I recently saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Twice. (Don’t judge my ways.) The first time was at The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California with my group of friends.…
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By Jonty Tiplady Bowie, Rickman, Rivette. ‘We’re losing them all’, Masha Tupitsyn emails me, in one of those quick messages that accumulate like lightning dabs when someone disappears, when you are…
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Needle Drop-Outs (Or The Decline of Film Soundtracks)
by Guest Contributor January 14, 2016In a recent conversation with friends concerning the best-selling albums of all time, something struck me as a bit odd. Beyond the Dark Sides and Thrillers of suburban ineptitude sat…
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2015 has been a big year for television. While some long running shows came to a close, like Mad Men and Parks & Recreation, Netflix threw down so many new shows that…
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1.) Crimson Peak Crimson Peak, the 2015 gothic horror film by Guillermo del Toro, is an absolute delight. It’s moody in that singular del Toro fashion, heavy on ooze and…
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“The Sound” MARK EHLING is a person on Earth. He is the author of River Dead of Minneapolis Scavenged by Teenagers, a book of short stories, monologues, and dialogues in comics…
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I’ve never wanted to outwardly define Penny-Ante beyond the obvious: “Penny-Ante is a book publisher and an art-based project company.” It’s fairly simple. The press acts in earnest to develop projects we feel deserve an audience. I don’t think a further directive would do any service to the authors. All our authors are independent thinkers and unique personalities who speak boldly for their oeuvre; one of many reasons the press serves their efforts.
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Something new for the new year. On my site I made a bunch of resolutions, but the important one, with regard to this, has to do with me watching a film…
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Are We Latino: Memories of My Overdevelopment
by Guest Contributor September 29, 20141 I want to begin by unpacking a fixed idea about transnational movement and influence. We tend to think about global influence as moving from the United States outwards. In…
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Night Moves is a movie by director Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt is probably one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary American film. Her films take up the American West as…
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For those of us in our 20s and 30s, the death of Robin Williams felt like the death of a childhood. In the city of Los Angeles, where I reside,…