I finally caught the BBC import Hustle, about a team of stylish grifters, now being aired in the U.S. on AMC. It’s very good indeed; catch it if you can. It combines the fun aesthetic of the Ocean’s 11 remake and its sequel with the more competent plotting and characterization of con movies like The […]

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I remember how after first discovering the early incarnation of Napster as a college student in the late 90s, I pretty quickly came to realize how limited my musical taste was: Plopped in front of an infinite jukebox, it had taken surprisingly little time to track down pretty much everything I was interested in but […]

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According to this glossary of Shakespearean terms, a malkin (it’s used in

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