Growing into old age can be an interesting and strange process. As one’s skin begins to loosen and hair starts to thin, they have a life’s worth of joys, sorrows, mistakes, and achievements from which to draw. If the twilight…
Movie Review: Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan incites controversy, and the new documentary about the artist’s life and work, from director Maura Axelrod, wishes to make this immediately clear. Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back opens with quick displays of some of the…
Movie Review: How To Be A Latin Lover
What does a person do after they achieve their greatest ambition? This question rests near the heart of How to Be a Latin Lover, a film whose first five minutes portray the outline of a familiar story: a young child…
From the Record Crate: Pavement – “Slanted and Enchanted” (1992)
Reviewing their album Wowee Zowee in Rolling Stone, critic Mark Kemp accused Pavement of being “simply afraid to succeed.” Kemp pointed to the overbloat of the album’s 18-song tracklist and its seeming aversion to sounding anything like the releases that…
Album Review: Actress – “AZD”
Three years ago, a description of Actress’s fourth studio album was posted on the website of its label, Ninja Tune, that began with a cryptic message. It read, “Ghettoville is the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress…
Movie Review: Speech & Debate
Taking a stageplay to the screen is often an uneasy transposition; for every Glengarry Glen Ross or My Fair Lady—films that not only take the leap gracefully but even improve upon their source material in the new medium—there’s rides like…
Album Review: Deep Purple -“Infinite”
Let’s be clear: to call Deep Purple a one-hit wonder is a total disservice to the band. As one of the forebears of modern metal and hard rock, they arrive in 2017 with their twentieth studio album, Infinite, the latest…
