10 Things to Love about 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Know this: if you ever dare tell me that 10 Things I Hate About You isn’t a perfect movie, I will literally fight you. Based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You follows Kat…

Ramen Shop Movie Review: Gather ’round the table for a tasty tale of food and family

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so too is the way to a movie-lover’s. In Ramen Shop (Ramen Teh) — the beautiful and brothy, Singaporean-Japanese-French film from director Eric Khoo, the visionary who revived Singaporean…

Concert Review: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal — College Park, MD, 3/16/19

MilkBoy ArtHouse, across the street from the University of Maryland, is tiny, conducive to talking to strangers. On Saturday night, the guy next to me at the barricade had face tattoos; he got them last decade, when he was playing…

Bleeding Red: The Use of Color in Horror

A good horror movie understands how to overwhelm the senses — even when the thrills and chills are of the minimalist kind. From elaborate sound design to committed, blood-curdling performances, or the perfect display of gushing blood and the sound…

Interview: Sean Bonnette of AJJ

AJJ does not make music that you can hear and dismiss. After just a few lines, it demands your opinion. People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World, one of the band’s most renowned albums, makes for…

New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Trailer Released

Let the end times roll. Marvel Studios released a new trailer for Avengers: Endgame on Thursday morning. The world is six weeks out from the ultimate, potentially somber goodbye to its beloved band of movie superheroes and currently swooning over Marvel’s…

Gotham 5×09 Review: “The Trial of Jim Gordon”

James Gordon had a lot to answer to in Gotham’s court of public opinion. But in the case of “The Trial of Jim Gordon,” the entire legal facade dealt with his inner demons. There’s something about alternate psychological realities that…