Brian Thompson
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Brian Thompson‘s adoration (and borderline obsession) for all things pop culture has culminated in his movie reviews blog, southernfilmcritic.wordpress.com. His written ramblings on the world of entertainment have been featured around the web, on such sites as Chicago Scene and Taste of Cinema. Brian is also the founder and cohost of the Drinking at the Movies podcast on the Now Playing Network.

Movie Review: Pop Aye

“You don’t look like the type who’d be traveling with an elephant,” says a sympathetic stranger in the opening scene of Pop Aye (not to be confused with Robert Altman’s 1980 failed attempt to pay tribute to a beloved cartoon…

Album Review: Palehound – “A Place I’ll Always Go”

With their 2015 full-length debut, the delightfully fuzzy Dry Food, Palehound established themselves as a pronounced addition to a division of indie darlings (featuring such groups as Hop Along and Speedy Oritz) bent on thrusting their love of the mid-90s…

Album Review: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – “The Nashville Sound”

On the opening number of Jason Isbell’s latest record ‒ “Last of My Kind,” a John Prine tribute even by Isbell standards ‒ the accomplished singer-songwriter entertains the notion that he belongs to a dying breed. Over the next ten…

Album Review: Big Thief – “Capacity”

Adrianne Lenker appears to have been predestined to become one of indie rock’s most naturalistic songwriters, bearing her soul on the track in a manner that genuinely feels as though it is devoid of effort or pretense. She can’t help…