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“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
“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
“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
“‘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
“‘Clemency’ Examines the Toll State-Sanctioned Murder Takes on Both Sides of the Bars”
Abolish the death penalty. Continue reading
“No Album Left Behind: Michaela Anne’s ‘Desert Dove'”
It’s never too late to take a minute and jot down some thoughts about one of 2019’s best country records, y’know. Continue reading
“‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Falls Under the Weight Of Its Own Franchising”
Good morning everyone! Let’s get popular on the Internet. Continue reading
“‘Bombshell’ Is An Oversanitized Mess — And A Missed Opportunity”
There are only so many ways that I, personally, can imagine screwing this movie up, and Jay Roach screws it up in all those ways plus others. Continue reading
“On Their Self-Titled Debut, Free Nationals Un-.Paak Themselves”
If there is a dad joke, and I can get away with making the dad joke, I will always, always, always make the dad joke, even dad jokes about Free Nationals albums. Continue reading
“Baumbach’s Marriage Story Mines Both Truth And Excess”
“It’s tough being the one guy with an unflattering take on the movie everyone loves,” said the one guy with an unflattering take on the movie everyone loves, finding the strength to move on against all odds. Continue reading
“Little Joe Could Use Pruning, But Chills Anyway”
Warning: Lots of gardening and botany puns ahead. Continue reading
“No Album Left Behind: Tsunami Bomb’s The Spine That Binds”
If you put a set of explosives in the water and a massive tidal wave formed, you would get…a really bad joke. Also, this album kicks ass. Continue reading
“Time and the Female Gaze Combine to Wither the Soul in ‘The Irishman'”
There’s nothing more that Andy likes in this world than getting in the last word, except for Martin Scorsese movies. He likes those way more. But why not both! Continue reading
“‘Frozen 2’s’ Themes Become Darker Even as the Kid Gloves Stay On”
Hell yeah, a grown-ass man beating up on the adorable kids film, because my HEART is COLD as ICE. Continue reading
“Corporations Triumph Over Cars in Ford v Ferrari”
Vroom vroom zoom zoom beep beep screech crash bang boom man emotions vroooooom manly slap fight zip zip zap Continue reading
“‘Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police’ Plays The Hits”
A new Juliana Hatfield album, following the other new Juliana Hatfield album, except *this* Juliana Hatfield album is The Police. Continue reading
“In Charlie’s Angels the Cast Is Having More Fun than You Will”
This is a movie, but also the epitome of a blockbusting year spent making overdetermined, obnoxious , totally disingenuous proclamations of feminine heroism. Continue reading
“5 New Releases We Love: FKA Twigs Transfigures, Gang Starr Throws It Back, And More”
Last week, for The A.V. Club‘s weekly A-Sides feature, I had the good luck of writing about the new FKA twigs album, Magdalene, essentially her way of working through her breakup with Robert Pattinson, which I know little about*, other than it resulted in a really great album by an incredibly talented artist. I also know that I’m … Continue reading
