by Patrick Lynott | Aug 12, 2022
Photo: Sports and Entertainment Intro – Sports and Entertainment The summer blockbuster is a Hollywood tradition: ‘Jaws,’ ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘E.T.’ It’s a movie that captures something in the zeitgeist that reveals something about our time. Original yet familiar....
by Samuel Sandor | Aug 4, 2022
Photo: Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Beyoncé’s last solo studio album, ‘Lemonade,’ released in 2016, was an enormous success, both critically and commercially. Widely considered her magnum opus, the hype and pressure surrounding ‘Renaissance,’ her seventh project, was...
by Samuel Sandor | Jul 28, 2022
Photo: ‘Wasteland’ (Trigger Warning: Brief Mention of Suicide and Abortion) Arriving in Wasteland In the recess between opulence; the penthouses and bars he spends his nights in, and absurdity; the failures and shocks associated with the pandemic and recent political...
by Samuel Sandor | Jul 28, 2022
Photo: beabadoobee What to Expect Almost immediately after Powfu’s 2019 Tik-Tok viral song Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head) catapulted beabadoobee (Bea Laus) to worldwide fame, everybody seemed to know what she was. “Bubblegum pop artist”, “TikTok musician”, “rising...
by Kevin Hauger | Jul 25, 2022
Video Verison of this Article Photo: Baz Luhrmann/Shutterstock A Flair for the Dramatic Baz Luhrmann’s films adhere more closely to the conventions of Ancient Greek or Brechtian Theatre than to modern tastes for realism. Luhrmann frames his spectacular stories in such...
by Mark Raymond | Jul 14, 2022
Photo: Taylor Hawkins/Shutterstock What to do When Tragedy Strikes This can certainly on its face appear to be a pretty controversial topic to cover in its own right. No disrespect intended to any of the bands mentioned here or the families of those covered who lost a...
