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One of the things I am thankful for is Viewpoints.

Yes, I'm one of the people who was asked in 2006 to be part of the Beta Testing team to launch this site, but I was an outsider... nowhere near the Chicago...

Subject: The Prisoner 2009.  The good news:  AMC's new reboot of the classic, influential Patrick McGoohan series:  The Prisoner is pretty good.  Episodes 1, 2 and 5 are very enjoyable.  Ian McKellen...

 Film Geek is a movie based on an idea that 20 years ago might have made a good 20 minute short movie or SNL comedy sketch.   At 70 minutes, the 'cute' dated idea is stretched way too far and the film's...

Only 2 of the 15 songs on Grown Backwards are opera--well David Byrne's skewed version of opera, with the help of Rufus Wainwright.

Grown Backwards is a pastiche of influences and styles that seem to be...

"You know, I hate to advocate drugs liquor, violence, or insanity to anyone--but in my case it's worked."
-- Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) is a relentlessly anarchistic...

Here are some movie that are sure to bring a tear or two or a whole flood to your eye.  Powerful movies that will make even the most manly of men cry.  No not Fried Green Tomatoes, or even Gone with...