Pinkshinyultrablast Releases New Music from Their Upcoming Album Both songs showcase the band’s blend of shimmery, ethereal textures and towering walls of sound. Nov 22, 2017 Music
December 2017’s Best Streaming Titles: Full Metal Jacket, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Bright, Silence, Doctor Who & more Also: A couple of Vietnam War epics, a twisty German thriller, Taratino’s revenge masterpiece, and the Muscles from Brussels. Nov 21, 2017 TV
Weekend Reads: Transformers, Embryos & Ethical Dilemmas, Worshipping Artificial Intelligence, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & more Also: Online dating, IVF’s dark side, technology and our brains, recent, Christ and Pop Culture highlights, and the modern western. Nov 18, 2017 Reading
Longing for Home by Starsabout (Review) For fans of thoughtful, atmospheric indie-rock, Starsabout’s debut full-length is the real deal. Nov 16, 2017 Music
What keeps us from falling down? Once again, the moral failure at the heart of American Christianity is exposed for all to see. Nov 13, 2017 Best of Opus Politics
Random Nerdery: Star Wars, Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!, and The Silver Chair A new Star Wars trilogy, Netflix plans a Blame! sequel, and Eleven might be going to Narnia. Nov 11, 2017 Nerdery
Haloed’s Off-World Reworks Blade Runner’s Soundtrack into a Unique Sonic World (Review) This ambient reimagining breaks down Vangelis’ original score and weaves it back together in new, intriguing ways. Nov 6, 2017 Music
Why does Stranger Things affect me so strongly? I understand why others find the series derivative, clichéd, too reliant on tropes, etc. But it doesn’t feel derivative to me at all. Nov 3, 2017 TV
Netflix Is Producing a Live-Action Version of Erased The series will premiere in Japan on December 15, with the rest of the world to follow soon after. Nov 2, 2017 TV