When mapping the high watermarks of American filmmaking in the '70s, The Conversation tends to get lost in the shuffle between Coppola's oth...

The thing about garage rock (and by extension, garage punk) is that it's not really an album-oriented genre. How many essential modern garag...

Say what you will about Sly Stallone, but the guy may be America's last sentimentalist ― usually, anyways. Films he's written, starred...

There's a lot of suspense surrounding the release of the Feelies' first studio album in two decades, at least among the half-dozen Feelies f...

For the most part, trying to strike a balance between hardcore and pop punk is asinine; it's like trying to find the middle ground between v...

Man oh man, you've got to be some kind of ballsy dad rock bar band to think you can get away with covering "Day Tripper" on this side of the...

John Boorman's a bit of an odd duck. After establishing himself in Hollywood directing Lee Marvin in the exceptional Point Blank (1967) and...

Party Store is being described as a "companion piece" to the Dirtbombs' 2001 LP, Ultraglide in Black (one of the five best records of the la...

This has to be, what, the third or fourth Coen brothers box set to see DVD release in the past decade? It seems as if every time the two-hea...

Like The Terminator, Jurassic Park and The Matrix, RoboCop is one of those movies that is singularly perfect, but so chock full of what Holl...

Garage rock fans are total nerds — backhandedly cool, with impeccable taste in second-hand flannel shirts and an encyclopaedic knowled...

Cheap Time are one of those acts that get off on constantly futzing around with their sound. They're kind of a garage band; they're kind of...

More than 60 years after the fact, when censorship standards have become accommodating enough to permit the existence of The Human Centipede...

When their debut album dropped in 2007, Grinderman hit the ground running. Propelled by the one-two punch of lead singles "Get It On" and im...

Just like any good Western, sci-fi or slasher movie, it's always exciting to see (or revisit) a really good sitcom. Nowadays, shows like Arr...

At first glance, the Manson Family trial at the heart of Leslie, My Name Is Evil seems an odd subject for a Canadian filmmaker. Apart from s...

One should be careful labelling something "groundbreaking." Sure, it may apply at the time, but as time passes, said album, artwork, film, s...

You can't stop Grinderman. With the recent news of their lengthy European and North American tour coming on top of announcements of t...

Along with Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo, Christopher Nolan's Insomnia is one of two films from 2002 that took as its subject the idea of Ro...

South Korean writer/director Bong Joon-Ho is three for three. Between 2003's serial killer caper Memories of Murder, 2006's revisionist mons...