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Review: The Card Counter (2021)
written and directed by Paul Schrader
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George C. Scott
Review: Hardcore (1979)
written and directed by Paul Schrader
Michael York
Review: Logan's Run (1976)
Bad choices and bad editing mar this sci-fi film of the 70s
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Review: Appropriate Behavior (2014)
Directed and co-written by Desiree Akhavan
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Review: 'They Cloned Tyrone' (2023) and 'Network' (1976)
This summer's blaxploitation satire and 1976's Oscar-winning satire have more in common than you'd expect
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Kathy Acker, Clarion of Entropy
Published 15 December 1997 on the now-defunct website Other Rooms. A reflection. Kathy Acker, who died November 30 [1997] of cancer at age 53, wrote about sex, the body and a sort of ecstatic despair like no other female author of our day. Throughout her career, she confounded the expectations
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Stephanie Kulick, 1968–1999
I knew Stephanie Kulick from about 1990, when I met her in the Queer Nation bisexual focus group, to 1999. During that time we were lovers for several years. In March, 1999, she died in a car crash in rural Arizona. Her wake a month later was attended by more
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The Endless War
America has spent nearly $5 trillion on wars since 9/11 — New York magazine, 14 Sep 2017 Many people remember the account from George Orwell’s 1984 which describes an endless war between Oceania and the two other world powers, a war which motivates and provides the justification for everything
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What I Learned About Resistance in the Street Patrol
It was 1991, and we wanted to stop gay bashing. The author (far left) and other members of the Street Patrol training in San Francisco, 1991. Photo: Michiijo Eto. What to do, what to do. It’s been a couple of weeks since the election of the orange clown and
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The New VP
Excerpt from an unpublished novel