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Feb 06, 2017 DVDs Web Exclusive

Kino Lorber have done their part in boosting Buster Keaton’s legacy with various special editions over the years, but with two new dual pack releases they present perhaps the best-ever opportunity for new fans to be introduced to the great comedian and filmmaker’s works.

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Feb 06, 2017 Music Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Formed in 2012, Washington, D.C.‘s Priests have followed up their 2014 EP Bodies and Control and Money and Power with their debut full-length, Nothing Feels Natural.

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Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison

Studio: HBO
Directed by Kristi Jacobson

Feb 06, 2017 Cinema Web Exclusive

The Red Onion State Prison super max facility is home to scores of the commonwealth’s most dangerous offenders.

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Feb 03, 2017 TV Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Fox’s first reboot of 24, 2014’s Live Another Day, was a success because it really was that: a reboot, with a shortened season, a relocation to England, and a good blend of old (including Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer) and newactually new, rather than simply renamed and recastcharacters. A tired series was reinvigorated, fans took interest again and lessons were learnt, right?

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Feb 03, 2017 Music Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Mauro Remiddi releases his gorgeous indie dream pop under the moniker Porcelain Raft, and once you hear his glasslike voice move its way through the foggy surface of his music the name sounds perfectly inspired.

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Feb 01, 2017 Music Sampha

British singer Sampha Sisay (or just Sampha) is best known for his spellbinding vocal and production contributions to some of modern pop’s upper echelons-from Kanye West to Drake, SBTRKT, and some stunning recent additions to Solange’s most recent album.

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Jan 30, 2017 Music Elbow

Guy Garvey and his bandmates in Elbow are, at this point, the U.K.‘s most consistent elder statesmen of “old-school” alt-rock. Their seventh studio full-length album, Little Fictions, somehow manages to imbue the elegant, refined beauty of their oeuvre with new flavor and creativity even while giving fans exactly what they have come to expect from Elbow over the years.

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Toni Erdmann

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Maren Ade

Jan 30, 2017 Cinema Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Finding himself with some time on his hands after his dog dies and his sole piano student quits, aging goofball Winfried decides to reconnect with his workaholic daughter, Ines, and makes an unannounced and not entirely welcome visit to her office in Bucharest.

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Jan 27, 2017 Music Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Crunchy and resolute, Ty Segall‘s newest self-titled toaster turns up some unearthed crust and butter that is both satiating and balanced. The 29-year-old’s ninth studio offering is his second self-titled, but one shouldn’t view that as an invitation to call it a reinvention.

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