There’s undeniable verisimilitude here: part of what has people excited, I think, is that non-oddball teen boys have finally gotten their day on-screen.
We delve into old-school versus modern films, notably Jinsei Gekojo (A Tale of Two Yakuza) against Battles Without Honor and Humanity.
All Is Forgiven’s style may be hermetic, but all the better to keep the plot away from the melodrama it would’ve turned into in lesser hands.
We begin the podcast by praising the late, great Roy Scheider.
Baltimore-based Beach House is a band with a problem.
The original title for this episode was “My Black Eye,” due to the massive shiner I gave myself after faceplanting onto my bookshelf.
Vampire Weekend has Death Cab for Cutie’s cross-over potential while actually deserving it.
The idea for this podcast was hatched after Vadim, John, and Keith Uhlich met at a screening of There Will Be Blood.
Like tectonic plates, Radar Bros. move exceedingly slow but eventually build up something momentous.
Top 10 lists are an exercise in futility, scenester-ism and dick-measuring.
For a certain kind of music nerd, the idea of the humorous rock song will always be blasphemy.
The essence of stoner comedy is the unlikely triumph of the seemingly maladjusted stoner over normalized, disapproving society.
Revolutions fade into the history books, but teen angst never dies.
It sure looks like an awesome party I would’ve loved to been able to afford.
The Clientele are really pushing it.
Like clove cigarettes and emo hoodies, some things just go better with teen angst.
Graduation is Kanye’s third and most underwhelming album for reasons that would generally be considered virtues.
Perhaps solo Pollock can gain the fame that the Delgados never got. She deserves it.