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Bombast

Bombast: Where Were You in ’82?

By Nick Pinkerton
July 24, 2015
The filth and the fury: a look at hardcore documentaries and the musical scene(s) behind them

Bombast: The Cincinnati Kid

By Nick Pinkerton
July 10, 2015
Reflections upon moviehouses past and present (but mostly past)

Bombast: You Say You Want a Revolution?

By Nick Pinkerton
July 3, 2015
Star-spangled to death: the historical truthiness of the surprisingly small number of movies and TV series set during the Revolutionary War

Bombast: Now That’s What I Call the Nineties

By Nick Pinkerton
June 19, 2015
Nostalgia again for the first time: why movie culture should stop seeking refuge in past mediocrity

Bombast: The Tribe

By Nick Pinkerton
June 5, 2015
Cowboys, Indians, and businessmen: a look at casting and the Apaches' complicated on-screen legacy

Bombast: The List

By Nick Pinkerton
May 29, 2015
A hall of fame with a difference: never mind the stars, what about the tertiary players, background artists, and virtuoso one-off performers of cinema?

Bombast: Truck Yeah

By Nick Pinkerton
May 15, 2015
What's your 20, good buddy? A look at the lawless, unmistakably Western-influenced big-rig genre

Bombast: Pop-Pop-Pop-Popular

By Nick Pinkerton
April 30, 2015
What's underappreciated anymore, anyway? On narratives of taste in film and music

Bombast: Decker

By Nick Pinkerton
April 21, 2015
Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's guileful, green screen satire of cinephile culture and the endless pop culture grist mill

Bombast: D.W. Griffith’s America

By Nick Pinkerton
April 3, 2015
Heart of the country: appraising critical reactions to The Birth of a Nation and the director's other film about rebels