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Carey Mulligan Great Gatsby
May 10, 2013
FILM & TELEVISION, KILLOUGH CHRONICLES

REVIEW: ‘Gatsby’ Is an Anagram for ‘Trashy,’ Somehow

[The Great Gatsby] is a purely creative work — not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

If only Baz Luhrmann had taken the time to go to Wikipedia to read those lines in the abridged history of the book, maybe he would have resisted serving up the two hours and twenty minutes of ‘trashy imaginings’ that his adaptation is.

I was dragged into seeing this despite year-old misgivings (thanks to the garish trailer) by dueling reviews from entertainment writers I admire, Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast and Dana Stevens from Slate. Stern began his review

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Nick D'Aloisio
March 29, 2013
KILLOUGH CHRONICLES

Hey, Internet! Leave Them Kids Alone!

Regular readers know that on a Friday I normally publish a film review, but I was unable to get to the cinema yesterday to catch what I wanted to write about, The Place Beyond the Pines, and won’t be able to see it until next week.  Instead, I refer you to Dana Steven’s review in Slate.  In my opinion, Stevens is the best non-filmmaker reviewer out there, which is my way of avoiding the truth—that she is probably a better writer than I am, period—because I’m not aware of any other filmmakers who write reviews,

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By James Killough
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