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EVERY ST. VINCENT ALBUM RANKED Every St. Vincent Album Ranked. To celebrate the release of Daddy’s Home, we’ve ranked all seven of Annie Clark’s albums. A nnie Clark displays a remarkable facility for change, creating constantly morphing songs contained within a shifting panoply of modes, voices, and styles, cutting delicate, glittering pop with forceful fuzz and ROSTAM ‘CHANGEPHOBIA’ REVIEW: A BREEZY EMBRACE OF LACK OF D espite what the title of his sophomore album, Changephobia, might suggest, Rostam Batmanglij’s artistic achievements have been defined by his embrace of variety, exploration, and change.Batmanglij is a stylistic omnivore whose work with Vampire Weekend has exhibited forward-thinking genre flexibility, resulting in thrilling instrumental shifts between songs. BLU-RAY REVIEW: JOHN GUILLERMIN’S KING KONG JOINS THE The film follows the broad strokes of the original, but far from the nostalgic period style of Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake, this is a bitingly modern take on the material, even by today’s standards.Set against the backdrop of the decade’s energy crisis, this King Kong is about commerce from the get-go, jettisoning the original’s filmmaking plotline to focus squarely on corporate BEST HORROR MOVIES ON HULU RIGHT NOW (JUNE 2021) 7. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) A Quiet Place, like John Carpenter’s The Thing before it, contributes a strikingly original monster to the genre of horror films focused exclusively on surviving an invasive threat. The big bad at the center of John Krasinski’s film is a species of flesh-eating hellion that happens to be blind,and
MORGAN WADE ‘RECKLESS’ REVIEW: A RURAL POP ALBUM THAT Instead, Reckless revolves around issues like addiction, mental health, and isolation—plights that are central to exurban life but mostly ignored by the music that claims to represent that culture. Wade navigates these topics with stark, evocative storytelling. “Tonight I am numb from a cocktail of pills,” she sings on “Met You,” the album’s haunting final track.REVIEW: TERRAFERMA
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REVIEW: ELAINE MAY’S A NEW LEAF ON OLIVE FILMS SIGNATURE on Olive Films Signature Blu-ray. This black-hearted romantic comedy gets a sparkling new restoration and some solid supplements as part of Olive Films’s Signature line. F or her directorial debut, writer and actress Elaine May adapted a short story by Jack Ritchie titled “The Green Heart.”. An inveterate perfectionist, she reportedly REVIEW: THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL ON CRITERION Review: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival. on Criterion Blu-ray. D.A. Pennebaker’s thrilling account of the greatest of rock festivals looks better than ever on Criterion’s new release. D .A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop remains the definitive live document of the hippie era, a vivid portrait of a cultural movement still in itsascendancy.
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EVERY ST. VINCENT ALBUM RANKED Every St. Vincent Album Ranked. To celebrate the release of Daddy’s Home, we’ve ranked all seven of Annie Clark’s albums. A nnie Clark displays a remarkable facility for change, creating constantly morphing songs contained within a shifting panoply of modes, voices, and styles, cutting delicate, glittering pop with forceful fuzz and ROSTAM ‘CHANGEPHOBIA’ REVIEW: A BREEZY EMBRACE OF LACK OF D espite what the title of his sophomore album, Changephobia, might suggest, Rostam Batmanglij’s artistic achievements have been defined by his embrace of variety, exploration, and change.Batmanglij is a stylistic omnivore whose work with Vampire Weekend has exhibited forward-thinking genre flexibility, resulting in thrilling instrumental shifts between songs. BLU-RAY REVIEW: JOHN GUILLERMIN’S KING KONG JOINS THE The film follows the broad strokes of the original, but far from the nostalgic period style of Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake, this is a bitingly modern take on the material, even by today’s standards.Set against the backdrop of the decade’s energy crisis, this King Kong is about commerce from the get-go, jettisoning the original’s filmmaking plotline to focus squarely on corporate BEST HORROR MOVIES ON HULU RIGHT NOW (JUNE 2021) 7. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) A Quiet Place, like John Carpenter’s The Thing before it, contributes a strikingly original monster to the genre of horror films focused exclusively on surviving an invasive threat. The big bad at the center of John Krasinski’s film is a species of flesh-eating hellion that happens to be blind,and
