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Published in GEN

·Dec 13, 2019

How Adam McKay Turned Post-Recession Anger Into Entertainment

The writer and director of goofball comedies took a serious turn over the past decade and hasn’t looked back — This piece is part of The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. Toward the end of Vice, Adam McKay’s 2018 biopic about the rise of Dick Cheney and his shadow presidency during the George W. Bush years, Christian Bale, nearly unrecognizable as the former…

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How Adam McKay Turned Post-Recession Anger Into Entertainment
How Adam McKay Turned Post-Recession Anger Into Entertainment

Published in The Hairpin

·Dec 12, 2016

‘The Love Witch’ Is the Greatest Movie Ever Made

So why haven’t you seen it yet? — There is one cure for the rightful ennui of these troubled times, and that is going out to the nearest movie theater screening The Love Witch and luxuriating in every 35 mm frame of cinema as it unfurls. …

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‘The Love Witch’ Is the Greatest Movie Ever Made
‘The Love Witch’ Is the Greatest Movie Ever Made

Dec 22, 2015

2015: Hold Them, Fold Them, Etc.

Since I was a kid spending hours at the magazine stand, I have always, always been in love with year-end issues. I think it’s because of the idea that we can place a narrative over a chunk of time; some lessons have been learned, some fights won, some fights lost…

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2015: Hold Them, Fold Them, Etc.
2015: Hold Them, Fold Them, Etc.
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