The Mountain Goats Go to the Movies
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle has been a cinephile all his life, but he never created an album about the movies until this year’s thrilling Bleed Out.
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Film Composer Carter Burwell Provides the Missing Link to Chris Butler’s ‘Missing Link’
Among today's most prolific film composers and a two-time Academy Award nominee, Carter Burwell ventures into animated fare with the Chris Butler's Missing Link.
Privilege vs Detriment: ‘Copyright Criminals’ Has a Good Defense
Why would the generation that covered Bob Dylan over and over get so bent out of shape of having seconds of audio copied and pasted in a new way in a rap song?
Murder Mystery ‘The Woman in the Window’ Teaches a Masterclass in the Unreliable Narrator
A.J. Finn's The Woman In the Window is clearly a love letter to the genre and an homage to the classics.
How Laurie Simmons Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Movie Camera
The look and feel of My Art is sunny and green, with warm visuals that have a clear artist's eye for photography.
Jennifer Caloyeras Gets Unruly In Her New Short Story Collection
Intimacy with animals, babysitting plastic dolls, and running into your dad at a furry cuddle party are just a few of the details in this off-the-chain collection of stories, Unruly Creatures.
True/False Film Fest: ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’
Director Morgan Neville cuts straight to the heart of matters with this moving biography of Fred Rogers.
True/False Film Fest: ‘Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami’
Director Sophie Fiennes mixes concert film with arresting cinéma vérité family portrait.
True/False Film Fest: ‘Shirkers’
Erstwhile teenage screenwriter Sandi Tan reclaims her art from male narcissism.
True/False Film Fest: ‘Our New President’
The next film from Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer director Maxim Pozdorovkin treats us to Russian propaganda about the United States.
Black Panther Brings Much Needed “Black Joy” to the World
This movie doesn't exist in a vacuum, and there's something positive for the world to be found in embracing "black joy".