Jackson seems more and more honest with each release even as she finds new and surprising ways to articulate that honesty.
Music Reviews
Hareton Salvanini: Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor
While its optics may lure the cheesecake collector, its music is not erotic at all; it’s haunting and melancholy.
Film Reviews
The Times of Bill Cunningham
Cunningham would, perhaps, be embarrassed by the mere existence of a documentary being assembled in his honor
Corpus Christi
The power of Corpus Christi lies in the tension between past mistakes and present circumstances as a young man tries to leave behind a criminal history for a…
Music Features
Concert Review: Bat for Lashes
Khan played a set that not only reached through her five records but included cover versions of songs that played a formulative role in her development as an…
Revisit: The Verve: A Northern Soul
The wounds sustained from making A Northern Soul would eventually destroy the band.
Film Features
Revisit: The Year of Living Dangerously
It’s a peculiar delight to revisit Peter Weir’s chronically-underrated 1982 romantic drama, as it’s the kind of film they don’t make anymore, for better and for worse.
Oeuvre: Tarkovsky: Nostalghia
Tarkovsky naturally incorporates his own time abroad into the film, which could make Nostalghia an echo of the present to match Mirror’s loose exploration of the director’s past.
Books
In the Dream House: by Carmen Maria Machado
A horror movie of a book, but one that has fun while it terrifies you.
The Starlet and the Spy: by Ji-Min Lee
The construction of the story, the framing of the narrative with what, in the end, is a pointless visit from an American movie star, makes the novel uneven.
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.