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22-05-2025 Vol 19

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Remembering Jan Dawson, My Mother-in-Law (Twice)

Ours is an extended family with a lot of tragedy in it, but Jan Dawson’s was unique. Jan was the…

The Unloved, Part 136: Ironweed

This week, my friend Bridget Mallon passed away in her sleep at the age of 34. The country’s been going…

Big Blocks of Fun: A Minecraft Movie

“A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of…

The Unloved, Part 135: Adoration

The untempered version of world events right now: Things are not getting better. There’s no opposition coming, there’s no reckoning on…

SXSW Film Festival 2025: One More Shot, Mermaid, Sweetness

A lot of films have tried to do their own version of the plot of 1993’s “Groundhog Day,” the first…

The Unloved, Part 134: A Dandy in Aspic

Last month, I released my third book, “The Black Book: An Anthony Mann Reader.” (You can order your copy here.)…

Red Meat: Steak ‘n Shake Goes Nazi

“Steak ‘n Shake has gone Nazi” isn’t a sentence I ever expected to see, much less type. But here we…