Nov 01, 2018
TV
The Good Place
In last week’s The Good Place episode, “The Ballad of Donkey Doug,” the show introduced Jason’s terrible father, Donkey Doug; in this week’s episode, “A Fractured Inheritance,” it reintroduces Eleanor’s terrible mother, Donna (Leslie Grossman).
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Nov 01, 2018
Music
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Birmingham-based and ludicrously named, Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam are a prolific bunch indeed. With over 100 songs posted online in the last couple of years, they’ve plenty to choose from when it comes to their debut album proper.
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Oct 31, 2018
DVDs
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Released in 2009 after a two-year delay, Trick ‘r Treat feels old-fashioned.
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Studio: IFC Films
Directed by Paul Dano
Oct 31, 2018
Cinema
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Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife focuses on a young boy, Joe (The Visit’s Ed Oxenbould), forced to act like an adult after witnessing the demise of his parents’ marriage in 1960’s Montana.
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Oct 31, 2018
Music
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Another gem of a reissue from the David Bowie vault, Loving the Alien, comprises Bowie’s three major hit albums from the ‘80s: a decade which, for Bowie, was perhaps his most varying, commercially successful, critically inconsistent, and adventurous era.
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Oct 30, 2018
Live
Phil Collins
Phil Collins last played Philadelphia 14 years ago. On this night, he returned a conquering hero.
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Oct 30, 2018
Music
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Cloud Nothings took a lot of people by surprise with their 2017 album, Life Without Sound. A cleaner, studio-friendly concoction, it was downright soft and tuneful compared with the work that had made them such underground darlings.
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Oct 29, 2018
Music
The Cranberries
This 25th Anniversary Edition of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We, is the perfect document of early Cranberries, fleshed out with b-sides, outtakes, demos, an early EP, live tracks, and radio sessions.
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Studio: VCI Entertainment
Oct 29, 2018
DVDs
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What otherwise might have been a rote whodunit in Mario Bava’s hands became a gorgeous, Technicolor murder show.
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Oct 26, 2018
Music
Thom Yorke
Anything Jonny Greenwood can do, Thom Yorke can at least have a go at. Greenwood branched into the world of movies over a decade ago, usually as Paul Thomas Anderson’s in-house composer.
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