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Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” — A Satire Too Stuck in the Now to Save the Future

February 9, 2026
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The film urges the audience to take action against AI, but it is too symptomatic of today’s paralysis to be of as much help as it would like to be.

Film Review: “Godzilla Minus One” — Much More than a Monster Movie

December 2, 2023
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The heart, intelligence, and the artistry of “Godzilla Minus One” makes it one of the best kaiju films ever made.

Book Review: Niall Ferguson and the Godzilla economy

March 13, 2009
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By Harvey Blume The Economy Cometh Niall Ferguson, “The Ascent of Money,” Penguin Press, 2008 It’s way past time to utter the dread G word about the economy, the G word being “Godzilla.” The economy as we now experience it, is like the monster in the 1998 American remake: it rises from unfathomable depths before…

Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

Film Review: 1930’s “Ingagi” — An Elusive Beast from the Dark Shadows of American Cinema Emerges

March 22, 2021
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In its day, Ingagi raked in the crowds with a promise of weird African animals and “wild” women, and a teasing of bestiality.

Film Review: “Sylvio” and “Tormenting the Hen” at the IFFBoston

April 27, 2017
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The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.

Rock Album Review: Blue Öyster Cult — Still Defying Norms

October 12, 2020
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The record celebrates everything that has made Blue Öyster Cult such an enduring presence — yet it sounds totally in the moment.

Short Fuse Commentary/Review: A Social Problem

May 4, 2011
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I feel like such a nag, but someone ought to be able to point out a 300 lb gorilla in the room when it knuckle walks, glowers and pounds the walls. I will be that very nag and shortly name the ape accordingly. Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the…

Concert Review: moe. is Back!

September 5, 2023
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There was no doubt guitarist Chuck Garvey was already up to the task, sealing the grit and heart necessary to return moe. to jam-bound heights.

Film Review: Was “The Lovers & the Despot” Really Necessary?

September 26, 2016
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Kim Jong-il, then heir to the leadership of North Korea, kidnapped South Korean superstars to beef up the country’s impoverished cinema.

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