You really, genuinely, legitimately cannot get rid of the Babadook, not as long as SNL and “The Magicians” keep making jokes about it. Continue reading
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“In ‘Zombi Child’, White Tears Dampen Haitian History”
“Go do that voodoo that you do,” says the spoiled white girl to the mambo, foolishly throwing cash at something she doesn’t and never will understand. Continue reading
“All Good Things Must End, Even ‘The Good Place'”
One of the last decade’s defining TV series comes to a close, and I couldn’t be more overjoyed. Continue reading
“Americans Are What They Eat in ‘Dinner in America'”
“It’s so sexy / To be eating dinner in America” Continue reading
“Wolf Parade’s ‘Thin Mind’ Is Even Thinner On New Ideas”
Thin minds are the very worst kind of mind. They’re the hardest to write about, anyway. Continue reading
“The Power of ‘Three Christs’ Will Not Compel You”
That heaving noise you hear is the sound of Andy laughing too hard for too long at his own incredibly dumb joke. Continue reading
“Richard Stanley Un-Cages Lovecraftian Weirdness in ‘Color Out of Space'”
Unspeakable horror! Mutant nightmares! Eldritch evil! Alexandrian witchcraft! Nicolas Cage gleefully picking tomatoes and peaches off of the vine! Continue reading
“Able to Do Anything Post-MCU, Robert Downey Jr. Chooses ‘Dolittle'”
What’s a man do to when he has all the money in the world plus a rehabilitated image as Marvel’s greatest hero? He does little. Very, very little. Continue reading
“5 New Releases We Love: Algiers’ Urgent Return, Georgia’s Perfect Dance Pop, And More”
Everything else may have gone wrong, but at least Bombay Bicycle Club’s first release in several years has gone totally right. Continue reading
“How Vitamin Sea Brewing Became the Best Brewery of 2019”
When the best brewery of 2019 is a faster-than-quick drive from where you live, you of course go to interview the owner. Assuming that’s your job. Continue reading
“‘Camaraderie & Community’ At The Core of Nashville’s Gender Revolution”
And now, a moment to acknowledge the uglier side of making music in Nashville when you’re a woman: Sexism. Good thing no one’s having it anymore. Continue reading
“Marcus King Talks About the Therapy of Music and His New Album ‘El Dorado'”
More goodness from Nashville, delivered right into your face! Continue reading
“VHYes Rewinds to Pre-Smartphone Era of Self-Recording”
In which one kid’s personal apocalypse is ushered in through his own obsession with recording his every stupid move. Continue reading
“These Rising Nashville Stars Stick Together The Same Way We Do—With A Group Message”
The stars, they’re just like us! They make friends! They text each other hot goss! They…text each other when they’re knitting sweaters in hotel rooms! Continue reading
“Hawktail’s ‘Formations’ Soars Over Tennessee”
Yes, this header is the best that I could do. No, that should stop you neither from reading the review nor listening to the record. Continue reading
“Best of Criterion’s New Releases, December 2019”
Temple Drake’s gonna tell her story with tunes of glory until the end of the world. Continue reading
“‘The Sonata’ Hits One Great Note and Misplays the Rest”
Andy had hopes for this movie, but it turns out it’s so not-a good. Continue reading
“Florence Pugh’s Year of Performing Perfectly”
Three movies, three Florence Pugh roles, three stellar Pugh-formances, one piece to recap all of them for you and also find the ways that they intersect. Continue reading
“10 Trends in the Beer Industry to Watch in 2020”
Trends! Get your beer trends here! Fresh trends, alive, alive-oh! Continue reading
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