Lizzo “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins the first song on Lizzo’s newest album, Special. And, honestly, given that a lot of big-name…
Rule 34 At its core, the intellectual thesis of Julia Murat’s intelligent if inconclusive film belies a more emotional investment. As its title might…
Beyoncé Dropping just over a month after Drizzy’s divisive, house music-inflected megamix, listening through Beyoncé’s sinuous dance record might provoke commentary like the text…
Human Flowers of Flesh Bouncing back from two years worth of Covid-related disruption while still riding out some major switch-ups and art direction, the…
Please Baby Please It’s the rare film that proves capable of achieving genuine novelty, and even rarer to find one that manages to parlay…
Dark Glasses It’s been a rough couple of decades for Dario Argento. Once hailed as the “Master of Horror” for films like Deep Red…
Manchurian Tiger There’s one very well-executed scene in mainland Chinese indie director Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger: Ma Qianli (Jun regular Zhang Zhiyong), a one-time-successful…
Post Malone Few may have guessed that Austin Richard Post (or, Post Malone, as translated by an Internet rap name generator) would be the…
Inu-Oh Masaaki Yuasa simply can’t be stopped — or at least that’s what it has seemed like for the past two decades, during which…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service…
Swallowed Things have been building to this moment for a while, but ever since films like Julia Ducournau’s Raw crossed over to find a…
The Mole Song: Final The Mole Song: Final is the third and, well, final part of Takashi Miike’s Mole Song series about an undercover…
Shin Ultraman In 2016, mad genius Anno Hideaki took time off from his twenty-year-long project of remixing, remaking, revising, and reinterpreting his classic anime…
Kevin Gates It’s been a relatively humdrum couple of years for Kevin Gates, the bulky, burly-voiced performer who deals in big, pop-friendly melodies and…
Perhaps the preeminent film festival in the minds of genre aficionados, Fantasia Fest is back in 2022 at arguably the peak of its popularity,…
The Unknown Country Non-fiction scenarios and non-professional actors are often characterized as so rich and unpredictable that all a director needs to be is…
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Wilco For a while, it seemed like nothing ever came easy for Wilco. Early classics like Being There and Summerteeth bore the marks of…