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A lot can change in ten years, including the culture we think is good.
Episode seven Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a.
(RIP, the A.V.
Club local editions!).
I get it now, and Im sorry, Kesha.
He loved it, of course.
But something aboutWalking With Dinosaurshit himhard; he was a tearful wreck by the end.
And I started to see the movie with new eyes.
I started to warm to the film.
He resembled something like a less flashy, more sensitive James Franco cosplaying as Riff-Raff inSpring Breakers.
(Eminem and the Beasties Boys, by comparison, were much better at this conversation.)
To Posty and a lot of other 24-year-olds, genre-mixing comes naturally.
Luckily, some things havent changed: Hes still got his Bud Light andcharm.
Dee Lockett
Smash
When I first watchedSmash, I thought it was terrible.
It was all a mess and I hated it.
But it may just be that I now thinkSmashis actually good.
The Hiltys of the world deserve better, andSmashis a story about how they deserve better.
As I wrote then, I found it to be dazzling but emotionally inert.
But in rewatching the series over a year later, I found myself more than just enthralled.
I still love Woody Allen, I declared.
Its that in this revelatory era, Allens work itself feels different, leached of its romantic allure.
When you see the magician palming the coin, the thrill is gone.
Lila Shapiro
