Richard knows to set herself apart not only to stand…
Music Reviews
Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny
An album that will have moments that appeal to prog…
Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life: People of the Sun
Strickland and his band Twi-Life are working a juicy vein…
Film Reviews
Glass
Twist-obsessed Shyamalan contorts his storytelling into the kind of pretzel logic that alternately resorts to indulgence in outlandish implausibility and too-convenient coincidence.
Stan and Ollie
Coogan and Reilly have resurrected two comedians whose contribution to film should be remembered.
Music Features
Discography: Parliament-Funkadelic: Osmium
Osmium is recommended listening: a crucial transitional moment between the psychedelic sounds of early P-Funk and their more sui generis later work.
Holy Hell! 13 Turns 20
13 is a one-of-a-kind entry in an already enviable discography, a moody, troubled album with nothing to lose and nothing to prove.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Assault on Precinct 13
Assault on Precinct 13 is where John Carpenter truly emerged.
Holy Hell! The Insider Turns 20
Mann paces The Insider much as he did Heat, maintaining a constant tension even as the narrative stretches into ruminative longueurs.
Books
History and Presence: by Robert Orsi
History and Presence offers illuminating insights into the hidden.
The Absolved: by Matthew Binder
Binder’s work recalls that of Brett Easton Ellis in that he can make an oversexed, overpaid, chauvinist protagonist dynamic and symbolic without bashing readers over the head with…
Lists
Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2013!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a film.
Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2013!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a record.