Well, if anybody down here was gonna get superpowers, this is the lady you would want. Dr. Redacted is kind, selfless, and incorruptible. Questions about how it all works are so, so not my area. Fl...

"Ingenious and poetic." "Apeshit hilarious." " . . . you'll find your adventurous rewarded tenfold." Does it sound like I didn't like the movie? No star system here, MonkeyErotica. You gotta rea...

Nice work as always, Mr. Buckwalter. Did you see Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia from 2006? It's grandly, memorably, laughably awful, but I think Fiona Shaw's performance in that film proves she ca...

. . . bears the distinctive stamp of a sort of Capra-esque Americana . . . That's actually how I would describe Dick Donner's 1978 Superman. Pointing out Brando's big payday for a small role -- al...

No love for New Orleans's Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Wolf Trap tonight?...

I asked Ira about the move. He said the reason was that in order to work on the TV and radio shows simultaneously, they had to be in New York. He also said he didn't believe the change in locales ha...

TAL definitely does tend to re-use the same music over and over, but I have no idea where you're coming from vis a vis "50s elevator, lounge, and skating rink music." The cues I feel like I hear all ...

The TAL live simulcast is being carried at the Ballston Regal Cinemas, among other theatres in Virgina. There are several venues closer to the District than Columbia, MD where you could catch it. I ...

Here's an NPR stream of the NP's 9:30 show from last October, with both Neko and Bejar in attendance. Reading the accounts here, I'm glad I was at that one instead of last night's....

Wow. And I thought I was such a literary pugilist just because now and then I like to head-butt some distracted fool and declaim, "Attention must be paid, Chump!" Verily, your American tragedy-style...

Perhaps the most enduring band in rock and roll? Really, now. Who would the other candidates for that title be? This looks like a great week at the movies. Gonna skip the Warhol (I watched about f...

Aw, come on, Mr. Buckwalter. It's so boring when we agree. I like the Raveonettes, but I thought their 70 minutes felt like 90 or 100 from most other bands. And even though Pretty in Black seems to...

I'm glad it was the sleek Adam West-era Batmobile and not the "Tumbler" -- the Hummer-on-roids that served as the Batmobile in Batman Begins. Though they probably get about the same gas mileage....

I credit the puns with increasing my own interest in the sport by 47 to 53 percent. And the commentators, Diamond Derby Dave and (I think) Suspenser Tracy. They're a bit like Gary Cole and Jason Bat...

"Suited assistant?" Boo, hiss. When I reviewed B.B. a while back, he had a comely young lass in a decidedly form-fitting dress helping him on and offstage. He was a perfect gentleman, of course, bu...

Wilco fans -- short? I reviewed the first of the two 9:30 shows, and I had to spend a lot of it on my tiptoes. And I'm 6'1"! ...

This was my first time seeing hearing Patti perform. I thought about checking out her 9:30 show at the end of December but I can't conceive of that gig possibly topping this very different, very intim...

This was my first time seeing hearing Patti perform. I thought about checking out her 9:30 show at the end of December but I can't conceive of that gig possibly topping this very different, very intim...

Ah, finally I get to see The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Opposite the Super Bowl, no less. I'll probably have the auditorium all to myself. As for Diva, maybe I'll try to catch that a...

Um. Chris. I believe the term you used was "wee, short little dude." A tad different than calling someone short. No? You just sound like someone on the playground who is over average height and feels ...