The-Dream is pleasingly attuned to the needs of women, and Love King is the nutgraph of his mission(ary) statement.
They’re driven, even though their latest venture is stylistically the most inert, contemplative, offputtingly soft music they’ve possibly ever released.
Exquisitely rendered ennui. Criterion’s Blu-ray edition of Red Desert will take you there.
Further is by definition not the most embarrassing music of their career—merely the most boring.
The surgically enhanced Blu-ray edition of Showgirls is so good I can hardly thread a needle.
It’s a predictable condition, in this day and age, to see Urkel look-alikes on the LATFH.com page.
Stonewall Uprising sets its scene in the most repressive of repressive environments.
Oscilloscope Laboratories and Milliarium Zero give us a well-deserved and fetching-looking DVD of the Mariposa Film Group’s seminal gay doc.
Thanks to a sumptuous new high-definition transfer from Kino, Happy Together is still bittersweet, but with a little more emphasis on the sweet.
On the surface, Bionic is as efficient a pop entertainment as was Circus.
Fulci’s zombies have a nasty habit of disappearing right when you sort of wish they’d stay a while.
The differences in Crystal Castles II are subtle, but the key advance made is one of generosity.
Tracey Thorn could re-record Earth, Wind & Fire’s disco apex I Am and still make it sound cripplingly sad.
Spielberg’s virtuosity is every bit as luridly kinetic as it was in the best sequences from The Lost World a year before.
The film is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in a way that’s rare and essential. A sparkling Blu-ray transfer makes it a must-see.
Romain Gavras’s apocalyptically brutal music video for M.I.A.’s “Born Free” has disturbed a lot of people.
I could watch Anna Karina compose a letter for hours.
Erykah Badu’s psychological rebound so far outpaces the litany of social ills she explored last time around that it’s frankly off-putting.
The mirrors are watching you in Bigger Than Life, one of the most effective horror movies of the ’50s.
Time will tell if this is a one-off for the Bird and the Bees.