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Music Review: Jesse Terry – ‘Arcadia’
The seventh studio album from Jesse Terry bubbles with hooky heartland rock, country rockers, and poetic folk-rock.
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This film proves that even an extremely common, and perhaps overdone, horror premise can still deliver a powerful story.
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Reviews of an expanded edition of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe, plus Mike Montrey Band, Kevin Gordon, Rebecca Frazier, Guy Davis, and Mac Leaphart
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Reviews: Land Struggles in ‘Harvest,’ ‘No Other Land’
Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.
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Hoping for redemption through forgiveness, a white convict tries to convince his victim's sister he's no longer the man who beat her brother to death in a racist rage.
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Based on Jan T. Gross' 'Neighbors,' Tadeusz Slobodzianek's 'Our Class' chronicles the destiny of 10 classmates over a period of 80 years.
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A new Gerry and the Pacemakers anthology collects all their hit singles (some in both stereo and mono) plus a 1964 California concert, an EP, and lots of album tracks.
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Players gain captivating new directions for play as they battle to achieve glory.
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Jerry Phillips, the son of legendary Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, grew up rubbing shoulders with icons such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. Yet it is only now, at age 75, that he has gotten around to releasing an album of his own.
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