From the Record Crate: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

With the release of Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen went from being a gravelly-voiced Jersey Boy wielding a guitar to a mainstream rock icon. Unfortunately, this level of success wasn’t quite the dream one would hope for. Springsteen had money…

Album Review: CHVRCHES – Love is Dead

You might be confused when you hear about a band that names Eurythmics, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliot Smith, and Cyndi Lauper as some of the inspirations for their sound, but CHVRCHES makes it work. Since the Scottish synth-pop trio…

The Dungeon Folks Sessions 15, 16, and 17!

In addition to our Twitch channel, you can also find the weekly installments of this campaign in video form on YouTube and Facebook video, and in audio form on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and android’s Pocketcasts! Behind on the story, or…

TV’s Best Series Finales [List]

“Endings are hard. […] The fans are always gonna bitch. There’s always gonna be holes. And since it’s the ending, it’s all supposed to add up to something. I’m telling you, they’re a raging pain in the ass.”–Chuck Shurley, Supernatural…

15 Years Later, Finding Nemo Is Still Pixar’s Best Story

Finding Nemo opened in theaters on May 30, 2003, and to this day, it remains Pixar’s most financially successful film ever when adjusted for inflation. The reasons for this are numerous. Finding Nemo happens to be one of Pixar’s more…

The Last Witness Examines the Katyn Massacre by Way of a Romantic Thriller

Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness is the latest cinematic attempt to reckon with the Katyn massacre, the horrific mass execution of an estimated 22,000 Poles—mostly members of the Polish officer corps, but also large swathes of Poland’s intelligentsia, bourgeois, and…

Survivor: Ghost Island Finale Review: “It Is Game Time Kids”

History has been made on Survivor: Ghost Island. For the first time ever, the final vote to crown the winner of Survivor ended in a tie. After 35 previous seasons, this outcome has never happened before. We’ve witnessed nail-biting votes,…