Apr 09, 2014
Music
White Hinterland
Pop and indie rock continue to consume each other as the millennium progresses, and Casey Dienel has positioned White Hinterland uniquely between the two, slowly migrating away from her earlier jazz inclinations (although they certainly still permeate her melodic sensibility and ambitious songwriting).
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Studio: Relativity Media
Directed by Mike Flanagan
Apr 09, 2014
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Writer-director Mike Flanagan milks a setup that sounds like typical, b-movie chaff—a killer mirror, really?—and through clever tricks and smart editing, turns it into one of the scarier American horror flicks we’ve seen in some time.
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Apr 08, 2014
Music
Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
Silent Treatment is the international debut full-length from Oslo five-piece Highasakite. It follows a couple of Norwegian releases and 2012’s excellent In and Out of Weeks EP, the latter of which includes the band’s majestic, soaring pop song “Indian Summer.”
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Apr 08, 2014
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A film about a family embroiled in an alien invasion could be a ton of fun if done well; Alien Abduction isn’t done poorly, per se, but it’s not at all entertaining.
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Apr 07, 2014
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Game of Thrones is back, which means it’s another couple months of brutality, mystery, political intrigue, and, oh yeah, dragons. I have not read the books, so no spoilers past “Two Swords” will be seen here.
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Apr 07, 2014
Music
Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
The latest solo effort from Field Music’s David Brewis captures the melodic sophistication we’ve come to expect from his group efforts, but more focused and restrained. Old Fears is a glitchy, synth-infused album of blissful white-boy funk in a neat 35-minute package.
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Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Directed by Denis Hennelly
Apr 07, 2014
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Armageddon is little more than the precipitating incident that gets the cast together, at which point the film becomes like any other partner swap tale.
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Apr 06, 2014
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The last time The Walking Dead delivered a season finale, the response was mixed, to put it delicately. In season three, fans wanted a satisfying payoff to the season-long buildup to war between The Governor and the Team Grimes prison group, and what they got was little more than an inept attack, a hasty retreat, and The Governor losing his mind and slaughtering his own army.
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Apr 04, 2014
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William Gibson-a founding father of the now-classic science-fiction subgenre called cyberpunk-has said that SF strain has become a “standard Pantone shade in pop culture.” (The question of cyberpunk’s fate had been posed to him in a fantastic Motherboard article by SF critic-and YACHT member-Claire Evans.)
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Studio: A24
Jonathan Glazer
Apr 04, 2014
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Jonathan Glazer and Scarlett Johansson craft a visionary, thought-provoking sci-fi masterpiece.
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