Dawson is a fiercely working-class songwriter.
Music Reviews
Kim Petras: Turn Off the Light
Fear is in the water.
Various Artists: This Is Mainstream
What does Judd Apatow have to do with jazz fusion?
Film Reviews
Pain and Glory
Almodóvar pulls off a nice trick with this movie, moving…
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse proves there’s still fertile ground in the past…
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the boldest of Disney’s films…
Music Features
Discography: Scott Walker: We Had It All
We Had It All was the last solo album Walker would make in hopes of a hit.
Rediscover: Oregon: Music of Another Present Era
What carried Music of Another Present Era away from its stoned roots was a dedication to beauty.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Varda: The World of Jacques Demy
After releasing The World of Jacques Demy in 1995, Agnés Varda would take a six-year break from filmmaking before returning with one of her most acclaimed works, The…
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Jimmy Orpheus
Represents an outlier in the oeuvre of an outlier, not canonical, standard art film fare.
Books
Severance: by Ling Ma
Severance posits that society can’t move forward if it’s stuck on how things used to be.
Ghoster: by Jason Arnopp
Ghoster is about as modern a horror novel as one could hope to find.
Lists
Janet Jackson’s Best Songs
Jackson understands better than most the intricacies of human emotion, and being an innovator and black woman in entertainment certainly deepened her perspectives.
Great Album, Forgotten Song
Even the classic albums have forgotten songs. We right those wrongs.