Apr 23, 2014
Music
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It has been only a year since The Mary Onettes released its last album, Hit the Waves, and the Swedish four-piece is back with the brand new mini-album, Portico:.
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Apr 22, 2014
TV
Game of Thrones
[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones, “Breaker of Chains,” then read no further.] Last week’s episode ended on such a high point—Joffrey’s lifeless, poisoned face—it was a pretty clever move opening this week on the exact same shot.
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Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Charlie Paul
Apr 22, 2014
Cinema
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An intriguing look at artist Ralph Steadman, with a particularly captivating focus on his lifelong relationship with the combustible Hunter S. Thompson.
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Apr 22, 2014
Music
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Maybe Jimi Goodwin got bored. Best known as frontman of post-Britpop outfit Doves, the Manchester veteran spent much of his career producing expansive guitar sounds that rarely deviated from type.
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Apr 21, 2014
Music
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Eels’ Mark Everett has never been known for his optimism. Even in its sunniest moments, his music is always cut with an element of spiraling introversion. So with a title like The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett, it’s pretty clear album number 11 isn’t going to be all shits and giggles.
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Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Directed by Lucia Puenzo
Apr 21, 2014
Cinema
Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
The German Doctor is centered on a stoic performance by Àlex Brendemühl, whose Mengele is a departure from the mustache-twirling villains of Marathon Man and The Boys from Brazil.
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Studio: Drafthouse Films
Directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math
Apr 18, 2014
Cinema
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“Siggi” Hjartarson is the founder and curator the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world’s only permanent collection of penises.
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Apr 18, 2014
Music
Odonis Odonis
A well-titled second album from Toronto’s self-described “industrial surf-gazers” Odonis Odonis: Hard Boiled Soft Boiled sees the band and their walls of noise flitting from the pulverizing to the drunkenly delicate.
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Apr 17, 2014
Music
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Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, has always been caught between his gifted touch as a composer and his compulsion for spectacle.
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Studio: IFC Films
Directed by Patrice Leconte
Apr 17, 2014
Cinema
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A Promise is almost as much an exercise in patience for its viewers as it is for its separated lovers.
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