Art & Design
NoMeansNo, 1989, ★★★★★ Look, I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, but a carefully coordinated effort by the international punk intelligentsia to keep me in the dark is the only explanation I see for why it took 37 years for this incredible album to find its way to me. NoMeansNo has been on my radar since the early ’90s, when they appeared on Alternative Tentacles’ Virus 100 compilation, and their…
Vik Rubenfeld, 1989, ★★★ This thing is so overloaded with ridiculous ’80s signifiers, and its picture is so pristine, I initially thought it was a nostalgic throwback made sometime in the last 10 years (à la the dreadful Kung Fury ). But the hair, the clothes, the cars, and the music are simply too perfect, and that pristine picture comes courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome, patron saints of pulling out…
Christopher Nolan, 2026, ★★★½ I’m not really into Christopher Nolan or epic movies, but my knowledge of Greek mythology is shamefully cursory, so I hoped seeing Nolan’s Odyssey would give me the nudge I needed to finally do some proper reading. I enjoyed the film more than I expected to; it’s very effective in many ways (Polyphemus! Circe!) and clunky in others (loud plot forecasting and a clumsy…
Added to the film diary : Dutchman Anthony Harvey , 1966, ★★★½ Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Matt Johnson , 2025, ★★★½ Tagged: August 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers! I make art and zines and art zines. Use the discount code RSS for 20% off your first order at my online shop or come say hi at an event and get the discount in person. (Next up: 2026 Bucks County Zine…
My most-played music for the month Top artists Artist Plays The Cars 70 Bedhead 31 Motörhead 26 Carla dal Forno 24 Converge 20 Crown Flash 20 Devon Rexi and John T. Gast 20 Trio Mandili 20 Fake Dust 19 Gentilesky 18 Top albums Album Plays Confession Carla dal Forno 24 Self-Titled Crown Flash 20 Breathstep Devon Rexi and John T. Gast 20 With Love Trio Mandili 20 Decrepitizing Din of the Cerebral…
Added to the film diary : Air Force One Wolfgang Petersen , 1997, ★★★ Tagged: July 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers! I make art and zines and art zines. Use the discount code RSS for 20% off your first order at my online shop or come say hi at an event and get the discount in person. (Next up: 2026 Bucks County Zine Fest in Morrisville, PA, on August 22, 2026)
Added to the film diary : Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos , 2025, ★★★★ Anora Sean Baker , 2024, ★★★★ Tagged: July 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers! I make art and zines and art zines. Use the discount code RSS for 20% off your first order at my online shop or come say hi at an event and get the discount in person. (Next up: 2026 Bucks County Zine Fest in Morrisville, PA, on August…
Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025, ★★★ Filho is really good at setting a scene and immersing you in a time and place, and just as I was with the titular town in Bacurau , I was fascinated by The Secret Agent ’s recreation of Recife during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the late 1970s. There are so many details and characters, and I didn’t mind that many of them are superfluous to the plot. I also…
Oliver Laxe, 2025, ★★★★½ what emotional malfunction makes me so relish being brutalized in this way Tagged: July 2026 , film diary , film and television , review , Oliver Laxe Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers! I make art and zines and art zines. Use the discount code RSS for 20% off your first order at my online shop or come say hi at an event and get the discount in person. (Next…
“Foreigner! Foreigner! This is America! You’re not American! Get the fuck out!” I woke up on the 250th anniversary of my nation’s independence to the sound of some poor soul on the street having a manic episode, and its substance, such as it was, was thematically indistinguishable from that of any stump speech given by our current, duly-elected president. Tagged: July 2026 , politics Reply via…