Much like the bombastic, free-for-all fight culture at its center, Donnybrook doesn’t let up. Director Tim Sutton’s (Memphis, Pavillion) monumental downer knocks its viewers onto the ground early on, and then just keeps dishing out punches. But before long, it…
Album Review: Jessica Pratt – “Quiet Signs”
Quiet Signs is only 27 minutes long, but it’s the sort of truly devastating album that it’s all too easy to find yourself lost in. Jessica Pratt’s distinctive, otherworldly voice, like something out of a dusky fantasy, can transport you…
The Prodigy Movie Review: A doomed to be forgotten take on familiar horror trope
The world will never run out of movies about creepy kids. For some reason or another, we are obsessed with watching parents being tormented by their own terrifying offspring. The latest entry into this curious subgenre, The Prodigy, is almost…
Braid Movie Review: A delightfully strange and nauseating experience
Don’t let Braid’s glossy coating and vibrant color scheme fool you; it is most assuredly out for blood. From its off-kilter camera positioning to its rapid narrative swings, this macabre journey is a nauseating experience, in the best way possible.…
Album Review: The Specials – “Encore”
The Specials always displayed charisma and style, but who would have predicted that the legendary English ska revival veterans would possess such unshakeable longevity? After experiencing more than a few lineup changes and witnessing nearly all of their peers fall…
Album Review: Backstreet Boys – “DNA”
Backstreet’s back alright, with AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell once again refusing to let middle age slow them down. In their first new studio album since 2013’s In A World Like This, the seminal…
King of Thieves Movie Review: A middle-of-the-road heist flick
From the seminal (The Italian Job) to the near unwatchable (Going in Style), Michael Caine is no stranger to heist movies. For that matter, neither are Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, or Paul Whitehouse, which appears to be the…
