Weird things happen when the music industry and the movie industry collide. Sometimes through contractual obligation, simple oversight, or sheer negligence, a movie is paired with a song that just isn’t appropriate. This is about a brief six-year trend of weird end-credits songs – songs that just don’t read the room. Thematically, the list could be […]
Comically smoochy end-credits movie ballads (1989-1995) Read More »
What happens when you assume a shared cultural experience, only to discover it doesn’t exist? In 2020, one man’s frustration that his wife did not remember a 90s pop hit triggered one of the most acclaimed podcast episodes ever. The team at Reply All were eventually able to track down the missing song for Tyler
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Sometimes the ephemera around a movie can become more resonant than the film itself. Maybe it’s a promising trailer, or a score that exceeds its source material, or a single scene that momentarily encapsulates how the whole movie could have played out. I spent most of the 1990s and early 2000s as a die-hard Star
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“Always Be Closing.” If there’s a scene everyone remembers from Glengarry Glen Ross, it’s undoubtedly the one where Blake (Alec Baldwin) briefly materialises to terrorise the jaded salesman of Premiere Properties. For my money, this is not the most unsettling scene in James Foley’s 1992 movie. There is a moment that I’m reminded of much
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I’ve visited impressive galleries of all sizes over the years. But none of those collections – not the National Gallery, not the Louvre nor MoMA – delivered an experience as unique and memorable as the gallery I visited in late December 1999. This collection wasn’t open to the general public. It no longer exists. It
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Sam Shepard often seemed more of an American myth than a man. His short, surreal prose pieces both unpack and undermine that frontier persona… “He’s like a Sam Shepard character.” This, somewhat recursively, is how I first heard Sam Shepard described. I knew nothing of his work until I heard theatre critic Mel Gussow explain
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