Riders of Justice finds director Jensen hedging between the dank feels of his early scriptwork and the weirdo vibes of his later directorial output, to…
Episode Description: This week, we take on 1984’s Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill, a film that opens by helpfully describing itself as…
Mainstream is a depthless, toothless attempt at satire that was out-of-touch at conception and arrives well past its expiration date. Social media, as captured…
Episode Description: This week, prepare yourself for a super-sized episode as we discuss Tom Green’s divisive 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered. Marvel as two…
DEACON doesn’t match the memorable, eerie energy of soil, but is still mostly successful as an articulation of serpentwithfeet’s new, breezy era (interlude?) of…
Green to Gold represents a mostly successful sonic and lyrical calming of the storm for The Antlers. Seven years after their last album, The…
Episode Description: This week, the fountain of youth wreaks havoc on the lives of Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn in 1992’s dark…
Episode Description: This week, we’re talking 2021’s first legitimate blockbuster (of a sort): Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the four-hour behemoth currently streaming on HBO…
Little Oblivions is a sonically expansive, linguistically mature step forward for Julien Baker. “Faith Healer,” the third track on Julien Baker’s latest album, Little Oblivions,…
The Fever has plenty on its mind and is considerably weighty in its own right, but feels somewhat too indebted to obvious, superior arthouse touchstones.…
Episode Description: This week, a weekend trip to Myrtle Beach will change the lives of four best friends forever in 1989’s Shag, directed by…
Chaos Walking welcomingly deviates from the YA template and surprises with its visual design, but it crumbles under the weight of its unexplored ideas. From…
Raya and the Last Dragon is beautifully animated and welcomingly eccentric, but also a little overly familiar. Much remains the same in Disney’s latest animated…
Episode Description: This week, nuclear war meets teen comedy as we take on 1986’s ill-conceived The Manhattan Project, directed by Marshall Brickman. Christopher Collet…
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson squanders its opportunity to use a time-loop gimmick to meaningfully engage with bigger ideas. Early in The Obituary of Tunde…
When You Found Me is an emotionally mature, classic rock riff on Lucero’s singular sound. Lucero has always found themselves at intersections; sonically, the southern…
Episode Description: This week, Summer Blockbuster!?! celebrates Valentine’s Day by taking on one of the least romantic romances ever filmed: 1986’s Under the Cherry…
Judas and the Black Messiah energizes necessary rhetoric and is impeccably crafted, but diminishes its power by sticking so closely to a prescribed biopic template.…