No matter, really; I loved it all the same, so much so that I wish it had birthed a series of big-screen outings. (Instead, the idea eventually was rejiggered (sort of) into the long-running Efrem Zimbalist TV show, The FBI, and that doesn’t count.) Directed by Leslie H. Martinson (1966’s Batman: The Movie), the black-and-white, […]
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This Is 40
Opening Friday, This Is 40 tickles the travails of being rich, white and smug. Maybe a grown-up comedy isn’t in the cards for Apatow, whose best works (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) celebrate arrested adolescence. His latest is a generally messy affair: often uproariously funny, but uneven, overlong, largely improvisational, packed with F-bombs and hobbled […]
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The Indie Rock Poster Book — Yellow Bird Project and Andy J. Miller
Starting with T-shirts designed by indie-rock bands, then moving on to the “Indie Rock Coloring Book” and now with “The Indie Rock Poster Book,” this project has been nothing but awesome. The project this time is beyond cool: YBP has enlisted 30 visual artists from around the globe to create visual interpretations of 30 indie-rock […]