Van Morrison, Born to Sing: No Plan B (2012)
Van Morrison left the longest hiatus in his career to date between Keep It Simple and Born to Sing: No Plan B but he would make up for it with the most prolific decade of his [...]
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Lanthimos: Kinds of Kindness (2024)
The working title of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindnesses was And. In some ways, that was a more apposite title, since this anthology comedy is obsessed with one of the [...]
Prince, The Vault…Old Friends 4 Sale (1999)
As the title suggests, The Vault is a collection of older tracks, most of them composed between 1985 and 1986, and was recorded at the same time as 1996’s Chaos and [...]
The X-Files, Season 2, Episode 13: “Irresistible” (January 13, 1995)
Not only is “Irresistible” highly atmospheric and cinematic, it feels like an especially pivotal episode in the early trajectory of The X-Files as a whole. While the [...]
The X-Files, Season 2, Episode 12: “Aubrey” (January 6, 1995)
“Aubrey” is one of the strongest episodes of the second season and often anticipates the aesthetic of both Mindhunter and Hannibal. Interestingly, it touches on an [...]
Abbasi: The Apprentice (2024)
The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s first film in English, is a dramatisation of the formative friendship between Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, and power broker Roy [...]