Mar 04, 2015
Music
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If 2009’s Elvis Perkins in Dearland was the sound of a folk artist striving for a bigger stage, I Aubade is his subsequent retreat. Back to the comfort of brittle acoustic canticles, Elvis Perkins has stripped down to the bare bones for album number three.
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Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Robert Kenner
Mar 03, 2015
Cinema
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Based on the book of the same title, Robert Kenner’s documentary turns its lens on the scientists used by major corporations to lobby against health and environmental reform.
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Mar 03, 2015
Music
The Amazing
The Amazing‘s last album was entitled Gentle Stream, and that title evokes the Swedish group’s aural aesthetic reasonably well. Their sound is unhurried, detailed, and most of all, incredibly beautiful.
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Studio: Alchemy
Directed by Daniel Alfredson
Mar 02, 2015
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Daniel Alfredson’s Kidnapping Mr. Heineken chronicles the famous abduction from the criminals’ point of view.
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Mar 02, 2015
Music
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I Wasn’t Born to Lose You is the Oxford, England rock unit’s first full-length in 17 years, and while Swervedriver’s return hasn’t gotten the same level of ballyhoo as contemporaries such as Slowdive or Ride, it should.
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Feb 28, 2015
TV
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Will Forte is living out a loner fantasy on FOX’s brilliant new sitcom, The Last Man on Earth. Forte is one of the most uniquely gifted comic actors to come out of Saturday Night Live in the last decade, so it is no surprise that his first lead role in a sitcom is also a wonderfully executed and original idea.
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Studio: Radius-TWC
Directed by Liv Corfixen
Feb 27, 2015
Cinema
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There’s something very plainly interesting about watching how Refn deals with various issues, from the pressures of following up Drive to the realization that Only God Forgives isn’t what he had hoped.
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Feb 27, 2015
Music
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Of Montreal doesn’t give a shit about first impressions. Each album (out of a pretty dense discography, no less) is not only impossible to nail down and succinctly summarize, but also completely different in focus and sound than its predecessor.
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Studio: Radius-TWC
Directed by Joe Lynch
Feb 26, 2015
Cinema
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As Everly, Salma Hayek gracefully pivots from desperate, trapped mouse to machine-gun-wielding angel of death, often in the same scene.
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Feb 26, 2015
Music
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“Uptown Funk,” the first single off of Mark Ronson‘s new album Uptown Special, is a funk and Motown track, slickly bedazzled with the coolness of Bruno Mars’s attitude and style, and though the album as a whole doesn’t totally resemble that track inasmuch as a surface approach, it does seem to be indicative of this sonic painting of a particular time and landscape.
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