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Avatar: The Way of Water Offers a Thin Plot But a Visual Upgrade on Reality: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:00:15 +0000

The Pitch: If the phrase “we’re going back to Pandora!” is meaningless to you, or makes you think of a music streaming service, totally understandable. But y’all, we’re going back to Pandora, the Pandora in this case being the faraway planet at the center of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way…

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Avatar: The Way of Water Offers a Thin Plot But a Visual Upgrade on Reality: Review
Liz Shannon Miller

On SOS, SZA Once Again Blows Expectations Out of the Water

Cady Siregar — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:30:57 +0000

SZA is back to save us all. Her debut album, Ctrl, remains an exquisite artifact of a snapshot into the ugliness of your 20s. SZA’s personal style of lyricism has always read like an endless diary entry, and the transcendent nature of her genre-shifting abilities helped revolutionize modern R&B and…

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On SOS, SZA Once Again Blows Expectations Out of the Water
Cady Siregar

Emo’s Not Dead Cruise Proves It Wasn’t Just a Phase: Recap, Photos and Video

Cervanté Pope — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:51:54 +0000

With the onslaught of reunion tours and themed festivals that have popped up since the pandemic has simmered down (but let’s be honest, has it?), it only seemed right to throw in a scene fest amongst the jam bandy, stadium rock gatherings we’ve been seeing. There was When We Were…

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Emo’s Not Dead Cruise Proves It Wasn’t Just a Phase: Recap, Photos and Video
Cervanté Pope

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: 2022 has really seemed like The Year of Pinocchio. While the original 1883 Italian novel by Carlo Collodi has had its fair share of adaptations over the years (from classic Disney delights to, well, Pauly Shore in middle-aged twink mode), this year saw new takes on the material from…

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review
Clint Worthington

Emancipation Review: A Heavy-Handed Film With Powerful Moments Can’t Get Out of its Own Way

Marcus Shorter — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:35:49 +0000

The Pitch: “Then what?” There’s a moment in Emancipation where the film establishes a modus operandi. A white man named Fassel (Ben Foster), while sitting with his two partners, explains the actual reason behind slavery’s cruelty and white supremacy. Coldly and bluntly, he tells a childhood story about the enslaved…

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Emancipation Review: A Heavy-Handed Film With Powerful Moments Can’t Get Out of its Own Way
Marcus Shorter

Amon Amarth Crush New York City with Carcass, Obituary, and Cattle Decapitation: Recap, Photos and Video

Rodrigo Fredes and Heavy Consequence Staff — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:19:23 +0000

Swedish metal giants Amon Amarth brought their viking ship to New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday night (December 1st), leading a killer bill that also included Carcass, Obituary, and Cattle Decapitation. The New York show marked one of only three dates on Amon Amarth’s North American tour (along with…

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Amon Amarth Crush New York City with Carcass, Obituary, and Cattle Decapitation: Recap, Photos and Video
Rodrigo Fredes and Heavy Consequence Staff

Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:47 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: America is a land of mythmaking: if you’re savvy and lucky (and often, unscrupulous) enough, you can carve out a legend of your own design. That’s what happened to Richard Davis, the oddball inventor of the…

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Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review
Clint Worthington

With Indigo, RM Makes Fleeting Moments Feel Permanent

Mary Siroky — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:02:57 +0000

The album cover of RM’s Indigo includes artwork by Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun, a painter known for meditative, contemplative pieces characterized by splashes of umber and ultramarine. While the contemporary paintings are relatively minimalist, they’re technically complex, and all the more layered considering the artist was a bold, persistent figure…

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With Indigo, RM Makes Fleeting Moments Feel Permanent
Mary Siroky

Violent Night Review: Finally, a Home Alone/Die Hard/The Northman Mash-up for the Holidays

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:38:05 +0000

The Pitch: It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus (David Harbour) is having a rough time of it — while he’s got plenty of Christmas magic to power his sleigh, otherwise he’s mostly relying on booze to get him through the tedium of delivering video games to the children of the…

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Violent Night Review: Finally, a Home Alone/Die Hard/The Northman Mash-up for the Holidays
Liz Shannon Miller

Pixies Return to Japan with Marathon 41-Song Set: Recap and Photos

Matt Kaufman — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:43:18 +0000

The 1990s were a golden era for bands touring Japan. The yen was strong against the dollar, and everyone from Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins to Bikini Kill and bands on small labels like Huggy Bear played to enthusiastic crowds, but the Pixies broke up before they ever got a chance…

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Pixies Return to Japan with Marathon 41-Song Set: Recap and Photos
Matt Kaufman

Willow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:01:27 +0000

The Pitch: It’s been quite a time for super-serious sci-fi and fantasy epics, as anyone who’s attempted to keep up with House of the Dragon, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Sandman, and many, many other shows will tell you. But here comes Disney+’s Willow, with…

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Willow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time
Liz Shannon Miller

Little America’s Second Season Offers a Much-Needed Dose of Optimism: Review

Mary Siroky — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:00:03 +0000

The Pitch: It’s often very difficult to feel optimistic about the general state of things in this country. For people who have grown up and lived through crisis after crisis, the many who were thrust into unsteady job markets and a Sisyphean uphill battle of debt and financial instability, the…

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Little America’s Second Season Offers a Much-Needed Dose of Optimism: Review
Mary Siroky

Metallica Release “Lux Æterna,” First New Song in Six Years: Review and Lyrics

Jon Hadusek — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:16:16 +0000

Metallica have returned with their first new song in more than six years, “Lux Æterna” — the lead single from the band’s just announced new studio album, 72 Seasons, arriving April 14th. Considering the band’s pace of releasing new music every 6-8 years, a lead single drop is certainly a…

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Metallica Release “Lux Æterna,” First New Song in Six Years: Review and Lyrics
Jon Hadusek

Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock

Clint Worthington — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:20:58 +0000

This review was originally part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Pitched between the doomsday-prepping of Y2K and the existential horror of 9/11, 2000s New York was also home to another seismic change in American culture: the burgeoning indie-rock scene, where dingy clubs on the Lower…

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Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock
Clint Worthington

Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:10:05 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Don DeLillo’s White Noise is one of those “great American novels” long thought to be unfilmable, a scattered, acerbic takedown of late American capitalism and its incessant need to distract from the inevitability of death…

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Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review
Clint Worthington