Oct 21, 2016
Music
David Bowie
Parlophone’s latest David Bowie reissue box set has already grabbed some attention for including The Gouster, a rare 1974 album that Bowie later scrapped and remixed as Young Americans. But Who Can I Be Now? has much more going for it, especially for die hard Bowie fans, as a snapshot of Bowie’s brief but eclectic “plastic soul” era.
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Oct 20, 2016
TV
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Fans of Black Mirror, the cult-favorite sci-fi anthology series from the U.K.‘s Channel 4, may have been wary when Netflix acquired distribution and ordered up 12 episodes. Indeed, part of what made the series so intriguing came from the savvy release model of slim 3-episode seasons.
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Oct 20, 2016
Comic Books
DC Comics
In terms of popularity, Superman is a paradox among superheroes. He is the heroic archetype, iconic and eternal. But when it comes to actual stories, nothing outside of his origins really come to mind, and most fans would even admit that the overpowered nature of Superman’s abilities just makes him boring.
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Oct 20, 2016
Music
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British-born, Nashville-based soul singer Jamie Lidell has never been afraid of experimenting with a multitude of instruments or genres; throughout his career he’s leapt deftly from R&B to funk to electronica, confidently finding his footing after every stylistic departure.
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Studio: Focus World
Directed by Ti West
Oct 20, 2016
Cinema
James Ransone
At first glance, In a Valley of Violence seems like a major departure for writer/director Ti West.
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Studio: A24
Directed by Barry Jenkins
Oct 19, 2016
Cinema
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Chiron is a little boy growing up in Miami with a drug addict for a mother, a drug dealer for a role model and bullies for classmates. Over the next twenty years, he will struggle to find his identity and companionship in a world that has no interest in providing him with either.
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Oct 19, 2016
Music
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Before Katie Crutchfield (vocals/guitar) started her solo project Waxahatchee in 2011 and her twin sister Allison Crutchfield (drums) joined the now also defunct and much-missed Swearin’ around the same time, they were both in P.S. Eliot, a band formed in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
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Oct 18, 2016
Music
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There has perhaps never been a starker illustration of the dichotomy between an interesting record and a good one than this. Regardless of whether you think Oasis’ first two albums were any good or not, there is no denying they were huge; they captured the mood of a Euro ‘96 football-obsessed England, dissatisfied with the dying embers of Tory rule.
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Studio: The Orchard
Directed by Alexandre Lehmann
Oct 18, 2016
Cinema
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Jim and Amanda were more than lovers in high school – they were one another’s future.
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Oct 17, 2016
Music
Faith No More
Reissued here as a double CD set, King for a Day…Fool for a Lifetime proves itself as perhaps Faith No More’s defining release.
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