Ricch's music feels like a corrective to so many problems with both the pop and rap mainstreams.
Music Reviews
Pink Shabab: Ema by the Sea
Ema by the Sea forgoes the pity and anger for self-reflection and steady, unobtrusive production.
Film Reviews
The Gentlemen
Ritchie is back to doing what he does best: sharp and stylish gangster pictures populated with sprawling casts, clever plotting and lots of cockney accents.
Zombi Child
An at-times impenetrable film that serves as a forceful urging to consider how everything is connected.
Music Features
Discography: Scott Walker: Childhood of a Leader OST
Distills all of Walker’s wonderful excess into a bleak, digestible and sinister package.
Interview: Torres
"It’s hard for me to have nothing recent out there. I get really stir-crazy whenever the last thing I released was two or three years in the past."
Film Features
Oeuvre: Tarkovsky: Solaris
Sci-fi pushed to the boundaries of its analytical potential, employed as a means for recontextualizing issues besetting contemporary society, interpreted through a longer lens of enduring human experience.
Holy Hell! Best in Show Turns 20
One of the more striking aspects about Best in Show, in retrospect, is how it seamlessly weaves queerness into the fabric of the film.
Books
Face It: by Debbie Harry
Longtime fans of Harry and Blondie will find much to enjoy in her more often than not candid approach to her life in written form.
No Visible Bruises: by Rachel Louise Snyder
With its harrowing stories and lack of easy answers, No Visible Bruises is a demanding read, even though Snyder's prose and pacing carry it well.
Lists
Saturation Point: Great Songs We Never Want to Hear Again
We love you. But no more, please.
Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2014!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a film.