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Matthew Dear: Black City
Matthew Dear Black City Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Ghostly International Matthew Dear’s Black City slowly and strangely reveals itself, layer by layer, as a representation of a city, one that is not unlike many other
Read More »Neil Hamburger: Hot February Night
Neil Hamburger Hot February Night Rating 3.0/5.0 Label: Drag City If you aren’t familiar with “America’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger, you’re either going to be completely intrigued or utterly confused and repulsed by the following
Read More »The American
The American Dir: Anton Corbijn Rating: 3.0/5.0 Focus Features 105 Minutes Is it me or does it seem like George Clooney has been in a lot of movies lately? Including his latest feature, Anton
Read More »Interview: Johnny Hickman of Cracker
Cracker frontman David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman have known each other a long time. They have soldiered on together, starting with their 1992 eponymous debut album, to radio hits like “Low” and “Get
Read More »Revisit: Stone Temple Pilots: Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Revisit: Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop 1996 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Stone Temple Pilots: the Pearl Jam-shaped
Read More »Royal Trux: Cats and Dogs
Royal Trux Cats and Dogs Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Drag City Royal Trux were one of the ’90s’ most unheralded and most out-there rock bands. Until their break-up in the early ’00s, the core duo
Read More »Kemialliset Ystavat: Ullakkopalo
Kemialliset Ystavat Ullakkopalo Rating: 2.0/5.0 Label: Fonal Remember the opening to ’80s syndicated sci-fi sitcom, “Small Wonder,” where brilliant inventor/suburban breadwinner Ted Lawson opens the back panel on Vicki, a.k.a. the show’s titular Voice
Read More »Revisit: Crumb
Revisit: Crumb Dir: Terry Zwigoff 1995 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. It is hard to believe that Crumb, Terry Zwigoff’s breakthrough documentary about comic
Read More »The Milk of Sorrow
The Milk of Sorrow Dir: Claudia Llosa Rating: 4.0/5.0 Olive Films 94 Minutes The Milk of Sorrow opens with a horrifying monologue delivered in the form of a song by Fausta’s (Magaly Solier) mother,
Read More »Daniel & Ana
Daniel & Ana Dir: Michel Franco Rating: 3.0/5.0 Strand Releasing 90 Minutes Daniel & Ana opens with a most off-putting introduction: a notification that the film is based on a real story and only
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