Vinyl review: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space reissue
Finally, more than a half-year after the CD reissue of Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Sony, comes the vinyl...
Independent Ethos Radio Hour – episode 1
It's here, the first episode of The Independent Ethos Radio Hour on Joltradio.org. To sum it up, this was recorded just after I attended...
Steve Hackett channels all that’s engaging about prog and doesn’t forget...
Last Thursday, in South Florida, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett brought his tour "Acolyte to Wolflight With Genesis Revisited" to the Parker Playhouse. The show was...
Tangerine could very well be a new classic in indie film...
There’s a sense of liberation in indie writer/director Sean Baker's follow-up to his 2012 film Starlet, a film that felt weighed down by its...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 4 – Best Films according to Hans
Mid-year, I teased my working lists of The best films of 2015 … so far. It's finalized. Four films had their premieres at either Miami Dade College's Miami...
Morgan: a schlocky movie unaware of its own schlockiness — a...
With his directorial debut, Morgan, Luke Scott -- son of Ridley Scott -- can't seem to see past his own ego to acknowledge inherit flaws in the script by...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl reduces friendship and death...
Since its buzzy debut back in January at Sundance, I am sure the issue has come up a billion times: Me and Earl and...
The Brand New Testament waffles between subversive humor and slapstick —...
For those of us lucky enough to have received our primary education in the highly esteemed institutions run by Christian educators, God may have...
Iron and Wine – live at The Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale,...
"Hello, Florida. It's been a minute. It's good to be back ... so we have too many songs to be up here chatting." But, as...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...