Nov 14, 2014
Music
The Flaming Lips
Anyone lamenting The Flaming Lips’ later work as too experimental and inaccessible might find With a Little Help From My Fwends a refreshing detour. Not because it breaks from that trend—it doesn’t—but because the safety of a classic Beatles record allows them to stretch their experimental legs while still producing a grounded experience.
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Studio: Open Road
Directed by Jon Stewart
Nov 14, 2014
Cinema
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The first film by The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart is also a rare trek into dramatic waters.
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Nov 13, 2014
Music
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Hold My Home moves in several directions at once, each with varying degrees of success. The celebratory New Wave drive of “Hotel Anywhere” and the title track suit Cold War Kids well, like the optimistic side of the more solemn synthpop Lonelyheartscoin.
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Studio: Roadside Attractions
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Nov 13, 2014
Cinema
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The third directorial effort by star and co-writer Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is by turns a post-modern western, a tragic portrait of historical feminism, and an odd-couple odyssey in the vein of The African Queen.
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HAERTS: HAERTS (Columbia)
Nov 12, 2014
Music
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It has been two years since the slow-burning perfection of HAERTS’ debut single “Wings” emerged; its elegiac vocals, wide-open spaces, and resolutely defiant surges established the template for their EP, which arrived a year later.
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Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Bennett Miller
Nov 12, 2014
Cinema
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In the mid-1980s, John E. du Pont – of the DuPont chemicals dynasty – invited Olympian wrestler Mark Schultz out to his 440-acre Pennsylvania farm with designs to turn part of his private complex into a wrestler training facility.
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First Second
Emmanuel Guibert
Nov 11, 2014
Comic Books
Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J
Emmanuel Guibert’s introspective and intimate biographical account of his dear friend Alan Cope’s early childhood is as beautifully drawn as it is compellingly written.
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Nov 11, 2014
Music
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Hookworms’ debut, Pearl Mystic, was widely feted-our friends at Drowned in Sound named it Album of the Year-so interest is high the second time around. For most fivesomes made up of 20-somethings, the pressure and weight of expectation could be stifling; for this Yorkshire band, the opposite is true.
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Studio: Starz
Directed by Simon & Zeke Hawkins
Nov 11, 2014
Cinema
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Sibling directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins turn in a commendable effort with this indie crime thriller.
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BBC America, Saturdays 9/8 Central
Nov 10, 2014
TV
Doctor Who
Here we are at the end of another season of Doctor Who, and all things considered the series has moved pretty far in the last 12 weeks. We’re quite comfortable with Peter Capaldi in the TARDIS at this point, and showrunner Steven Moffat has made good on his promise to take the show to darker places.
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