MORGAN WADE ‘RECKLESS’ REVIEW: A RURAL POP ALBUM THAT Instead, Reckless revolves around issues like addiction, mental health, and isolation—plights that are central to exurban life but mostly ignored by the music that claims to represent that culture. Wade navigates these topics with stark, evocative storytelling. “Tonight I am numb from a cocktail of pills,” she sings on “Met You,” the album’s haunting final track.REVIEW: TERRAFERMA
Review: Terraferma. Review: Terraferma. E manuele Crialese’s Terraforma takes place on Linosa, an island off the coast of Italy so small that, as one character sadly points out, you can’t find it on a globe. The fishing industry that once thrived there is dying, a passing that we witness through the lives of one family, whosepatriarch
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REVIEW: ELAINE MAY’S A NEW LEAF ON OLIVE FILMS SIGNATURE on Olive Films Signature Blu-ray. This black-hearted romantic comedy gets a sparkling new restoration and some solid supplements as part of Olive Films’s Signature line. F or her directorial debut, writer and actress Elaine May adapted a short story by Jack Ritchie titled “The Green Heart.”. An inveterate perfectionist, she reportedly REVIEW: THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL ON CRITERION Review: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival. on Criterion Blu-ray. D.A. Pennebaker’s thrilling account of the greatest of rock festivals looks better than ever on Criterion’s new release. D .A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop remains the definitive live document of the hippie era, a vivid portrait of a cultural movement still in itsascendancy.
THE 100 BEST WESTERNS OF ALL TIME Pat Brown. Editor’s Note: Many of the films on our list can be found on the Criterion Channel, IFC Films Unlimited, Netflix, and TCM. 100. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939) If John Ford was, per Jonathan Lethem, “a poet in black and white,” he became a sharp impressionist in color. The finely calibrated stillness of his shots BEST HORROR MOVIES ON HULU RIGHT NOW (JUNE 2021) 7. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) A Quiet Place, like John Carpenter’s The Thing before it, contributes a strikingly original monster to the genre of horror films focused exclusively on surviving an invasive threat. The big bad at the center of John Krasinski’s film is a species of flesh-eating hellion that happens to be blind,and
CANNES 2021: DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT LINEUP INCLUDES JOANNA O ne day after the Cannes Film Festival announced its Critic’s Week lineup, and that F9 is the mystery blockbuster that will screen on the beach, the festival has revealed the features and shorts that will screen in its prestigious Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The buzziest title in the lineup is The Souvenir Part II, Joanna Hogg’s follow-upto The Souvenir.
TICK, TICK...BOOM! TRAILER: ANDREW GARFIELD GOES OFF IN 1 day ago · O ne day after Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights kicked off the Tribeca Film Festival, Netflix has dropped the teaser trailer for Miranda’s feature-length directorial debut, tick, tickBOOM!.The film, an adaptation of Rent creator Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play, will hit the streaming service in the fall. LORDE’S 'SOLAR POWER' IS A BREEZY, PERFECTLY TIMED SUMMER 1 day ago · Lorde’s brand of minimalist pop helped prime the pump for artists like Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, and now the former teen phenom is poised to steal back some of the spotlight. The 24-year-old singer announced that new music was imminent when she posted the cover art for “Solar Power” on THE 25 BEST HORROR GAMES OF ALL TIME 24. Castlevania: Bloodlines (1993) The gothic-themed Castlevania games have always featured a wide assortment of iconic scary figures, from Frankenstein to the Grim Reaper to primary antagonist Dracula. But it wasn’t until 1993, with the release of Castlevania: Bloodlines, that the series achieved a more chilling and disorienting brand of horror, with platforms that inexplicably drip blood ‘KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF’ REVIEW: A MISHMASH OF FAMILIAR J ust about any casual sitcom viewer will recognize the predicament that ensnares Allison McRoberts (Annie Murphy) in AMC’s Kevin Can F**k Himself.Her husband, Kevin, (Eric Petersen) is a boorish man-child, a cable guy who’s prone to coming up with hare-brained schemes and using a little whiteboard to track how many times he’s “won” against the world. THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED 25. “Debra”. Midnite Vultures exists largely as satire, but it also serves as an opportunity for the usually cryptic Beck to let his freak flag fly. On the epic, cheesy “Debra,” he hoists it way, way up, further establishing the