Feb 5, 2002 Movies A Better Tomorrow by John Woo (Review) If you want to see how Woo’s incredible style began and how much it has since matured, watch A Better Tomorrow.
Feb 5, 2002 Movies A Boy and His Dog by L.q. Jones (Review) It’s easy to see why this is such a cult film, but it actually has merit and wit, as opposed to sinking to sub-Corman levels.
Feb 2, 2002 Music Parlor by Patrick Phelan (Review) A palpable sense of longing permeates the cryptic lyrics.
Feb 2, 2002 Music Movement by The Elevator Division (Review) Despite much of the album’s rather gloomy sound, there’s nothing overwrought or melodramatic about it
Feb 2, 2002 Music The Order of Things by Tarentel (Review) The first half of The Order of Things is simply excellent, and amazingly modest in approach.
Feb 2, 2002 Movies May Day Mayhem! by Róbert Koltai (Review) Playing at your local art-house, May Day Mayhem! is a strong recommendation.
Jan 29, 2002 Music Beside This Brief Hexagonal by Roadside Monument (Review) Roadside Monument’s music is instantly accessible, but has enough depth, intensity, and emotion to keep me coming back.
Jan 29, 2002 Music Eight Hours Away from Being a Man by Roadside Monument (Review) Probably one of most challenging things that Tooth and Nail Records has ever released.
Jan 29, 2002 Music I Am the Day of Current Taste by Roadside Monument (Review) Listening to Roadside Monument becomes educational and challenging, while remaining emotional.
Jan 17, 2002 Movies Invincible Pole Fighter by Lau Kar-Leung (Review) There’s something tragic and disturbingly violent that keeps this from being just another chopsocky flick.
Jan 17, 2002 Music Where’d You Learn to Kiss That Way? by The Field Mice (Review) There’s definitely something winsome about Where’d You Learn to Kiss That Way?. But two discs of the stuff tends to get a little much.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) by Dead Can Dance (Review) 4 discs might seem like a little much for any band, but given Dead Can Dance’s diverse, extensive catalog, it feels just about right.
Jan 12, 2002 Music A School of Secret Dangers by Amy Annelle (Review) An understated little gem that deserves far more notice than it’s ever likely to receive.
Jan 12, 2002 Music I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings by Radiohead (Review) Hearing familiar songs get twisted into sometimes wonderful new shapes makes “I Might Be Wrong” worthwhile.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Son De Mar by Piano Magic (Review) Haunting soundscapes that conjure up misty beaches, abandoned lighthouses, and hulking shipwrecks.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Aida (Bliss Out, Volume 17) by Mus (Review) Aida will gently settle around you like nice, thick blanket, coaxing you to bed but never boring you to sleep.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Cigarettes and Servant EP by Turnerjoy (Review) I am interested to hear where they take this polished brand of sound on the full-length.
Jan 11, 2002 Anime Blood: The Last Vampire by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Review) Blood: The Last Vampire is a visually stunning, haunting animation whose only real weakness is that, well, it doesn’t really have much of plot.
Jan 11, 2002 Movies Anna Magdalena by Chung Man Yee (Review) Anna Magdalena is about unrequited love, but I don’t need song and dance numbers and a subpar adventure story to reinforce that.