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Philip Martin

ON FILM NLR hosts Warriors’ ‘World Premiere’

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 6, 2009 5:41 a.m.

If you missed the brothers Brent and Craig Renaud’s latest documentary Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing at the recent Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, you’ll have another chance Thursday at its theatrical “World Premiere” at the Lakewood 8 Theater in North Little Rock.
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REVIEW: Paris

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 6, 2009 5:36 a.m.

Overlong and with ambitions of grandeur, Cedric Klapisch’s enjoyable Paris is an attempt at Trollopean social archaeology that’s best received with a shrug and a smile. Just because it isn’t what it’s meant to be doesn’t mean you can’t savor its sun-dappled pictures of the French capital.
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CRITICAL MASS: The untouchable Michael Jackson

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 3, 2009 3:39 a.m.

When Michael Jackson died June 25, a lot of people thought there was an overabundance of media attention given the event and the singer’s subsequent funeral.
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SPIRITS Shaking the roots of terroir theory

By Philip Martin
Posted: November 1, 2009 5:13 a.m.

Wine is not something that can be understood in the manner of Bernoulli’s principle or even Schrodinger’s cat experiment. There is little about it that can be proved and nothing about it to refute the authority of individual taste.
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Dietary choices affect more than health

By PHILIP MARTIN
Posted: November 1, 2009 4:36 a.m.

I don’t really consider it any of your business what I eat, but for the record I’m a carnivore. I don’t eat meat at every meal, or even at most of them, but I enjoy a good rare steak. I like all kinds of meat—hot dogs and chicken and pork loin.
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Michael Jackson spoke best with his moves

By Philip Martin
Posted: October 30, 2009 6:32 a.m.

The worst fears for Kenny Ortega’s This Is It were that it would be exploitative and sad, a cynical attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of Michael Jackson’s derailed career and the desperate comeback attempt that was abrogated by the singer’s death June 25.
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REVIEW A Serious Man

By Philip Martin
Posted: October 30, 2009 3:36 a.m.

In Western popular culture suburbs are so often cast as shrink-wrap for the soul that the idea has become a cliche — all a filmmaker needs to do to convey a sense of banal horror is run a camera down a tidy bourgeois lane lined by wellkept tract houses.
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ON FILM Films are like horses: Slow starts often fatal

By Philip Martin
Posted: October 30, 2009 3:34 a.m.

One thing I hate about the movies is the way every weekend has become a Darwinian battleground, with those films that draw more customers than others surviving to fight another week while the perceived losers are subject to having their studios pull the plug on their promotional budgets.
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CRITICAL MASS: Upgrade makes Sense for Talking Heads film

By Philip Martin
Posted: October 27, 2009 3:35 a.m.

One of modernity’s problems is that we always seem to be faced with the question of whether we ought to replace whatever it is we already own with the new, improved version.
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Forgetting an undervalued blessing

By Philip Martin
Posted: October 25, 2009 3:41 a.m.

You can’t keep all of the past in a backpack or purse all of the time. It’s heavy and what’s worse, it wouldn’t leave room for much else. . .
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