Studio: A24
Directed by James Ponsoldt
Jul 30, 2015
Cinema
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James Ponsoldt’s latest film recounts the five days writer David Lipsky spent interviewing David Foster Wallace on a promotional tour for his landmark novel, Infinite Jest.
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Jul 30, 2015
Music
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This is a flowery psych-folk album that musters little more than consistent pleasantness.
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Jul 29, 2015
TV
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Big time content producers like Netflix are currently in the business of reviving cult classics—in the loosest sense of the word, as the foreboding Fuller House looms on the horizon—but even die-hard fans of David Wain’s 2001 movie comedy Wet Hot American Summer were probably as confused as the masses by the announcement of a prequel series.
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DC
Written by David F. Walker, Art by Ivan Reis
Jul 29, 2015
Comic Books
DC Comics
Cyborg returns to S.T.A.R. labs following his death and regeneration at the end of Convergence, and his debut issue is a mixed bag of sci-fi weirdness and mopey characterization.
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Jul 29, 2015
Music
Mates of State
When you’ve been a band for 15 years, there comes a time to look at your output and decide if it’s worth it to keep going. Mates of State‘s new EP, You’re Going to Make It, is the reassurance that comes just before that final quarter of a race.
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Studio: eOne
Written and Directed by Nadeem Soumah
Jul 29, 2015
Cinema
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Sonny “Sundown” Garcia might be the most powerful and richest cocaine dealer in North America, but that doesn’t mean he’s un-killable.
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Jul 29, 2015
Music
Prinzhorn Dance School
Prinzhorn Dance School‘s albums never sound as labored as you’d think. Clay Class, the duo’s previous release, found Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn spending 260 consecutive days in the studio without ever once leaving, per their own testimony.
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Jul 28, 2015
DVDs
The Rolling Stones
On July 5, 1969, half a million people, or so it was reported, flocked to Hyde Park in London to see The Rolling Stones for a free gig two days after the death of Brian Jones.
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Jul 28, 2015
DVDs
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A fun and original sci-fi feature from a decade that produced many of them.
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