Dec 31, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2016 2016 sucked in many ways. But there was beautiful music to be heard in the midst of the year’s ugliness.
Dec 29, 2016 Pop Culture Religion My Favorite Christ and Pop Culture Articles of 2016 Obviously, I’m a little biased, but I was once again impressed by the site’s depth and breadth of coverage.
Dec 29, 2016 Music 25 Albums (and 1 Reissue) I’m Looking Forward to Hearing in 2017 One of my favorite albums gets reissued and several great shoegaze/noise-pop acts return with promises of new music.
Dec 27, 2016 Anime Attack on Titan’s Second Season Reveals “The New Darkest Day in Humanity’s History” The human-devouring giants are back, along with more existential dread, bloody melodrama, and high-flying action.
Dec 27, 2016 Music I’d Buy a 25th Anniversary Reissue of The Violet Burning’s Strength in a Heartbeat It’d be a shame to overlook the anniversary of one of Christian music’s true masterpieces.
Dec 27, 2016 Movies TV The Best Streaming Titles Arriving in January 2017 Coming soon: ’80s comedy and horror classics, a Parisian fairy tale, a farting corpse, giant robot lion action, and more.
Dec 25, 2016 Miscellany ‘Twas a White Christmas After All Nebraska’s unpredictable weather comes through again.
Dec 23, 2016 Movies 25 Movies I’m Looking Forward to Seeing in 2017 Plenty of sequels and superhero movies but I’m just as excited by new films from some of my favorite directors.
Dec 20, 2016 Anime Movies Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves and Princess Mononoke Are Coming to American Theatres This marks the first time that “Ocean Waves” will get a theatrical run throughout North America.
Dec 19, 2016 Movies The First Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 Is Very Promising It certainly looks like it’s in keeping with the spirit of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic.
Dec 11, 2016 Movies Netflix’s Spectral Contains the Makings of a Much More Interesting Movie (Review) It’s passable late night entertainment but with a script that made better use of its ideas, it could’ve been a lot more.
Dec 10, 2016 Music In Rotation: Emily Jane White, Yagya, Trance to the Sun, 1 Mile North (Review) Dark-tinged folk balladry, spacey techno from Iceland, goth-y psychedelia, and stripped down post-rock.
Dec 6, 2016 Nerdery Pop Culture Random Nerdery: Guardians of the Galaxy, Sword Master, Spectral & Lone Wolf and Cub Marvel’s next big hit, gorgeous-looking Chinese swordplay, more Netflix original sci-fi, and classic cult samurai action.
Dec 2, 2016 Music Get in the Holiday Spirit with Low’s New Christmas Song Mimi Parker’s lovely voice makes “Some Hearts (at Christmas Time)” another fine Christmas tune from the slowcore pioneers.