Sigur Rós takes on a more aggressive—or to quote our own Kevin Liedel in his review of the album, "more acute"—posture on their seventh effort, Kveikur, their first since becoming a threesome following the departure of Kjartan Sveinsson last year....
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A college-centric prequel to Monsters Inc., Monsters University is unfortunate proof that the animation studio previously known for its brains is now resting a little too heavily on its nominal brawn. Monsters Inc.'s success came from the imaginative...
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From first to last, Things to Come was intended to bear the unmistakable stamp of H. G. Wells's personal vision. Adapted by the legendary science-fiction novelist from his nonfiction book of "future history" entitled The Shape of Things to Come, both...
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Part end-of-life romance, part grossly manipulative mush, Unfinished Song tries to stare grief and mortality in the face while practically shitting rainbows. From Hallmark adages and a cherubic granddaughter to cancer death and senior-citizen exploitation,...
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Credit widespread jealousy of Taylor Lautner's washboard abs for staving off a full-fledged werewolf revival, as body hair has never been as conspicuously in vogue as it is right now since the aftermath of the 1970s—not coincidentally the last time...
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There isn't much that represents the metaphysical heart and soul of Futurama better the Planet Express crew's faithful freighting ship. The ever-dependable vessel has been to hell and back, damaged and reformatted in a wealth of ways both comical and...
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Late in Kuichisan, the nameless almost-baldheaded boy (Raizo Ishihara) who's the closest the film comes to a central character spouts a bunch of gibberish to a gang of young kids, to which they respond with hostile cries of "You don't make sense!" and...
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Hannibal is set in the kind of horror realm we might imagine when we indulge our worst fears of the hideous forms the civilized world could be capable of assuming. The cityscapes are richly foreboding shades of night blue and blood red, and the clouds...
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Another white, insular teen is having yet another initially shitty summer at the beginning of The Way, Way Back, the disappointing directorial debut of Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne's Oscar-winning writing partners on The Descendants. This...
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Making love in the movies. Taliban signal readiness to begin peace negotiations. For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rebecca Morgan Frank on poets speaking with movies. Richard Brody chimes in on vulgar auteurism. Mike D'Angelo's latest scenic route...
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Though writer-director Sebastiàn Silva's Crystal Fairy chronicles a Chilean desert road trip punctuated by psychoactive drug use and discursive digression, the film is not Fear and Loathing in the Atacama. Instead, it's a clear-eyed look at the fragility...
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In The X-Files episode "Hollywood A.D.," Mulder observes that Ed Wood's infamous B-movie howler Plan 9 from Outer Space is so poorly written and executed that watching it actually prevents him from thinking critically, the inadvertent effect of which...
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Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam has been lying relatively low since she flipped the bird at 114 million people during the Super Bowl halftime show last year. Matangi, her first album since signing with Jay-Z's Roc Nation management, has been delayed several...
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With Yeezus, Kanye West has once again created something singular in the world of platinum-class hip-hop: an album built on alien, angular beats, slowly morphing drones and sirens, abrupt periods of silence, and a pulse-quickening style of delivery from...
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After a slight detour into Eurotrash for 2011's Femme Fatale and faux-English accents on will.i.am's "Scream & Shout," Britney Spears returns to her roots on the Dr. Luke-produced "Ooh La La," from one of the most hotly anticipated sequels of the...
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Click here for a complete list of yesterday's Daytime Emmy Awards winners. Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani pledges path of moderation. Vadim Rizov interviews Tobias Lindholm on A Hijacking. Björk dazzles with rare U.S. performance and very unusual...
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Extracted and somewhat bowdlerized from Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel, Of Human Bondage has waned in the manner of other condensed-classics adaptations made with the stilted "prestige" accompanying a European story shot on a 1934 Hollywood lot. Leslie...
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Continuing to show a late-career hunger for genre experimentation, Martin Scorsese follows his highly-decorated 3D fantasy Hugo with The Wolf of Wall Street, a brash, rise-and-fall stock-market satire that seems to boast more comedy than the filmmaker's...
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Photographer Chris Jorgensen has set up shot at Bonnaroo, a four-day, multi-stage music and arts festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Each day we'll be posting some of his up-close-and-personal shots of the bands, the fans, and...
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Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! is inseparable from its signature image—that of Lloyd himself, bespectacled and well-tailored, hanging precariously from an oversized clock fixed to the side of a 12-story building in downtown Los Angeles, his hands clasped...
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Fossils finds singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan stepping away from the progressive bluegrass sensibility of her band Crooked Still. Despite the nod to the past in the album's title, O'Donovan eschews the presumed authenticity of folk and Americana music....
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Underneath its sci-fi horror trappings, Lifeforce is a romantic comedy with a splash of gothic longing for flavor. She's Space Girl (Mathilda May), a monster from outer space who aims to harvest humankind's souls in order to feed her interstellar vampire...
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Photographer Chris Jorgensen has set up shot at Bonnaroo, a four-day, multi-stage music and arts festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Each day we'll be posting some of his up-close-and-personal shots of the bands, the fans, and...
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Photographer Chris Jorgensen has set up shot at Bonnaroo, a four-day, multi-stage music and arts festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Each day we'll be posting some of his up-close-and-personal shots of the bands, the fans, and...
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Photographer Chris Jorgensen has set up shot at Bonnaroo, a four-day, multi-stage music and arts festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Each day we'll be posting some of his up-close-and-personal shots of the bands, the fans, and...
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In the years since the members of Destiny's Child went their separate ways, Kelly Rowland has struggled to construct a musical style and persona that would do her considerable vocal talent justice. The first two tracks on her fourth album, Talk a Good...
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