Old houses carry an intrinsic eeriness, but the horrors we conjure up in our own imagination are often far more terrifying than whatever the dull truth turns out to be. With recycled set pieces and plot beats, Marrowbone commits the…
The Miracle Season Movie Review: Lack of sincerity will drive away target audience
There’s a very specific target demographic in mind with director Sean McNamara’s The Miracle Season, a semi-faith-based, inspired-by-true-events underdog story about competitive girls’ volleyball. However, even they are sure to walk away from the theater unsatisfied with a movie that…
Album Review: Frankie Cosmos – “Vessel”
The career trajectory of Frankie Cosmos isn’t one that’s easy to define. With hundreds of short, peppy indie pop tracks, prolific Bandcamp success story Greta Kline quickly gained notoriety with her cherubic harmonies and minimalist sketchpad renderings of youthful clumsiness.…
Sherlock Gnomes Movie Review: An unfunny and unnecessary sequel
Sherlock Gnomes opens by tipping its hand, going through major works of literature and pop culture to see which ones lend themselves to cloying, forced gnome puns, and then, between groans, building a loose story around it. It’s as if…
7 Days in Entebbe Review: An aggressively average film
After three fictionalized accounts and at least twice as many documentaries, Operation Entebbe (also known as Operation Thunderbolt) has long been included in the annals of pop culture. Within a year of the highjacking, you could choose between experiencing the…
Album Review: The Decemberists – “I’ll Be Your Girl”
2011’s surprisingly successful The King is Dead seemed to mark a progression for The Decemberists, marching down a path of front porch Americana and a folk tradition of roots storytelling. However, on their follow-up, What a Terrible World, What a…
