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Theater/Film

Gogol: un-mellow

‘Gogol Project’ mixes three Gogol short stories – review at NeonTommy.com There aren’t a whole lot of ways to make abstruse Russian literature palatable to a room full of young Echo Park hipsters, but a giant walking nose is one way to go about it. If Nikolai Gogol had written three of his most famous...

‘The Informant!’ Reviewed

Hot actors love to get frumpy for movies, and critics love them for doing it. Charlize Theron was a mulletted serial killer in Monster, Nicole Kidman had a giant plastic proboscis in The Hours, and Matt Damon creeped his way to a Golden Globe in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Now he’s doing it again in...

‘Extract’ review for Neon Tommy

It seems like no one is happy with a two-car garage and spacious sequestered bath these days. From the bitter breakdowns in “American Beauty” to the angst of “Revolutionary Road,” suburbia gets a bad rap in the movie industry. In the dark comedy “Extract,” director Mike Judge puts his own sardonic spin on the gated-community...