Aug 27, 2014
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Over the course of Under the Skin‘s 108 minute runtime, the film is alternately a Tarkovskian sci-fi meditation, a digital video art installation, and an extended candid camera punking riff.
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Aug 27, 2014
Music
Merchandise
Since their inception in 2008 we’ve watched as Tampa five-piece Merchandise have morphed from DIY hardcore punks into reverb-drenched indie merchants on their excellent 2013 mini-LP Totale Night.
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Studio: IFC Midnight
Directed by Víctor García
Aug 27, 2014
Cinema
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Each year there are a couple standouts in the horror genre, but director Víctor García’s The Damned is not one of 2014’s pleasant surprises.
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Aug 27, 2014
Music
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Ironically enough, Jack Antonoff’s side project, Bleachers, is a lot more fun than the more famous band, fun., for which he plays guitar.
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Aug 26, 2014
Comic Books
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In this latest depiction of Chris Carter’s hugely popular ‘90s television series, Mulder and Scully revisit the origins of The X-Files to compare notes to a current case. While tracking down a large cat, the duo hear about a mysterious man named “Mr. Zero,” who Mulder recognizes from the very first X-File.
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Aug 26, 2014
Music
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“You’re the same as me/You’ll never be free,” snarls Ty Segall on “The Feels,” a Sabbath-informed piece of cosmic bummer sludge-punk. Call it poetic license, because withManipulator, Segall has liberated himself from the strictures of album-length concepts.
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Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer
Aug 26, 2014
Cinema
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Errol Flynn’s final days get the biopic treatment in The Last of Robin Hood, where Kevin Kline plays the late actor with loads of slimy charm.
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Aug 26, 2014
Music
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There may come a day when we no longer need new material from The Raveonettes but that is not this day. Pe’ahi came out as a surprise release, appearing out of the blue, and what a pleasant surprise it was.
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