Despite many noble dead on the field, the battle to prohibit video games from the hall of art has long since failed. The temple is…
Ancient life was all silence. In the 19th Century, with the invention of machines, Noise was born. —Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noise The city…
Maestro When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
Do we still need the album? That question — elicited by the advent of streaming music platforms and the musicians’ newfound ability to self-publish songs…
Writing for the New York Times in 1997, film critic Janet Maslin called Harmony Korine’s directorial debutGummo the “worst film of the year” — no small…
The Last Word from Your Editor, Sam C. Mac: With the 2010s officially over, the time seems right for another departure: after 12 years (with…
We’ve decided to do something a little different this year for our 2019 (so far) lists; instead of a formal poll, were using this as…
For a while, it seemed like 2013 had front-loaded its highlights; many films making our Top 20 either played the festival circuit in 2012 before finally…