absurdity of the album’s seedy narcissism by attempting to pick up sisters. The greatest moment here JESSIE WARE DROPS 'PLATINUM PLEASURE EDITION' OF 'WHAT’S 1 day ago · One year after the release of her critically acclaimed What’s Your Pleasure?, British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware has dropped the “Platinum Pleasure Edition” of the album, featuring a whopping six new songs as well as her 2018 single “Overtime” and a previously released remix of “Adore GARBAGE ‘NO GODS NO MASTERS’ REVIEW: A BRASH MIX OF THE Review: Garbage’s. No Gods No Masters. Is a Brash Mix of the Personal and Political. The album’s eclectic approach is a testament to the band’s refusal to simply mine the same sonic ground over and over again. M ore than a quarter of a century since the release of their self-titled debut, Garbage continues to maintain their distinct SLANT MAGAZINEFILMMUSICGAMESTVFEATURESNEWS Slant Magazine brings you reviews and interviews on movies, film festivals, music, live concerts, TV shows, video games, home video,books, and theater.
THE 100 BEST SINGLES OF THE AUGHTS 100. M.I.A., “Sunshowers” I first heard M.I.A.’s “Sunshowers” at, of all places, a Matthew Williamson fashion show. A runway is not the venue you expect to hear about gun culture, the Iraq War, the PLO, snipers, racial profiling, and sweatshops, but those are just some of the topics that M.I.A. managed to squeeze into the three-minute sophomore single from her debut album Arular. THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED 25. “Debra”. Midnite Vultures exists largely as satire, but it also serves as an opportunity for the usually cryptic Beck to let his freak flag fly. On the epic, cheesy “Debra,” he hoists it way, way up, further establishing the absurdity of the album’s seedy narcissism by attempting to pick up sisters. The greatest moment here EVERY BJÖRK ALBUM RANKED 9. Medúlla (2004) By the turn of the 21st century, Björk’s albums had become progressively more progressive, stretching the boundaries of both contemporary pop and electronic music, challenging the way we hear words and melodies. Medúlla, the title of which references the inner core of certain organs or body structures (the essence of MORGAN WADE ‘RECKLESS’ REVIEW: A RURAL POP ALBUM THAT Instead, Reckless revolves around issues like addiction, mental health, and isolation—plights that are central to exurban life but mostly ignored by the music that claims to represent that culture. Wade navigates these topics with stark, evocative storytelling. “Tonight I am numb from a cocktail of pills,” she sings on “Met You,” the album’s haunting final track. REVIEW: CHANCE: SEASON ONE Review: Chance: Season One. H ugh Laurie’s House character was marked by a profound lack of change. In Chance, the actor also plays a doctor, but Eldon Chance does almost nothing but change. The only question, highlighted by Chance’s role as a consulting neuropsychiatrist, is whether that change is a conscious one or theresult of one of
REVIEW: THE EAGLES, LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN Review: The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden. F ar more than Hank Williams, Buck Owens, or even Johnny Cash, it’s the Eagles who have had far greater influence than any other act in modern mainstream country music. Despite the country inflections that have always been present in their brand of roots-rock, the band hasn’t always beenembraced
THE 20 BEST HORROR MOVIES ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL Carson Lund. 14. Onibaba (1964) Long identified with either the epic samurai saga or intimate domestic drama, Japan has staked a more contemporary international claim on the horror genre. But these roots stretch back as far as any larger trend. Kaneto Shindô’s Onibaba, for one, is something of a mid-century classic, a stylistically REVIEW: ASHLEY MONROE’S ROSEGOLD FAVORS AESTHETICS OVER Favors Aesthetics Over Substance. The album finds the singer venturing outside of country music’s boundaries but taking few risks beyond the act of reinvention itself. O ne of country music’s preeminent neo-traditionalists, Ashley Monroe has explored a discrete aspect of the genre on each of her albums to date, from the steel guitar-driven DEADWOOD RECAP: SEASON 3, EPISODE 12, “TELL HIM SOMETHING From Heather Havrilesky's columnn over at Salon: "The start of the third season finale of "Deadwood," thespian Jack Langrishe serves as the Greek chorus, giving voice to the darkening clouds looming over the tiny South Dakota town. "This camp is in mortal danger!" he laments. "The man, Hearst, is a murderous engine. SLANT MAGAZINEFILMMUSICGAMESTVFEATURESNEWS Slant Magazine brings you reviews and interviews on movies, film festivals, music, live concerts, TV shows, video games, home video,books, and theater.
