12+ hour, 48+ min ago   (190+ words) The album trades pop spectacle for a surprisingly complicated portrait of queer devotion. Across 12 tracks, Smith explores baroque pop, British folk, gospel, outlaw country, doo-wop, and blues without turning the album into a genre sampler. The connective tissue is acoustic…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (166+ words) The musician offered practical advice and hard-earned wisdom throughout her 95-minute set. “If you’re not getting happier as you get older, then you’re fucking up,” Ani DiFranco sings on “If Yr Not,” a track from her 2012 album Which Side Are…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (728+ words) ‘The Wrong Girls’ Review: Dylan Meyer’s Fun, If Half-Baked, Ode to the Stoner Comedy Slant Magazine It’s no secret that the mid-budget studio comedy is in an existential pickle. For reasons ranging from shifting cultural tastes to the rapid ascension…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (748+ words) ‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: A Honey-Sweetened Southern Fable About Community slantmagazine.com Amziah King (Matthew McConaughey) is a relentlessly optimistic beekeeper and folk musician, a renaissance man of the Oklahoma variety. The music that we see him play…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (339+ words) Kurosawa discusses making his first jidaigeki and its mixture of myth and historical reality. I spoke with Kurosawa shortly after The Samurai and the Prisoner’s release. Our conversation covered his approach to adapting Yonezawa Honobu’s 2021 novel, the film’s mixture of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (150+ words) Bold production can’t disguise an album too hesitant to commit. Ironically, Blue Island comes alive when Lenae makes a choice. On the unapologetic “Sew Me Back Together,” she stops weighing emotions and just commits: “I’ll be yours forever,” she sings....

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (160+ words) A timid man is swept off his feet when a biker takes him on as his submissive. In Harry Lighton’s Pillion, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’s novel Box Hill: A Story of Low Self Esteem, a timid man, Colin (Harry Melling),…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (807+ words) ‘White Nights’ Review: Luchino Visconti’s Operatic Fyodor Dostoevsky Adaptation Slant Magazine That Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights” shifts the setting from mid-19th-century Russia to mid-20th-century Italy needn’t change anything essential to the text. Dostoevsky’s short…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (658+ words) ‘Colony’ Review: Yeon Sang-ho’s Grisly Zombie Flick Chases the High of ‘Train to Busan’ Slant Magazine Some filmmakers thrive on repetition. Paul Schrader, for one, keeps finding new depths of despair while probing the psyches of lonely men. By contrast,…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago   (135+ words) Occasionally, the film reminds you that the man who made Mean Streets is behind the camera. A 20-minute making-of documentary from 2003, titled “Second Chances,” sees Burstyn and Kristofferson reminiscing about the making of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Finally, a…...