Tag: Philly

Movie Review: True Grit

True Grit  |  Directors Ethan & Joel Coen  |  Score: 6.8 Mattie Ross remains one of the more captivating figures of modern western literature. At 14, she goes into the town of Ft. Smith to hire a Marshall to track…

Sal’s Top Ten Records of 2010

1.         Superchunk – Majesty Shredding – Hard rocking indie-pop legends come back from a nine year hiatus with arguably their best record yet. 2.       Neil Young – Le Noize – Veteran iconoclast starts his 6th decade as a recording artist with his most…

Film Review: Tiny Furniture

Tiny Furniture  |  Director Lena Dunham  |  Score: 7.1 The bittersweet netherworld of the post-graduate is well-traversed territory in modern cinema, especially in films made by members of that particular fraternity, but in Lena Dunham’s captivating debut, the state of…

Film Review: The Fighter

The Fighter  |  Director David O. Russell  |  Score: 7.8 To begin with, how can you even make a dramatic film about boxing anymore? You have two fully iconic films in Rocky and Raging Bull so steeped into the national…