Sugar - The A.V. Club
April 2, 2024
Los Angeles, now-ish. One of Hollywood’s most famous producers has a “bum ticker” and a missing granddaughter. Luckily, the best finder in town is on the case, all gruff and wry voiceover narration, late-night whiskey in a glass with no rocks, forever tending a battle-wounded conscience while a mournful sax purrs.
Was Tony Sirico One of the Best Comedic Presences of Our Time? - The A.V. Club
January 25, 2024
Just don’t call him a bully.
Columbus to Moltisanti: A Tale of Two Christophers - The A.V. Club
October 5, 2023
September 2002. America reels from the existential dread of the first anniversary of 9/11, My Big Fat Greek Wedding reigns supreme at the box office, and “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback is coasting to become Billboard’s most played song of the year. Perhaps Uncle Junior was right, when urged to take medication to help his memory: “There’s plenty I’d like to forget.”
The 10 Best Needle Drops of The Bear Season 2 - The A.V. Club
July 3, 2023
Fak really loves the Replacements. You can tell if you catch him in the background of episode five, if you strain to hear him, his vocals buried in the mix like it’s All Things Must Pass as he chats the electrician’s ear off. He’s like the kid in the back of the classroom with a booklet of Sharpie-ed CD-Rs, talking with his hands and desperate to have his opinions—which are his feelings, who he really is—heard. Validated. The kind today that would have manicured playlists, something for any vibe, for any of life’s moments.
‘Hello Newman’: The Enduring Genius of TV’s Greatest Sitcom Antagonist - The A.V. Club
September 18, 2023
It’s difficult, painful even, to ponder everything lost in the repeated failure to bring A Confederacy Of Dunces to the big screen.
On Jeff Bridges, The Old Man, and Time Out of Mind - The A.V. Club
July 21, 2022
In 1997, Bob Dylan, in his mid-50s and without an album of original music since 1990’s critically panned and objectively subpar Under The Red Sky, suffered a bout of near-fatal histoplasmosis pericarditis that forced the cancelation of a European tour and whole lot of severe chest pains. Shortly after recovering, he released Time Out Of Mind.
This Fool - The A.V. Club
August 9, 2022
Nobody “motherfucker”-s like Michael Imperioli. The mother is draaawn out, fired with the snarl of a just-pulled lawnmower and peppered with a deep intestinal rancor, the fucker coming almost as the release, the exhale, the purr of pissed incredulity caused by whichever injustice the world has placed before him.
Tulsa King - The A.V. Club
November 11, 2022
When the trailer for Tulsa King premiered during the NFL’s week six broadcast of the Buffalo Bills vs. the Kansas City Chiefs, the league’s early season heavyweight title bout, it seemed more than apt: The show promised a punchy, swaggering, sporting choice of violence, featuring the television debut of Sylvester Stallone, and offering the most stout shoulder and jutted jaw this side of the gridiron.