NBR: We’re Beatrice
Nothing speaks to my awards season ennui quite like the early December picks of the mysterious National Board of Review. Nobody knows who these people are or how they spend their daytime hours. The grainy photographic evidence I came up with last year proved inconclusive. This year I have some video footage, but [...]

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“Damnit, Richard Milhous Nixon will not be a part of your little Kevin Bacon game!”
Here’s what’s opening this week in wide release:

Cadillac Records. In the fertile cultural ground between the blues and rock and roll, there was Chicago’s Chess Records. From the straight up blues of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Willie [...]

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