reviews

'Strange Darling' Has One of the Year's Most Subtle, Staggering Performances

Directed by JT Mollner

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

JT Mollner's 'Strange Darling' understands and trusts lead Willa Fitzgerald to the point of sweaty, lip-licking ecstasy. The film lets her...

illuminati hotties Are All Grown Up on 'POWER'

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2024

Keeping existential dread at bay has been an underlying current for illuminati hotties since day one. When it inevitably does rear ...

Spectral Wound's 'Songs of Blood and Mire' Is More Party Than Pain

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2024

Spectral Wound want you to think they're scary. That's fine, they should — they're a black metal band. Hailing from Montreal...

Fontaines D.C. Pen an Unreliable Encyclopedia of 'Romance'

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

Love is not patient or kind. It fails and boasts. It appears contorted, grim, armed, and it poisons the angered soul with swarming radon ...

We've Seen 'Between the Temples' Before

Directed by Nathan Silver

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

What's "between the temples"? The answer is relatively simple: the brain. And yet, that conclusion leads to an organ so complex and weird...

WUT Claw Their Way to Victory on 'Mingling with the Thorns'

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2024

WUT have always been tender but tough. The Vancouver trio — guitarist Kaity McWhinney, bassist Tracey Vath and drummer Lauren Smith ...

OMBIIGIZI Refine Their Craft on "Laminate the Sky"

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PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2024

OMBIIGIZI, the super-duo of Daniel Monkman (a.k.a. Zoon) and Adam Sturgeon (a.k.a. Status/Non-Status) have announced their sophomore album...

Charly Bliss Are Complex and Colourful on 'FOREVER'

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2024

Five years is five years too long since 2019's 'Young Enough,' but at long last, Charly Bliss...