Lee Gardner
@leegee
Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
Hey Baltimore, John Woo’s The Killer is playing the Charles Theater Revival Series this Thursday at 9 pm!
My podcast partner Matt Byars and his band @thecaribbeandc.bsky.social organize this festival at @rhizomedc.bsky.social every June and this year’s edition is the biggest and best yet.
Oscar is still a top performer in the good-boy space heading into Q2. His KPIs exceed projections across the board.
This isn’t “playing.” This is stepping off the front porch, landing in snow up to your belly, and questioning the life choices that led you to this moment.
Hey, Baltimore, the Charles Theatre Revival Series is screening Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood this Saturday at 11:30 am and next Monday at 7 pm. It is perhaps the greatest Shakespeare film adaptation ever made, edging the director’s own Ran with its vigor and shot-after-shot visual dazzle.
D. Boon died 40 years ago today. I still think about him all the time, in part because of some graffiti I came across in the men’s room at Big Ed’s Pizza in Oak Ridge, TN, several years back.
OK, my fellow Appalachian-Americans: Is mac and cheese part of our cuisine? I don’t believe I ever had it until a sleepover (with a family Not From Around Here) when I was a teen, and I certainly don’t remember it being a staple on holiday tables in East Tennessee. Not gatekeeping, just curious.
RIP Peter Watkins. Not a super well-known filmmaker in this country, but watch the 53-year-old Punishment Park today and tell me he wasn’t a visionary filmmaker. Culloden and The War Game too.