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42nd Street Forever: Blu-ray Edition

That adds up to nearly four hours of absolutely outrageous ads. Trust me: Whether you watch in a single sitting or several, it’s a real car-chasing, cycle-revving, bomb-exploding, fist-punching, karate-chopping, foot-kicking, gun-shooting, knife-throwing, laser-blasting, woman-screaming, race-baiting, acid-pouring, eye-gouging, head-chopping, phallus-castrating, breast-squeezing, bed-writhing, succubus-sucking, wrist-tying, drug-injecting, butt-whipping, panty-ripping, bikini-filling, disco-dancing, jail-busting, snake-attacking, robot-battling, voodoo-pinning, slime-invading, dominatrix-singing, […]

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Patti Smith — Outside Society

But you can easily imagine Smith swaying back and forth for three and a half minutes, plinking on a grand piano Elton John-style, her voice trembling for the punishment she’s soon to inflict with the song’s grand finale. In the liner notes of her forthcoming greatest hits compilation, the songwriter reflects that the track is […]

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Daydream Nation

Now it shares the moniker with a Canadian film that wishes it were as hip and influential. Mind you, the drama isn’t bad — just a well-shot narrative mess. Kat Dennings (the Norah of the cooler-than-thou “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”)  fronts and narrates the proceedings as Caroline Wexler, a high school student who’s moved with […]

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