, music biopics, music documentaries, music fandom, music journalism, music streaming, nostalgia, old Hollywood, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Pet Sounds, pop music history, Psychological Drama, rock and roll history, rock history, rock music, singer songwriters, Sloop John B, Smile album, streaming movies, surf rock, television miniseries, The Beach Boys, Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Here are the docs and biopics that will bring you ‘Good Vibrations’

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When Bribery in Small Town Alabama Looks Like America

January 19, 2026January 25, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments American dream, American institutions, Americana, class, college football, corruption, family dynamics, race, Southern culture, sports satire

In ‘Signing Tony Raymond,’ a special-teams coach brings a bag of bribe money: hilarity ensues

‘An American Tragedy’ at 100

December 17, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments A Place in the Sun, American dream, American literature, An American Tragedy, classic novels, literary anniversaries, social realism, Theodore Dreiser, true crime inspiration

A novel of Dostoyevskian scope examines a social dynamic baked into the present no less than the world of 1925

Looking Back at Histories of Violence

November 8, 2025November 9, 2025 Matt Hanson 3 Comments A History of Violence, American dream, American identity, body horror, Canadian directors, cinema violence, Criterion Collection, David Cronenberg, Ed Harris, Maria Bello, masculinity, Sam Peckinpah, small-town America, Straw Dogs, Viggo Mortensen, violence in film

David Cronenberg’s twisted look at All-American normalcy gets the Criterion rollout

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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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