Mar 31, 2019 TV Video Games Hyper Light Drifter, The TV Series I’m cautiously/hopefully excited about this. But how well will the game’s elegiac tone translate to TV?
Mar 29, 2019 Movies Animating the Spider-Verse This video is a great example of just how powerful, evocative, and imaginative animation can be as a medium.
Mar 29, 2019 TV April 2019’s Best Streaming Titles: Ultraman, The Fifth Element, Dragonslayer, The Jerk, The Shawshank Redemption Coming soon: 3DCG anime, Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic, dragons, Steve Martin, Stephen King, and more.
Mar 26, 2019 Music Scott Walker, 1943-2019 Scott Walker was willing to throw away the easy life of pop stardom in order to follow his own strange muse.
Mar 26, 2019 Nerdery My Son’s Foreign Languages I’ll have to see if his school will give him foreign language credit for this.
Mar 24, 2019 Movies Review Round-Up: David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! The latest DC films continues to lighten the mood, blending goofy fun with the usual superheroics.
Mar 24, 2019 Concerts Watch The Prayer Chain’s Shawl 25th Anniversary Concert I never got to see The Prayer Chain live back in the day, but they’re in fine form here.
Mar 22, 2019 Music Before We Rise by Bückle/Vogt (Review) The duo’s debut EP recalls late-’90s and early-’00s indietronica and trip-hop.
Mar 20, 2019 TV Hawkins, Indiana Is Still a Crazy Place in the Stranger Things Season 3 Trailer Not even a shiny new mall is going to help Eleven, Mike, and the rest of the gang when the flesh monster shows up.
Mar 17, 2019 Miscellany Drone Footage of Nebraska’s 2019 Flooding It’ll take months, and even years, to recover from this devastation.
Mar 16, 2019 Movies James Gunn, Tucker Carlson, and the Value of Contrition Both men have said horrible things in the past, but only one of them has apologized.
Mar 13, 2019 Video Games Heart Machine Announces Solar Ash Kingdom The still-mysterious game is a followup to the acclaimed Hyper Light Drifter.
Mar 12, 2019 Politics Technology Elizabeth Warren vs. Big Tech: What could go wrong? Warren’s proposal to break up Amazon, Google, et al., may sound nice, but would it really fix anything?
Mar 9, 2019 Music ASC’s The Waves Invites Listeners to Lose Themselves Within Its Shadowy Depths (Review) James Clements’ latest collection of ambient techno evokes uncharted and mysterious ocean depths.
Mar 8, 2019 Pop Culture Pop Culture Is More Than Mere Entertainment Inventors, engineers, scientists, and astronauts have been inspired by Star Trek, so why not politicians?
Mar 8, 2019 Technology In Defense of Apple’s Perfectly Adequate iPhone SE Did Apple’s phone design peak when they released the iPhone SE back in 2016?
Mar 6, 2019 Movies Review Round-Up: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel So far, most critics are singing the praises of Marvel’s first female-led superhero movie.
Mar 4, 2019 Music My Favorite’s The Happiest Days of Our Lives Has Been Digitally Reissued Highly recommended for fans of shimmery, jangly ’80s pop and droll, melancholy lyrics.