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“Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent.” That was uttered many moons ago buy a confident ad guy in New York City, who went on to tell us that “in Greek, ‘nostalgia’ literally means ‘the pain from an old wound’. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” We think of Don Draper’s iconic words from the Season 1 finale of Mad Men every time we gaze at the social media abyss:…
The question has always been “who let the dogs out?” and never “Who let the dogs in?” — but now, Nate Jackson, with all of his Big Dog energy, is helping us get to the bottom of the latter this fall with one simple answer: Us. Returning to the city with as much anticipation as ever before, Jackson has added a second show to his Wilbur stop on October 23, as part of his Big Dog tour, which also…
Normally, we try not to cover teasers less than a minute long– even on news days so sluggish you can practically see a snail trail — because they’re usually teasers for teasers, and that practice is lame. It’s the slow-burn version of the ten-second trailer clip played at the start of a full-length trailer on YouTube, designed to keep you on the video just long enough to count as a view. But most…
“There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity.” That sentiment of the obvious stating the apparent arrives today from Fontaines D.C. voice Grian Chatten, as the celebrated Dublin band, they of 2024 Album of the Decade contender Romance, ready a swell of new sounds to flood the fleeting feeling of autumn and our downward spiral into…
If nothing else, David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street proves that Warner Brothers will — and have, now — spend at least $80 million on a movie in which feathered dinosaurs “do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Yes, Mitchell spent nearly a decade in Director Jail following the drama surrounding criminally underrated Under the Silver Lake to make a “Dark Amblin” picture in which…
I suppose Matt Johnson’s Tony is a best-case scenario for a bad-idea biopic, where, if one were to trim a bit from the runtime, you’d wind up with a regular ol’ coming-of-age story, and it’d be a pretty solid one as well. As a certified super-fan of Greg Mottola’s Adventureland and its ilk, I’m always down for an “idyll struggle,” where a meek young protagonist self-actualizes and crafts an adult…
The long road of Fortune Feimster’s current tour has brought her all over the map, but for this weekend in particular, there is a need — or rather, a knead — to be met in Provincetown. Bringing her Takin’ Care of Biscuits tour back to Massachusetts for a little summers-end shindig with two shows at Provincetown Town Hall starting tonight (August 14), Feimster is making her way back with a bulked…
In Lost Film‘s Western Massachusetts garden, overwatered plants are a lesson — and the inspiration for August’s hazy soundtrack. The Easthampton-based project of artist Jim Hewitt this week (August 11) released “Blossom Rot,” an indie rock daydream that’s ripe for stillness and contemplation during summer’s final weeks. “I find a lot of solace in the garden lately, which is where the title came…
Back sometime in the halcyon ’80, great American poet David Scott Mustaine offered up some prophetic lyrical wisdom in “If there’s a new way / I’ll be the first in line / But it better work this time.” Four decades later, that sentiment burns through our screen-bled retinas as DIIV return with not only a proper SOTY contender in “The Fountain,” but the attached promise accompanying forthcoming…
It’s been a bit since we’ve had a good “tough-guy-and-animal” picture (and no, we’re not really putting Superman in that category, as tough as the Man of Steel is), and it looks like Brad Pitt and Odin the dog are going to end the dry spell. They’re co-leads in David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller about a man, a dog, a plane crash, and a journey home. What more do you really need…
