Oct 30, 2015
TV
Bruce Campbell
Only after zombies became bankable TV regulars could anyone have imagined the self-described “Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror” becoming a TV series. And as the character Ash lived on after surviving 1981’s The Evil Dead to flourish in its two sequels, the chainsaw-armed ass-kicker of the dead was too much fun not to make a comeback.
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Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Directed by Shawn and Michael Rasmussen
Oct 30, 2015
Cinema
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The Inhabitants’ greatest and most wholly unique attribute is its ambiguity.
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Oct 30, 2015
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Evil Dead fans should feel comfortable unloading and old copies of this movie and downsizing to this conclusive version of Army of Darkness.
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Oct 30, 2015
Music
Younghusband
Two years after the release of their debut album, Dromes, the British quartet Younghusband returns with a new collection produced by Loop’s Robert Hampson. As with Dromes, there seems to be no pressure toward a strictly defined sound, with any caprice potentially unveiling their next direction.
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Studio: Music Box Films
Directed by Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño
Oct 29, 2015
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Flowers are at the center of everything in Spain’s submission for the 2016 Academy Awards.
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Oct 29, 2015
Music
Gwenno
This ain’t your Granddaddy’s dystopia. The overt dread and gloominess of the apocalypse have become all too frequent, but the hallmarks of the popular sci-fi genre are all but absent on Welsh songstress Gwenno‘s debut LP Y Dydd Olaf.
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Studio: Fork Films
Directed by Abigail Disney
Oct 28, 2015
Cinema
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The Armor of Light has enough nuances to warrant a full fledged mini-series, let alone a documentary.
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Oct 28, 2015
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An early entry in the horror canon of cinema, Phantom is probably best remembered for Lon Chaney’s chilling, self-applied makeup, which holds up well even 90 years later.
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Oct 28, 2015
Music
The Chills
As the sole constant member of The Chills, Martin Phillipps spent the 1980s dreaming up some of indie pop’s earliest (and greatest) songs. Irrepressible single “Heavenly Pop Hit” spurred a brief commercial peak in the early ‘90s, which was followed by a couple decades’ worth of all too real travails (addiction, illness, endless lineup changes) that contrasted sharply with the whimsical fantasies The Chills created on record.
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Oct 27, 2015
Books
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Lauren Groff’s third novel, Fates and Furies, examines marriage and companionship through two lenses, juxtaposed in two separate sections of her book.
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