Melina Matsoukas's feature directorial debut, Queen & Slim, is not a brave film.   To call something brave is to deify it, to ignore the c...

There is a scene in Melina Matsoukas's Queen & Slim that depicts Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen having her braids removed — so as to change her...

Alexandria Maillot's voice has been compared to that of many — Feist, Stevie Nicks and Brittany Howard. I'd like to add my own comparison: a...

Ten minutes deep and on the face of it, The Good Liar is about love.   Indeed, director Bill Condon and cinematographer Tobias A. Schliess...

iskwē's sound is a gift. On her latest album, acākosīk, her voice is at times broad and strong, landing like a punch to the face, and at oth...

At first listen, Half Moon Run's latest album, A Blemish in the Great Light, is inoffensive. The record sounds much like what the indie rock...

During the third act of Black and Blue, the audience applauded many times — it seemed the only way to expel the tension everyone's nerves we...

When Greg Gonzalez, founding member and vocalist of ambient-pop band Cigarettes After Sex, speaks, he does so in pictures.   Talking about...

American ambient pop band Cigarettes After Sex have a deceptively simple way of doing things. Their 2017 EP was self-titled, and this full-l...

At one point in The Laundromat, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas — each in character as Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, respectively — tur...

Basement Revolver's new EP, Wax and Digital, is a wonderful playground of contradictions. It's a worthy and textured successor to their beau...

Pop punk band Lisa Prank's latest album, Perfect Love Song, lands in a manner similar to the gut-punch of Hole's candy-coated "Hit So Hard."...

Netflix's latest feature tells the story of a detective's obsession with a killer, but it could've been more.   Shot in Ontario, In the Sh...