Posts by Kevin Lincoln
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Full Metal Jazz
The war in Damien Chazelle’s ‘Whiplash’ and the making of an exciting new filmmaker.
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Danish Punks Iceage Make the Leap With Their New Album, ‘Plowing Into the Field of Love’
Iceage now looks like our best bet for a truly great rock band in the operatic, champagne-swilling, mean-mugging sense of the word.
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Inherent Hype: The Particular Anticipation Surrounding the New Paul Thomas Anderson Film
It’s impossible to guess what P.T.A. will do with a film visually, narratively, or substantively. His reimaginings have only proven that point: ‘There Will Be Blood’ was an adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s ‘Oil!’ like a 747 is an adaptation of a biplane.
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Celebrating Colin Farrell’s Most ‘True Detective’ Roles
Despite having been saddled with the unfair reputation of being a celebrity before an actor, Farrell’s been excellent before in films that, if they didn’t anticipate his role in True Detective, at least show he’s on that level.
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Adam Driver Is Ready for His Close-up
On the final days of Adam Driver, not-quite-yet movie star.
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A Brief History of Tom Hardy Getting His Ass Kicked
There’s something that separates Hardy from his fellow cohort of neckless thespians. It’s the counterpoint to his bulk, the kernel of his humanity. It’s the thing he has in common with Jared Leto — maybe the only thing he has in common with Jared Leto. He’s constantly getting the shit kicked out of him.
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Six Steps to Perfection: How Robert Pattinson Became Cool
Five years ago, Pattinson was an expressionless Topshop mannequin being paid A-Rod money to brood in the most inscrutable blockbuster franchise of this epoch. Now, he’s one of our most charismatic and promising young actors. How’d he do it? And, more importantly, how can you, young actor, also do it? It only takes six steps.
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The Thankless Life of Caretaker Quarterbacks
Short of winning a Super Bowl, Drew Brees’s eventual exit from San Diego was assured by sheer pragmatics: In the NFL, you do not draft a quarterback in the first round and let him stagnate on the bench for long.
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Why Won’t Jacksonville Let Us Meet the Bortles?
Should Blake Bortles start for Jacksonville? Should America be great? You know the answer to this question in your heart.
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The Day of the Sanchez Has Arrived
For the first time in his NFL career, he’s just a guy. When that comes after five years of being the famous guy, that’s not so bad.
