Jun 29, 2015
Music
Everything Everything
Everything Everything is a U.K. band that makes the kind of music now championed by slightly younger groups like alt-J and Adult Jazz. Their first two albums, 2010’s Man Alive and 2013’s Arc, were experimentally-minded approaches to pop that took pure melody and shoved it through a digital filter of off-kilter chord progressions and unusual, reverb-less falsetto vocals courtesy of frontman Jonathan Higgs.
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Written and Drawn by Bryan Hitch
Jun 29, 2015
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The world is about to end, and Armageddon is precipitated by Superman’s impending death in DC’s newest Justice League of America series.
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Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Jun 29, 2015
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Dudes get kicked exactly 40 times in An Eye For An Eye, making it one of the better of Chuck Norris’ 1980s star vehicles.
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Jun 29, 2015
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In The Pop Festival, the music festival is put under the scholarly microscope in 14 separate essays, each written by a scholar in his or her field and taking on a particular aspect of the “festival” in all its different iterations.
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Studio: Participant Media
Directed by Marc Silver
Jun 29, 2015
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A white, middle-aged man opened fire on four armed teenagers, an event that is the subject of Marc Silver’s latest documentary 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets.
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Studio: Netflix
Directed by Liz Garbus
Jun 26, 2015
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Garbus’ revealing documentary not only tracks the musician’s life and rise to stardom, but pulls into focus many of the sad reasons behind Nina Simone’s retreat from the public eye.
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Jun 26, 2015
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Refused were a Swedish post-hardcore punk group who split up in 1998 after failing to overthrow capitalism. Eventually, they succumbed to temptation and embraced the whole lucrative reformation package.
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Jun 26, 2015
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Loaded with unforgettable visuals, most frames of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders could pass as Hipgnosis album art.
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Written by Brenden Fletcher, Art by Annie Wu, Coloring by Lee Loughridge
Jun 25, 2015
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Black Canary goes rock ‘n’ roll in her refreshing new series, which is part of DC’s “DC You” relaunched line of comics. Like many of DC’s characters, Black Canary has been around for almost 70 years in some version or another, first debuting in Flash Comics #86 in August 1947.
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Studio: Starz
Directed by Jay Martin
Jun 25, 2015
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7 Minutes taps into post-Tarantino comi-crime clichés, but updates them with an awful, modern, bro-y vibe.
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