8 years ago
All posts by Katherine Kilkenny
Knowing “Alan Partridge”: The British DJ’s Big-Screen Debut Forgets What He’s All About
You could say Alan Partridge was made for the Internet Age. The British comedy persona, a disc jockey from Norfolk and disastrous one-time BBC chat presenter, is a real new media junkie. Pushing sixty at this point, Partridge has relaunched himself on the late...
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Winslet, Women and the Regressive Politics of ‘Labor Day’
What the hell was Jason Reitman thinking? To read the reviews of Labor Day, Reitman’s fifth film, is to be forced to ponder the question at length. Reitman has taken a rambling detour off the path of becoming auteur to film’s most sardonic characters this side...
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