Month: March 2024

Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy‘s sophomore effort, Oddity, serves as a welcome extension of his feature debut, Caveat, in many ways. Aside from the brief return of at least one familiar face and a nightmare bunny, Oddity continues the filmmaker’s exploration of supernatural karma and retribution with offbeat characters and a unique vision for scares. Armed with a tighter narrative, a
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In high school, when I wanted to purchase a T-shirt with holes intentionally perforated throughout, my mother was appalled. I garnered the same reaction when I bought a pair of jeans pre-shredded within an inch of their life, my mother in disbelief: “Why spend money on something that’s so destroyed?” Courtesy of Miu MiuA detail
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The early days of the pandemic were like living in some unholy vortex. Stores were indefinitely shuttered. The streets were eerily abandoned. And the threat of COVID lurked around every corner. While it has been four years since those rudimentary times, and we’ve returned to some normalcy, the danger still exists in hushed whispers and
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Awards season campaigning is a notoriously competitive and fickle thing, a calculated mix of schmoozing at industry parties, charming audiences at late-night talk shows and being not too publicly thirsty to take home the gold (sorry, Bradley Cooper). And apparently one Icarian hero flew too close to the sun this year: Messi, the Border Collie
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There’s no letting up with our new books report this week and our radar is blipping out of control. Today we bring you one fascinating book after another, by some highly original authors. On the Radar begins with the latest creepy thriller from Cynthia Pelayo in which the Chicago River has plenty to hide. You
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Chances are high, if you’re here, that you’re familiar with the names Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the filmmakers behind Spring and The Endless. Prepare to add one more name to that list: Benson & Moorhead’s longtime editor Michael Felker, set to make his feature debut with upcoming sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different. Things Will Be
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News Sleater-Kinney Share New Frayed Rope Sessions EP: Listen Proceeds from the Bandcamp sales of the three-track release benefit Noise for Now By Matthew Strauss March 8, 2024 Facebook X Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, photo by Ryan Cory Facebook X Sleater-Kinney have released a new three-song EP called Frayed Rope Sessions. As the
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After your very first novel receives a Newbery Honor and you go on to win two Newbery Medals; after you become a two-time finalist for the National Book Award; after several of your books are adapted for the big screen (not to mention a stage musical and an opera); after you’re named the National Ambassador
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Singer/Songwriter Baker Grace’s January release of her single “State of Mind” is trapped in the amber of the moment between joy and it’s ok to be sad. It’s also about self-love. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness we don’t really know what
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British Virgin Islands singer and songwriter Iyaz was 21 years old when he rose to fame — and reached millions across the world — when he topped the charts with his debut album “Replay” back in 2009. The viral song has 867 million listens on Spotify and peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100. His
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EXCLUSIVE: Just in time for SXSW season, A24 has dated MaXXXine, the third movie in the Ti West horror franchise, for July 5. The first movie, X, made its world premiere in 2022 at SXSW, where the filmmaker promptly announced its sequel, Pearl, starring the franchise’s main scream queen, Mia Goth. Savor the retro teaser
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