If their melancholy and largely triumphant Map of the Soul: 7 is anything to go by, carrying the burden of a pioneer style of fame rests uneasily on the shoulders of mega-stars BTS. Comprised of membe…
Bojack Horseman Review: A melancholy and fitting end
“Life’s a bitch and then you die, right?” Sometimes our endings aren’t endings. Instead, as is the case in the sixth and final season of the tremendous Bojack Horseman, they’re bookmarks placed in a s…
The Good Place Series Finale Review : Saying goodbye made sweeter due to lessons learned and love gained
For all its abundance of wonderment, larger than life set pieces and reboots that left the members of Team Cockroach scrambling through Jeremy Bearimys to stand grounded in each new version of their a…
Weathering With You Movie Review: Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered another stunner
Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered greater films than his latest, the climate change aware Weathering With You. His films such as 5 Centimeters Per Second and the 2016 megahit Your Name offered gre…
Album Review: Bon Iver -“i,i”
There’s an pulsing impatience to i,i, the latest album by Bon Iver which continues on with the plight to explore musical deconstruction and expression in ways that implode while imploring its listener…
Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’ – Remembering an immense talent
Great pain does not beget great art; trauma won’t always lead to inspiration, nor internal conflict to expression. These notions that to be an artist of notice and worth you must suffer is tired, pron…
The Best Movies of 2019…So Far
As is the case every year, if you’ve only been focusing on wide releases (an unfortunate reality for many who simply don’t have access to smaller, independent features or theaters that play them) the …