THE 100 BEST SINGLES OF THE AUGHTS 100. M.I.A., “Sunshowers” I first heard M.I.A.’s “Sunshowers” at, of all places, a Matthew Williamson fashion show. A runway is not the venue you expect to hear about gun culture, the Iraq War, the PLO, snipers, racial profiling, and sweatshops, but those are just some of the topics that M.I.A. managed to squeeze into the three-minute sophomore single from her debut album Arular. THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED 25. “Debra”. Midnite Vultures exists largely as satire, but it also serves as an opportunity for the usually cryptic Beck to let his freak flag fly. On the epic, cheesy “Debra,” he hoists it way, way up, further establishing the absurdity of the album’s seedy narcissism by attempting to pick up sisters. The greatest moment here EVERY BJÖRK ALBUM RANKED 9. Medúlla (2004) By the turn of the 21st century, Björk’s albums had become progressively more progressive, stretching the boundaries of both contemporary pop and electronic music, challenging the way we hear words and melodies. Medúlla, the title of which references the inner core of certain organs or body structures (the essence of MORGAN WADE ‘RECKLESS’ REVIEW: A RURAL POP ALBUM THAT Instead, Reckless revolves around issues like addiction, mental health, and isolation—plights that are central to exurban life but mostly ignored by the music that claims to represent that culture. Wade navigates these topics with stark, evocative storytelling. “Tonight I am numb from a cocktail of pills,” she sings on “Met You,” the album’s haunting final track. REVIEW: CHANCE: SEASON ONE Review: Chance: Season One. H ugh Laurie’s House character was marked by a profound lack of change. In Chance, the actor also plays a doctor, but Eldon Chance does almost nothing but change. The only question, highlighted by Chance’s role as a consulting neuropsychiatrist, is whether that change is a conscious one or theresult of one of
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THE 20 BEST HORROR MOVIES ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL Carson Lund. 14. Onibaba (1964) Long identified with either the epic samurai saga or intimate domestic drama, Japan has staked a more contemporary international claim on the horror genre. But these roots stretch back as far as any larger trend. Kaneto Shindô’s Onibaba, for one, is something of a mid-century classic, a stylistically REVIEW: ASHLEY MONROE’S ROSEGOLD FAVORS AESTHETICS OVER Favors Aesthetics Over Substance. The album finds the singer venturing outside of country music’s boundaries but taking few risks beyond the act of reinvention itself. O ne of country music’s preeminent neo-traditionalists, Ashley Monroe has explored a discrete aspect of the genre on each of her albums to date, from the steel guitar-driven DEADWOOD RECAP: SEASON 3, EPISODE 12, “TELL HIM SOMETHING From Heather Havrilesky's columnn over at Salon: "The start of the third season finale of "Deadwood," thespian Jack Langrishe serves as the Greek chorus, giving voice to the darkening clouds looming over the tiny South Dakota town. "This camp is in mortal danger!" he laments. "The man, Hearst, is a murderous engine. THE 100 BEST WESTERNS OF ALL TIME Pat Brown. Editor’s Note: Many of the films on our list can be found on the Criterion Channel, IFC Films Unlimited, Netflix, and TCM. 100. