‘Dirt Femme’ review: Tove Lo shares her take on the status quo in her latest album

Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo has returned with her latest album, Dirt Femme. Though it is her fifth studio album, this will be her first project released under her own record label, Pretty Swede Records. Known for painting dark hues over…

“Quiet the Room” review: Skullcrusher’s debut album stuns with Helen Ballentine’s bewitching vocals

The name Skullcrusher immediately conjures up suggestions of doom metal, sludge, or thrash metal. The paradox between the appellation, which is the project of Helen Ballentine, and the music gainsays the aggression of any category of metal. Skullcrusher’s debut album,…

‘Halloween Ends’ review: Is this really the end of Michael Myers?

Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Anti Matichak, Halloween Ends caps off the modern trilogy with a twist on the long-running franchise. When audiences back in 1978 first saw Halloween and experienced Michael Myers in all his…

‘Pretty Dead Queens’ review: Alexa Donne’s latest thriller is full of small town secrets

Pretty Dead Queens, the sophomore thriller from Alexa Donne, is a small town mystery full of intrigue with a disappointing ending.  The murder… Still emotionally devastated after her mother’s death, Cecilia has to move from sunny Southern California to a…

House of the Dragon After Show S1 E8: “The Lord of the Tides” [Podcast]

It’s Viserys’ swan song, and what a final episode it is. “The Lord of the Tides” has plenty of great family drama and the same politicking that Game of Thrones is known for. Someone even loses their head! Jose Cordova…

‘Till’ review: Racial justice filmmaking done right

Up until this point, there have been numerous films and documentaries centered around the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and how it ignited a crucial wave for the civil rights movement leading into the tumultuous 1960s. This latest film,…

‘The Starter Wife’ review: Daphne Parker Powell bares her heart on latest album

Folk-rock singer-songwriter Daphne Parker Powell, releases her sixth album, The Starter Wife, a collection of songs echoing the question of ‘what’s forever for?’ Powell shares, “This album is an exercise in ‘radical trust.’ Younger me believed his vows to have…