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Explosions in the Sky Hint at a New Beginning with 'End'
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023
To title your album End is to conjure a series of meanings about the current state of the world, the frailty of nature, or simply the futur...
Talking Heads' Remaster of 'Stop Making Sense' Clarifies the Best Concert Film Ever
Directed by Jonathan Demme
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023
We should all know how it starts by now: David Byrne walks on stage with only an acoustic guitar and boombox, the theatre's backstage area...
Survival Drama 'The End We Start From' Looks for a New Beginning Amidst the Climate Crisis
Directed by Mahalia Belo
PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2023
Survival dramas have a way of refocusing the things that are most important in life: safety, family, and the comfort of not fearing tomorro...
'Knox Goes Away' Doesn't Go Away Quickly Enough
Directed by Michael Keaton
PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2023
Any expectation that Knox Goes Away is a high-octane, adrenaline-spiking thrill ride about an assassin who steadily loses his faculties sho...
The Late jaimie branch Is Airborne on 'Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))'
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PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2023
There's no telling where the flight plan would have guided the late jaimie branch and her Fly or Die ensemble. But if the American trumpete...
Mitski's 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We' Is Her Loneliest Record Yet
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2023
For a time, Mitski seemed over it. In recent years, the artist — once deemed by Iggy Pop to be "the most advanced American songwriter [he k...
Olivia Rodrigo Survives Teenhood on the Valiant 'GUTS'
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PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2023
The old saying goes that girls mature faster than boys. This is what we're told repeatedly, in the same breath that "he likes you" will be...
'Fitting In' Is a Coming-of-Age Classic for a New Generation
Directed by Molly McGlynn
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2023
There have been many movies made about how hard it is to be a woman; in recent years, these films tend to focus on the terror we feel as we...