There is a very stupid and very powerful thing poker movies want us to believe: that sitting at a card table can reveal the truth of a person. This is, of course, nonsense. Poker mostly reveals whether someone can do math while pretending not to sweat. It reveals whether a person has impulse control, whether … Read more
Whenever I review a Yakuza movie coming out on Blu-ray, I often express frustration that the movie hadn’t been released in America during the VHS era. I couldn’t make a long drive to Dave’s Videodrome in Carrboro and check it out for $2. Instead the kids in Japan were digging
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