Beach House seal the deal opening for Vampire Weekend
As established in my last post praising LCD Soundsystem, the bar for live alternative rock has been set high for the rest of the...
Film Review: Andrea Arnold’s raw and impressionistic take on ‘Wuthering Heights’
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through...
From the Archives: David Bowie’s hours… reissue on vinyl and my...
The news came last week via the official website of David Bowie: Bowie's 1999 album hours... will finally see official release on vinyl by...
‘The Dark Knight Rises:’ an Independent Ethos take on another Hollywood...
You have to admire Christopher Nolan. Count him among those few Hollywood directors alluded to in an earlier post who can prop up a...
Fassbinder’s prophetic 1973 sci-fi work ‘World on a Wire’ finally sees...
A three-hour-plus sci-fi experience, World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), seemed to have existed as mere legend in the filmography of Rainer Werner...
Paris Can Wait captures frustrating mysteries of love — a film...
Though straightforward and not without some technical impurities, not to mention a few trite romantic comedy tropes, Paris Can Wait has a creeping appeal...
Surreal Sorry to Bother You takes no prisoners
Sorry to bother you, but I’ll keep this short and promise to allow for some insight into the socially conscious, surrealist feature debut by...
Laughter turns creepy in Tickled — a film review
The internet is filled with weirdos. In Tickled, all the dangers of those weirdos that your mother or grandmother warned you about come true. In...
Solo: A Star Wars Story gives the franchise some overdue grit
It took Ron Howard to direct the Star Wars movie I had hoped Rian Johnson would have delivered after Looper (Film Review: Looper smartens up...
My Golden Days explores the distorting filter of time with keen...
“I am not Ulysses. No nostalgia for my country,” says the anthropologist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) to a lover in Greece. With a title...