Various Artists: Songs in the Key of Z Album Review

Some musical discoveries function like a subway station: They become hubs for vibrant lines connecting clubs,…

Witchboard Review: this remake doesn’t compare to the eighties classic

PLOT: Emily and her friends find a Witchboard in the woods. Using it results in deadly…

Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak Album Review

Cass McCombs showed up late for the 20th century, like a party guest arriving as the…

Nick Drake: The Making of Five Leaves Left Album Review

Since Drake’s death in 1974—at 26, still a year shy of 27 Club infamy—his estate and…

Freakier Friday review – nothing quite compares…

For many millennials and Gen Z cinephiles, Mark Waters’ Freaky Friday is a cornerstone of early 2000s cinema. The…

The Naked Gun review – not just more rebooted IP…

A good comedy must be funny; this shouldn’t be a debatable statement, and yet it would seem…

The Bad Guys 2 review – an absolute hoot

We’re guessing that there’s a spreadsheet somewhere on an old company laptop in Hollywood whose rows and…

Smurfs review – a drab exercise in IP filler…

We started, in 2011, with the pop singer-songwriter Katy Perry stepping into the pearly-white high-heels of…

Wet Leg: moisturizer Album Review

Rhian Teasdale is a frontwoman who leans into the uncanny and the strange, never letting you…