reviews
Nicolas Cage's Dracula Comedy 'Renfield' Bites Off a Little Too Much
Directed by Chris McKay
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023
I suppose the key was in the title: Renfield was always going to be about R.M. Renfield, Dracula's servant, and not the Prince of Darkness...
'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Explodes the Line Between Activism and Radicalism
Directed by Daniel Goldhaber
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is one of the most potent blends of style and politics in recent memory. It's a lean, unrelenting social thriller...
Kristi Lane Sinclair Offers Rest and Rage on 'Super Blood Wolf Moon'
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
We often describe women who survive terrible things as "brave." It's a swift designation that seems to reward one's bearing the violence of...
Kara Jackson Asks the Big Questions on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?'
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
The first song recorded by Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, is 1923's "Downhearted Blues." It starts with Smith pining after unrequi...
Wavves x Cloud Nothings
No Life for Me
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
After teasing their collaboration for several months, Wavves' Nathan Williams and Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi decided to drop No Life for M...
'Beau Is Afraid' Is Nearly as Fucked Up as Reality
Directed by Ari Aster
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
When I saw 2019's Midsommar in the theatre, someone down the aisle from me spent much of the movie scream-whispering at her seatmate, repea...
Kid Koala Is All Fun and Games on 'Creatures of the Late Afternoon'
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
Montreal-based turntablist Eric San, best known as Kid Koala, has been one of the most wonderfully inventive and wholesomely cathartic arti...
U.S. Girls Settled into a New Shape in Toronto
Drake Underground, April 8
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2023
Three songs into U.S. Girls' Saturday night set at Drake Underground, Meg Remy shot keyboard player Georgie Gordon a look, one that suggest...