What otherwise might have been a rote whodunit in Mario Bava’s hands became a gorgeous, Technicolor murder show.

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.

Blaze benefits from the relative obscurity of its subject.

In “The Ballad of Donkey Doug,” The Good Place‘s first episode since shifting its plot to focus on the Soul Squad (fka the Brainy Bunch) saving people other than themselves, the show asks a question it’s previously explored only superficially. Are some people not worth saving?

The joyful journey through this bundle of ham and cheese cannot be equaled in any other work.

It’s difficult to guess which achievement will stand tallest within John Carpenter’s impressive legacy. With 1978’s Halloween, the director not only laid the foundation for the slasher film, likely the most prevalent subgenre in American horror, but served as an inspiration to low-budget independent filmmakers for generations to come.

In naming Aviary, her studio follow-up to 2015’s Have You in My Wilderness, Julia Holter took inspiration from a line from a 2009 short story by Lebanese-American poet and essayist Etel Adnan: “I found myself in an aviary full of shrieking birds.”

One of the absolute best films to hit the festival circuit in 2018.

For Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s fifth album, the Finnish solo artist delves into a musical style that is not easily classifiable. It could described as a warm and lithesome blending of lounge pop, smooth jazz and adult contemporary that at times is inconsistently brewed.