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A friend and I were chatting last week about singers and songwriters who’ve managed to change and adapt, aging gracefully while writing relevantly. James Taylor is one. Sting is another. The Eagles and R.E.M. also come to mind, as does Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. One name that definitely did not come up…

Lewis Black has founded his comedy career on his eruptions of screaming: the irrational outbursts of a rational man in a world gone mad. Religion is rich territory for his kind of humor, and as the title of his Comedy Central show, “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil,” indicates, he has a penchant for cosmic…

There are a lot of love songs out there. Some of them I love, no matter what my romantic status. And others make you want to re-enact all those scenes you see in movies, when the protagonist looks at himself in the mirror and is filled with such self-loathing that he punches the mirror and…

Someday someone will make the Christian “Spinal Tap,” a brilliant satire of the Christian rock world. Until then, it’s worth checking out “Jesus People,” airing on the web-based Independent Comedy Channel. The mockumentary, about the founding of a Christian dance troupe by the bluff, super-friendly Pastor Jerry, a megachurch pastor and Christian diet-book author, is…

Watch a video clip from the new documentary, “Storm Over Everest,” coming to PBS on May 13. The film tells the story of the 1996 blizzard that hit Mount Everest, trapping three climbing teams and killing eight climbers. Filmmaker David Breashears was on the mountain during the blizzard and helped assist survivors to safety. He…

I can remember being somewhat overwhelmed with the amount of attention given to the big screen adaptation of “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and I didn’t think it quite lived up to the hype. But I have to admit my anticipation is building for the Narnia sequel “Prince Caspian,” which…

This week at the Tribeca Film Festival, I attended the premiere of Canadian filmmaker Joe Balass’ short film, “Baghdad Twist.” The movie tells the story of Balass’ family, Iraqi Jews who were forced to leave the country after the revolution in 1967. The film, described as a “visual memoir,” combines family photographs, a super 8…

Watch a clip from the new movie “Iron Man,” which hits theaters Friday, May 2. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as the famous super hero, as well as Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow. embedVideo(1529427205);

How does a journalist become a part of a story that he is covering? I first met filmmaker Nina Paley in 2005 when she and some of her friends were hosting an animation party on the roof top of her Brooklyn apartment building. Paley had a short film that was a feminist take on the…

I’ve watched J.J. Abrams’s “Lost” from the very beginning just as faithfully as other devotees. But I have to call it like I see it: the show has deteriorated into a mess of too many plotlines, too many time zones, and too many wrong turns. It’s lost its compass, so to speak. One thing that…
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