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Bombast

Bombast: Williamsburg on Screen

By Nick Pinkerton
May 30, 2014
North Brooklyn filmed, before and after the hipster hoards and condos

Bombast: The Immigrant and Godzilla

By Nick Pinkerton
May 23, 2014
Of monsters and melodrama: a look at intimate American cinema and blockbuster art

Bombast: This Print Could Be Your Life

By Nick Pinkerton
May 16, 2014
A polemic on why the decision to "just stream it later" is destroying film culture

Bombast: Revenge

By Nick Pinkerton
May 9, 2014
Cinema's everlasting love affair with people mercilessly tracking down and murdering the ones that wronged them

Bombast: Boyhood

By Nick Pinkerton
May 1, 2014
This boy's life, from Norman Rockwell to Little Fugitive to Captain America

Bombast: The Afghan Whigs

By Nick Pinkerton
April 25, 2014
Sub genius: a consideration of one band's cinematic unself-consciousness

Bombast: Rebirth

By Nick Pinkerton
April 18, 2014
The inimitable column returns with an immodest proposal for clicktastic cinephilia

Futures & Pasts: Barabbas

By Nick Pinkerton
March 11, 2014
Haunted: Richard Fleischer's unsung Biblical story of the criminal pardoned instead of Jesus marks a high point in the versatile studio filmmaker's output

Futures & Pasts: Trans-Europ-Express

By Nick Pinkerton
February 14, 2014
Robbe-Grillet's S&M-filled, Nouveau Roman metacinema classic gets its due