Weezer fandom is unlike any other. Longtime listeners of the band – even those who haven’t truly loved a new Weezer track since the mid90s – hold their breath every time a new release is announced, only to almost inevitably…
Album Review: The Twilight Sad – “It Won/t Be Like This All the Time”
The Twilight Sad’s output as of late, though steeped in undeniable skill and indulgence, has felt as though it was holding something back. While lush, immersive records like 2012’s No One Can Ever Know and 2014’s Nobody Wants To Be…
Buffalo Boys Movie Review: An electrifying but familiar take on the Western
In recent years, there’s been an explosion of Westerns within the world of pop culture, with films and television using the unforgiving American frontier setting for tales ranging from straightforward to reconstructivist, from comedy to science fiction. As many of…
Ashes in the Snow Movie Review: Even Bel Powley doesn’t shine bright enough to save this melodrama
Inspired by the harrowing true events dramatized in Ruta Sepetys’s best-selling 2011 novel set in the midst of Stalin’s genocide of the Baltic people, Ashes in the Snow (a title that’s a bit too on-the-nose for its own good, but…
The Vanishing Movie Review: Director Kristoffer Nyholm creates a surprisingly eerie mystery
Using Scottish folklore as a speculative framing device for historical fanfiction, The Vanishing (formerly Keepers) tells the viewer right at the top that this is extremely loosely based on the story of the Flannan Isle Mystery, in which three lighthouse…
Vice Movie Review: Amidst the tonal chaos emerges an angry and distinct piece of work
Director Adam McKay never quite fits into the box that viewers try so adamantly to shove him into. After watching goofy, irreverent buddy comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy or Talladega Nights, it would be all too easy…
Movie Review: The Second Time Around
Few genres leave older performers quite as alienated as the romantic comedy. If all you knew about human interactions came from what was shown in multiplexes, you’d most likely subscribe to the false doctrine that if you haven’t found the…
