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UPDATE: Steven Greydanus’s review of The Muppets has arrived, and it’s excellent. It’s also one of the 43 (currently) reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, all of which are positive.

EARLIER:

I’m working on my review of The Muppets.

In the meantime, you can check out the raves pouring in at Rotten Tomatoes: 23 reviews at this point, and they’re all positive.

Some reviews are written by critics who really appreciate what makes this film special. Drew at Hitfix has seen the movie, and he writes this… (more…)

It was 20 years ago this weekend that U2′s Achtung Baby landed in music stores like something from another planet.

I was assigned to listen to the album and turn in a music review the next day to The Falcon, the student newspaper at Seattle Pacific University. So I joined the line of U2 fans at Tower Records for the midnight album release. Then I rushed back to my dorm, put on my headphones, and listened to the album four times through. It turned in my review at 4 a.m. and then slept a couple of hours before my first class of the day.

I found that review in a file folder tonight, and read it again. I’m surprised. I agree with almost everything that that 21-year-old wrote.

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My review of Martha Marcy May Marlene is up at Good Letters, the blog for Image journal.

Here’s the breaking news about Movieguide…

And here’s a link to my recent post that should be more than sufficient in explaining why this is awful news. (more…)

Put all memories of those lousy new Snow White film trailers behind you. It’s time to get excited about something with real promise… (more…)

A nostalgic sort of dream of being a pop star in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. It’s a sweet kind of album and I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know what compelled me to make it. It’s probably a bad idea, but everytime I listen to what I’ve done, it makes me really happy. So I figure, that must mean something and I should go ahead and put it out there.

That’s Sam Phillips… (more…)

Rumors have been rumbling, and now Twitch seems to be confident: Steven Spielberg appears to be in talks with Warner Brothers to direct a film about the life of Moses.

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It’s a good day for Tom Wilkinson, a talented photographer and a dear friend. His Kickstarter project has reached its goal! (more…)

You can listen to the new Kate Bush album before it’s released, free of charge, thanks to NPR.
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While patient fans of Sixpence None the Richer keep checking to see if the band’s new album has a release date, lo… an almost-Christmas miracle!
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