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The Housemaid is fine American trash cinema, in line with It Ends With Us.
A 2023 Fame interview with architect Tom Kundig vs. a 2015 The Interval interview with playwright Lynn Nottage.
Primate is an entertaining albeit silly movie.
Eephus is a superior independent baseball movie, a rare bird in movies today.
Ex-pats will have to wait and see if their country will be safe enough to return to.
Lessons from an exploding furnace.
The country’s moved on, but for moralizers, every day is still January 6th.
Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue is a rich melodrama that’s proud to be American.
Nieuw dorp, or “new town,” settled in 1670.
2,000 Meters to Andriivka is a bracing documentary on Russia's war against Ukraine.
The attack’s broader implications are bleak.
The independent absurdist thriller Borderline is a thoughtful pastiche of 1990s cult cinema.
Nick Fuentes is gaining cultural ground because he treats young men as agents, not problems.
Battle language around illness can harm patients, families and honest end-of-life choices.
A term coined to describe the toll of racism gets flipped to express another kind of exhaustion.
Remove the smoke, the tar, the yellowed fingers, and the coughing fits, and nicotine itself looks like a surprisingly modest molecule.
The socialist in the NYC Mayor’s mansion.
Long hair. Leather jackets. Endless blog posts typed with the certainty of scripture.
You can make plans, mark your calendar, and make a list of things to do and places to go; but everyone dies eventually.
Wall Street Journal op-ed never!
A working-class voice smeared for warning about grooming gangs is finally heard.
But in a decade or two, we’re likely to end up evacuating Venezuela in humiliation.
Try naming one big-name right-wing comedian.
Trump’s invasion leaves U.S. voters in the cold.
The filmmakers behind Marty Supreme and Hamnet talk about their work in this conversation produced by Variety.
The late director talks about 1979's Family Nest in this interview produced by the Criterion Collection in 2024.
The actor talks about his young love for unfiltered Turkish Ovals, his work with Paul Thomas Anderson, and more.
The legendary producer talks to Ezra Klein about working with Bowie, Cage, Talking Heads, U2, and many more in this recent interview.
Newly discovered recording of the band performing at the Warfield Theater promoting Heaven or Las Vegas on March 13, 1991.
Bill Burr talks billionaires, immigrants, and more in this episode of Subway Takes.
The band play their classic hit on MTV's Most Wanted in this 1995 performance.
The band led by Jason Pierce play from their then new album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.
The Smashing Pumpkins songwriter talks about his musical origins and amp preferences in this 2022 interview.
The filmmaker talks to Matt Neglia about Marty Supreme and more in this new interview.
The businessman talks about acting in Marty Supreme, homelessness, and his millionaire lifestyle.