Death in Venice follows the great composer Gustav von Aschenbach, who has come to Venice to ease his failing physical and mental health, following several personal tragedies and his waning professional career.

When Rivers Cuomo’s Californian crew rode the post-grunge wave to glory on their debut Blue Album and heart-worn classic follow-up Pinkerton in 1994 and 1996 respectively, we never could have imagined just how saddening and crushingly disappointing Weezer’s career would be over the next 20+ years.

It’s a slog, sometimes, picking through the generic to find the specific, more so to find the specifically good. It’s not that there’s anything truly awful about Said The Whale or this, their sixth album and first since the departure of their longtime rhythm section, but there’s also little to be said in favor of them either.

Last Action Hero works just as much as it doesn’t, and there’s more than enough in there to make it worth revisiting for any ‘80s and ‘90s action fan.

Some albums articulate themselves like finely chiseled sculptures. They depict the diverse panoply of sensation through a shared sensibility that elevates the disparate snapshots into a common aesthetic approach that holds them all together.

I honestly don’t know why, when I ordered my chamomile green tea at the café inside of teamLab Borderless, I thought I’d just be drinking tea.

The title for Helado Negro‘s spectral and triumphant seventh studio album—This Is How You Smile—derives from a Jamaica Kincaid story titled “Girl” that is narrated from the perspective of a mother giving her daughter advice on how to survive in the world.

A yuppie couple (David Duchovny & Michelle Forbes) pick up a serial killer (Brad Pitt) and his young girlfriend (Juliette Lewis) for a cross-country road trip in 1993’s Kalifornia.

Leaving Neverland, a sprawling account of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson, was set for controversy from the moment it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.