Studio: Adopt Films
Directed by Martin Provost
Jun 12, 2014
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If you’re not familiar with French feminist author Violette Leduc, you might not come away from Martin Provost’s biopic with any greater a sense of her allure.
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Jun 12, 2014
Music
Hundred Waters
Hundred Waters’ new album is one of those that functions best under specific circumstances: in particular, late at night, with headphones on. Listening alone is probably best, too.
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Studio: A24
Directed by David Michod
Jun 11, 2014
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David Michod has no problem selling his audience a society driven by guns and gasoline, “ten years after a collapse of the Western economic system.”
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Jun 11, 2014
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After a couple long years of quietude, Craft Spells (the songwriting vehicle of dream pop scholar Justin Vallesteros) reemerge with Nausea. The album shares a name with a Sartre novel about existential angst.
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Studio: IFC Midnight
Directed by Alex de la Iglesia
Jun 10, 2014
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Alex de la Iglesia’s horror-comedy Witching and Bitching lives up to the silliness of its title.
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Jun 10, 2014
Music
The Fresh & Onlys
Up to this point, just about every new release from The Fresh & Onlys has offered us the singularly bittersweet pleasure of greeting new, unexpected sonic gestures while melancholically waving goodbye to certain tics we’ve grown fond of. It was a peculiarly rewarding give-and-take, with each successive album and EP betraying glimmers of The Onlys’ prior recorded lives, yet bravely looking onward.
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Jun 09, 2014
TV
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[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones, “The Watchers on the Wall,” then read no further.]
The Game of Thrones producers sure pulled a risky stunt by extending last week’s cliffhanger over one more week, but minutes into “The Watchers on the Wall” and Tyrion’s fate is the last thing on anyone’s mind.
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Studio: Outsider Pictures
Directed by Amat Escalante
Jun 09, 2014
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Drug-related killings in Mexico are daily news in the Americas, and Heli is a unique, at times difficult, look at how the violence affects every-day people.
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Jun 09, 2014
Books
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The Good Inn, the collaborative work of Pixies frontman Black Francis and writer Josh Frank, is the part-fact, part-fiction tale of Soldier Boy and how he finds himself the star of the first narrative pornographic film.
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