Nov 8, 2001 Movies Ghost World by Terry Zwigoff (Review) A wonderful, sensitive movie about the constraints of society on individualism and the requirements of compromise.
Oct 30, 2001 Movies Healing Hearts by Tut-Hei Tang (Review) This movie has so many ideas and doesn’t know what to do with them all.
Oct 29, 2001 Music Sings Reign Rebuilder by Set Fire To Flames (Review) Like all good collaborations, something new and interesting was forged out of that which was familiar.
Oct 28, 2001 Music Enjoy Your Rabbit by Sufjan Stevens (Review) Sufjan Stevens displays a real knack for taking his arsenal of abstract sounds and letting them go wild without damaging his music’s integrity.
Oct 28, 2001 Music Drukqs by Aphex Twin (Review) There is a great album at the heart of Drukqs. It’s just unfortunate that you have wade through two for it.
Oct 28, 2001 Music My Father My King by Mogwai (Review) My Father My King is ultimately an extremely loud footnote in Mogwai’s history.
Oct 13, 2001 Movies Hana-Bi by Takeshi Kitano (Review) At times brilliant and interesting, I often found it slow and just barely limping along.
Oct 12, 2001 Music Death of a Saint by Sam Billen (Review) Each song feels perfectly, beautifully natural, an outlet for a man trying to cope with death and loss.
Oct 12, 2001 Music Never Cry Wolf by Never Cry Wolf (Review) These guys play intricate and heartfelt rock, full of passion and honesty.
Oct 12, 2001 Music Angels of the Universe by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Sigur Rós (Review) You get the feeling that, in order to truly appreciate this music, you need to see the movie.
Oct 12, 2001 Music A Dozen Summers Against the World by Nature and Organisation (Review) It vaguely reminds me of some of the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus’ material.
Oct 10, 2001 Movies La Jétee by Chris Marker (Review) When the film reaches its conclusion, it’s both a genuine shock and fitting resolution — and all the more tragic.
Oct 6, 2001 Movies The Outlaw Josey Wales by Clint Eastwood (Review) One wonders if this is the greatest western ever made.
Oct 6, 2001 Movies The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by John Ford (Review) All in all, a so-called classic that misses out on all of the aspects that make a classic western.
Oct 5, 2001 Music Phaedra by Tangerine Dream (Review) Probably as a good a place as any to start if you want to start delving into the history of electronic music.
Oct 5, 2001 Music Tronic Treatment by Christian Smith (Review) While it has hooks aplenty, it doesn’t really have standout tracks.
Oct 5, 2001 Music Mixed Live: Buzz @ Nation, Washington D.C. by Donald Glaude (Review) Donald Glaude knows he is there to entertain the crowd and have a good time, and it really shows.
Oct 5, 2001 Music Falling Into a Dream by The Fleshpeddlers (Review) The Fleshpeddlers are not what I was expecting.
Oct 3, 2001 Anime Movies My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki (Review) I find it very easy to get caught up in Miyazaki’s films, mainly because his films often resemble how I remember seeing the world as a child.
Oct 3, 2001 Anime Movies Macross Plus: The Movie by Shōji Kawamori (Review) It successfully combines high-tech action sequences with some interesting, if not moving human interest stories.