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The Inhabitants

Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Directed by Shawn and Michael Rasmussen

Oct 30, 2015 Cinema Web Exclusive

The Inhabitants’ greatest and most wholly unique attribute is its ambiguity.

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Oct 30, 2015 DVDs Web Exclusive

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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Flowers

Studio: Music Box Films
Directed by Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño

Oct 29, 2015 Cinema Web Exclusive

Flowers are at the center of everything in Spain’s submission for the 2016 Academy Awards.

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Gwenno

Y Dydd Olaf

Heavenly

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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The Armor of Light

Studio: Fork Films
Directed by Abigail Disney

Oct 28, 2015 Cinema Web Exclusive

The Armor of Light has enough nuances to warrant a full fledged mini-series, let alone a documentary.

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The Phantom of the Opera

Studio: Kino Lorber

Oct 28, 2015 DVDs Web Exclusive

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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Lauren Groff

Fates and Furies

Published by Riverhead

Oct 27, 2015 Books Web Exclusive

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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