Review: Bradley Cooper’s ‘A Star Is Born’
“Gagaโs mere presence in ‘A Star Is Born’ย allows Cooper a wide berth to go big with scenes and moments that play with and embrace camp.”
“Gagaโs mere presence in ‘A Star Is Born’ย allows Cooper a wide berth to go big with scenes and moments that play with and embrace camp.”
โโBodiedโ is a blisteringly urgent and inescapably topical meditation on race, class and identity; the kind of movie that could only be told with the panache and in-your-face directness of Kahn.โ
โโBaby Driverโ and โDriveโย are not road maps to modernity, they donโt offer any route through it that guarantees a safe arrival. The only advice they might offer is to tear up the map itself. To simply drive.โ
โItโs hard not to listen to The Quickโs output and wonder, wistfully, what could have been.โ
โAt times, โBeyondlessโ is overwhelming in the scope of its genius, but the chord progressions that Johan Surrballe Wieth has conjured are something divine.โ
โThe music of Drinks is uncategorizable, yet addictive. For those who crave something that genuinely challenges the ears, โHippo Liteโ is a real find.โ
โWith โPinned,โ A Place to Bury Strangers shows that the bandโs exploration of โone good ideaโ continues to yield amazing results.โ
โโThe Red Shoesโ dynamically crosses from reality to fantasy, befitting a film that is itself a grand fiction, simultaneously reflecting and critiquing a true reality. Thatโs the power of cinema — thatโs the power of โThe Red Shoes.โโ
Mike Thorn on Alice Cooperโs โFrom the Inside, โSpecial Forcesโ and โBrutal Planetโ
โAs both a man and an artist, Paul Robeson deserves more recognition in 2018 and beyond.โ
Love Is Love: Peter Putzel Marries FilmStruck
โWhile The Soft Moon has always released music that could best be described as โnone more bleak,โ with โCriminal,โ there seems to be something like acceptance. Maybe thatโs the bleakest timeline of all.โ
โThese are songs that donโt feel like theyโve been corrupted by overthinking or compressed by studio gloss.โ
โDe Lux excels at provoking a โwhat did he just sing?โ curiosity while youโre moving back and forth to the beat.โ
โโKho ki pa lรผโ is about a lot of things, but it’s mostly about music. It is about Li, the songs that people sing when they cultivate rice in small mรผles.โ
โThis is a trio dwelling on the sharp, atonal edge of post-punkโ
โMelkbelly is hard to pin down; their songs flaunt a flagrant disregard for what many would consider indie rock or punk or post-punk.โ
โThe first two songs on โNaturalityโ prove O.R.B.โs members have clearly got the chops to do something different with their doom-inspired template.โ
โPerhaps โPlumโ represents the incarnation of what Wand fans didnโt know they were looking for until they heard it.โ
“As Segall’s self-assurance increased, so did his funny banter.”