Movie Review: AMERICAN FICTION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/15/2023
AMERICAN FICTION movie poster | ©2023 MGM/Orion/Amazon

Rating: R Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Miriam Shor, Adam Brody, Keith David, Okieriete Onaodowan Writer: Cord Jefferson, based on the novel ERASURE by Percival Everett Director: Cord Jefferson Distributor: MGM/Orion/Amazon Release Date: December 15, 2023 AMERICAN FICTION tackles some tangled subject matter with admirable wit and restraint. Based on the book ERASURE by Percival Everett, AMERICAN FICTION examines who gets to write what, why they write it, and how it’s decided what gets marketed. There are also a lot of family dynamics at play, […]Read On »


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CD Review: Erasure – TOMORROW’S WORLD

By CARL CORTEZ 11/02/2011
Erasure - TOMORROW'S WORLD | ©2011 Mute Records

Distributor: Mute Suggested Retail Price: $13.88 It’s amazing that Vince Clarke has been a part of not one, but three ground-breaking bands and all within the span of five years in the early 1980s. First, he jump-started Depeche Mode being one of the primary songwriters for that band’s exceptional debut SPEAK & SPELL providing such memorable tracks as “Just Can’t Get Enough”, “Dreaming of Me” and “New Life” Leaving after the release of that ground-breaking first album, Clarke then formed a partnership with singer Alison Moyet with Yaz (known as Yazoo in the U.K.). The two albums they put out […]Read On »


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Single Review: Erasure – “When I Start To (Break It All Down)”

By CARL CORTEZ 08/31/2011
Erasure single - "When I Start To (Break it All Down)" | ©2011 Mute Records

Distributor: Mute Records Release Date: August 30, 2011 While many modern pop artists look to the 1980s for inspiration (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, The Killers, etc), the artists that were part of defining that decade (and are still viable artists) are few and far between. There are the warhorses (Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, etc.), but groups amazing, ahead-of-their-time groups like Depeche Mode and Erasure forged through their electronic-infused work throughout the 1990s and the 2000s with their musical integrity intact and a constant forward momentum. I’d say Depeche Mode has experimented the most in this time, but the Erasure duo of […]Read On »


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