For a director like Neil Jordan, whose long, seemingly middle-of-the-road filmography actually houses digressions from respectable adaptation into unrespectable pulp and soap, a Raymond Chandler…
In nearly four decades, New Jersey’s Yo La Tengo have never taken a real break, with the smallest gap between records being a measly four…
Though it wasn’t actually that long ago, the pop music landscape into which Lil Yachty first emerged doesn’t really look the same as the one…
What do a master spy, an ornithologist, and a bunch of regular dudes from around the world have in common? That’s the premise of Matthew…
Director Goran Stolevski has given his sophomore feature, Of an Age, a suitably malleable title that effectively expresses the various thematic and emotional preoccupations guiding…
Bill Forsyth may have to bear the reductive, buzzy distinction of having “put Scottish cinema on the map,” but he at least did so with…
The found footage genre has proven itself to be quite resilient, particularly in the realm of horror. Pioneered by Ruggero Deodato, director of the 1980…
The 31st (!) film in the never-ending Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the kickoff to its Phase Five (whatever that means), Quantumania is also the third…
In the summer of 2001, Lionsgate distributed two brutal films about young adults carrying out murderous conspiracy plots against their friends. The first, Larry Clark’s…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Morality, Murder, and Misanthropic Milieus in Bully and O by Mike Thorn // An Ode to Decadence: An Interview With…
For this writer, a personal cinematic pet peeve is when characters fire guns only for the bullets to seem to dissipate, never hitting anything. John…
Cinema Sabaya, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, confronts the political in a manner both predictable and insidious. Let’s address the latter accusation first, as it…
Two new horror films arrive on screens this week which, paired together, suggest a kind of state-of-the-genre address: Christopher Smith’s Consecration offers a lovingly constructed…
After an eight-year gap since her last solo record, Meg Baird has returned with Furling, a contemplative and fully-realized folk album that, on first blush,…
Heavy music polyglots Oozing Wound have made their name as thrash metal jokesters, the trio’s penchant for titles ranging from the humorously prosaic (“Everyone I…
With all the various traumas and psychological afflictions on which character-driven horror has touched in recent years, it was only a matter of time before…
In the course of that rich history of films about con artists, the appeal has almost always been to watch largely amoral professionals execute their…
An ominous POV shot that wanders around a loud and joyful wedding opens Let It Be Morning, although we’re not, as it turns out, seeing…
A Type A careerist finds her life spinning out of control after the man she’s long harbored feelings for announces his intentions of marrying a…
The post-independence era was a turbulent one for the small island nation of Jamaica. Having gained freedom from the British in 1962, the following decade…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Titanic: Courting Disaster by Esmé Holden // The 2023 Grammy Awards: Racism, Rockism, and Plain Predictability by Nick Seip Kicking the Canon:…