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939) If John Ford was, per Jonathan Lethem, “a poet in black and white,” he became a sharp impressionist in color. The finely calibrated stillness of his shots GARBAGE ‘NO GODS NO MASTERS’ REVIEW: A BRASH MIX OF THE The album’s eclectic approach is a testament to the band’s refusal to simply mine the same sonic ground over and over again. Singer Shirley Manson has cited Roxy Music as the band’s muse for No Gods No Masters, but Depeche Mode is a more obvious analogue, especially on “Godhead,” which 'THE CARNIVORES' REVIEW: A JOLTING TAKE ON LOVE AS A The characters don’t exist solely to affirm the film’s various themes, and as a result, their humanity gets under your skin. Johnson’s aesthetic is an expression of alienation, but the filmmaker is willing to do more than tread the surface of this state of mind. The disconnection between 'THE MISFITS' REVIEW: A BLAST FROM THE PAST, FOR BETTER 23 hours ago · The film is almost refreshing in its flightiness, even as it remains defiantly ignorant of the world in which it exists. Renny Harlin’s The Misfits begins with an onslaught of cheeky exposition, introducing us to the titular group of criminals, latter-day Robin Hoods who specialize in stealing REVIEW: MARCELL JANKOVICS’S SON OF THE WHITE MARE ON 1 day ago · Son of the White Mare is a masterpiece of the medium that deserves a place of honor on every collector’s shelf. During a 2020 one-on-one interview conducted at the Hungarian National Film Archive, Marcell Jankovics recounts a meeting with a photographerwhose
'AWAKE' REVIEW: THE INSOMNIA APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED 17 hours ago · The outbreak of the crisis is also, both ironically and fittingly, the moment that the film itself seems to stall out. Whatever suspense the family’s car accident generates is undercut by a befuddling—but, as it will turn out, highly plot-relevant—moment that asks viewers to forget that we’ve been following the crash in real time alongside the family. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: NINE MAE WEST FILMS ON KL STUDIO 1 day ago · That canny rescue job gave West the power to adapt her biggest stage hit, 1928’s Diamond Lil, four years later as She Done Him Wrong.Lowell Sherman’s still-fresh crime comedy, set in the Gay Nineties, won her stardom, and it led to her best film the subsequent year, Wesley Ruggles’s I’m No Angel.West’s showgirl character, Tira, is first seen doing a shimmy, driving gross men to THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED 25. “Debra”. Midnite Vultures exists largely as satire, but it also serves as an opportunity for the usually cryptic Beck to let his freak flag fly. On the epic, cheesy “Debra,” he hoists it way, way up, further establishing the absurdity of the album’s seedy narcissism by attempting to pick up sisters. The greatest moment here ‘KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF’ REVIEW: A MISHMASH OF FAMILIAR 1 day ago · J ust about any casual sitcom viewer will recognize the predicament that ensnares Allison McRoberts (Annie Murphy) in AMC’s Kevin Can F**k Himself.Her husband, Kevin, (Eric Petersen) is a boorish man-child, a cable guy who’s prone to coming up with hare-brained schemes and using a little whiteboard to track how many times he’s “won” against the world. 'ASIA' REVIEW: A MOVING MOTHER-DAUGHTER DRAMA ABOUT THE W riter-director Ruthy Pribar’s Asia opens—in what is perhaps the only purely ebullient sequence in the film—with the eponymous character (Alena Yiv) partying and flirting at a nightclub. Asia works as a nurse and is a single mother to the teenaged Vika (Shira Haas), but given her carefree attitude at the club on what turns out to be a work night, you’d be forgiven for thinking she was SLANT MAGAZINEFILMMUSICGAMESTVFEATURESNEWS Slant Magazine brings you reviews and interviews on movies, film festivals, music, live concerts, TV shows, video games, home video,books, and theater.
