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Spectrum Check

Dan Seeger

This week, I reviewed a new film that stars John Hawkes as artist Stan Herd. Hawkes is good as always; the movie has some issues. I also contributed an entry to this week’s List Inconsequential, which focused on the best film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s works. The super-secret, DVD commentary track backstory on this one is that it was initially intended to be the best and the worst of Shakespeare adaptations, but everyone wanted to write about their favorites. I’ve actually had a hard time thinking of a film bad enough to be singled out for the that sort of … Continue reading Spectrum Check

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Spectrum Check

Dan Seeger

This week, I tried to satisfy my household’s penchant for films that traffic in monsters and gore by reviewing Stake Land. As is often the case when dealing with this sort of genre fare, it was ultimately disappointing, the promising, inventive elements ultimately unable to outweigh the portions of the film that were pure retread. I’m still longing for that amazing discovery moment that comes from watching something Ti West’s The House of the Devil. I also reviewed the new album from Vivian Girls, which was a little odd having already worked with the band as performers who played at … Continue reading Spectrum Check

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Spectrum Check

Dan Seeger

This week, I fulfilled my primary film criticism duties by writing about a nice feature debut by Zeina Durra. It’s one of those films that’s good enough to immediately stir up interest over what she does next. On the other end of the film quality scale, I wrote about a favorite bad movie that is the pure definition of “Guilty Pleasure” to me. Everyone seemed to especially enjoy the opening paragraph. I also had a music review go up. I faced the always tricky challenge of writing about something that didn’t particular move me one way or the other. So … Continue reading Spectrum Check

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One for Friday: Close Lobsters, “Let’s Make Some Plans”

Dan Seeger

Close Lobsters is a band that was always part of my college radio experience. I can’t recall how I found them in the first place, I have no stories about revelatory moments playing their music and I never had a connection to them beyond the couple of releases that were nestled into the music library at 90FM. I believe I know more about them now, after researching a brief blurb written for last week’s College Countdown post than I ever knew during the days when I regularly shared their songs with the central Wisconsin listening public (and make no mistake, … Continue reading One for Friday: Close Lobsters, “Let’s Make Some Plans”