As the title announces, Three Chords & the Truth is a back-to-basics album for Van Morrison. The phrase was coined by Harlan Howard to describe country music and while [...]

Terrifier and Terrifier 2 were two of the most original horror films of the last five years, albeit for quite different reasons. On the one hand, Terrifier managed to restore [...]

Don DeLillo’s first novel was quite extraordinary. That’s partly because it reads like four or five novels in one (it runs close to five hundred pages). All of them [...]

“The Calusari” sees The X-Files return to a more conventional register after the singularity of “Humbug.” It draws equally on It and The Omen and revolves around a [...]

Van Morrison continues the jazz tendencies of Versatile on You’re Driving Me Crazy, a collaboration with the late trumpeter, organist and general virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco. [...]

“Humbug” may be the quintessential episode of The X-Files. It revolves around the murder of a carnival worker and unfolds as a series of continual revisions and [...]

Dod Kalm is one of the first episodes in The X-Files where the horror stems from the flipside of network acceleration – analog obsolescence. The setup is both historic and [...]

Sometimes The X-Files edges towards absurdity but that’s a key part of its restless quest for the arcane. “Fearful Symmetry” is one of those episodes that seems to be [...]