THE 100 BEST FILM NOIRS OF ALL TIME P urists will argue that film noir was born in 1941 with the release of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon and died in 1958 with Marlene Dietrich traipsing down a long, dark, lonely road at the end of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil.And while this period contains the quintessence of what Italian-born French film critic Nino Frank originally characterized as film noir, the genre has always been THE 100 BEST WESTERNS OF ALL TIME Pat Brown. Editor’s Note: Many of the films on our list can be found on the Criterion Channel, IFC Films Unlimited, Netflix, and TCM. 100. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939) If John Ford was, per Jonathan Lethem, “a poet in black and white,” he became a sharp impressionist in color. The finely calibrated stillness of his shots REVIEW: THE LOOMING TOWER Review: The Looming Tower. The series suggests the failure of U.S. intelligence in the years before 9/11 was one of imagination. T hough grave, The Looming Tower is hardly a patriotic hagiography for the lawmen who doggedly, and fruitlessly, pursued Osama bin Laden throughout the 1990s. The Hulu series outlines the cocktail of hubris EVERY BJÖRK ALBUM RANKED 9. Medúlla (2004) By the turn of the 21st century, Björk’s albums had become progressively more progressive, stretching the boundaries of both contemporary pop and electronic music, challenging the way we hear words and melodies. Medúlla, the title of which references the inner core of certain organs or body structures (the essence of THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED B eck’s breakout hit, “Loser,” represented the sound of the nation’s youth wearing their slackerdom as a badge of honor. It’s a rather dubious fate for the workmanlike track, considering that if Gen X ever “had” a sound, it was the slow, snarling grunge roiling out of the Pacific Northwest, a genre far too self-possessed and clumsily aggressive to match the decidedly goofy appeal REVIEW: WALK ON WATER Review: Walk on Water. Share. Tweet. I n Eytan Fox’s Walk on Water, the Sea of Galilee is paved with good intentions. Eyal ( Late Marriage ‘s Lior Ashkenazi) is an Israeli agent in charge of eliminating terrorists for the Moosad task force. Hired to assassinate a Nazi war criminal, Eyal gets chummy with the octogenarian’s grandchildren REVIEW: DANCES WITH WOLVES Review: Dances with Wolves. E arly on in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves, a disturbed military bigwig tells Costner’s Lt. John Dunbar, “I have just pissed in my pants, and nobody can do anything about it.”. The same can be said about Academy members in 1990, who famously screwed Martin Scorsese out of the Best Director statuettefor
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THE 100 BEST FILM NOIRS OF ALL TIME P urists will argue that film noir was born in 1941 with the release of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon and died in 1958 with Marlene Dietrich traipsing down a long, dark, lonely road at the end of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil.And while this period contains the quintessence of what Italian-born French film critic Nino Frank originally characterized as film noir, the genre has always been THE 100 BEST WESTERNS OF ALL TIME Pat Brown. Editor’s Note: Many of the films on our list can be found on the Criterion Channel, IFC Films Unlimited, Netflix, and TCM. 100. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939) If John Ford was, per Jonathan Lethem, “a poet in black and white,” he became a sharp impressionist in color. The finely calibrated stillness of his shots REVIEW: THE LOOMING TOWER Review: The Looming Tower. The series suggests the failure of U.S. intelligence in the years before 9/11 was one of imagination. T hough grave, The Looming Tower is hardly a patriotic hagiography for the lawmen who doggedly, and fruitlessly, pursued Osama bin Laden throughout the 1990s. The Hulu series outlines the cocktail of hubris EVERY BJÖRK ALBUM RANKED 9. Medúlla (2004) By the turn of the 21st century, Björk’s albums had become progressively more progressive, stretching the boundaries of both contemporary pop and electronic music, challenging the way we hear words and melodies. Medúlla, the title of which references the inner core of certain organs or body structures (the essence of THE 25 GREATEST BECK SONGS, RANKED B eck’s breakout hit, “Loser,” represented the sound of the nation’s youth wearing their slackerdom as a badge of honor. It’s a rather dubious fate for the workmanlike track, considering that if Gen X ever “had” a sound, it was the slow, snarling grunge roiling out of the Pacific Northwest, a genre far too self-possessed and clumsily aggressive to match the decidedly goofy appeal REVIEW: WALK ON WATER Review: Walk on Water. Share. Tweet. I n Eytan Fox’s Walk on Water, the Sea of Galilee is paved with good intentions. Eyal ( Late Marriage ‘s Lior Ashkenazi) is an Israeli agent in charge of eliminating terrorists for the Moosad task force. Hired to assassinate a Nazi war criminal, Eyal gets chummy with the octogenarian’s grandchildren REVIEW: DANCES WITH WOLVES Review: Dances with Wolves. E arly on in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves, a disturbed military bigwig tells Costner’s Lt. John Dunbar, “I have just pissed in my pants, and nobody can do anything about it.”. The same can be said about Academy members in 1990, who famously screwed Martin Scorsese out of the Best Director statuettefor
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