Heretic is a horror movie for this political moment, say its directors

Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant, wearing a broad smile and a busy, patterned sweater-vest) greets a pair of Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) at the door of his house in Heretic

Most of the pre-release attention for Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ A24 horror movie Heretic has focused on its perfect use of Hugh Grant as a polite predator. As seen in the film’s trailer, Grant […]

Matt Walsh’s Political Doc Is The #7 Top Grossing Film In Its Second Weekend

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Am I Racist Box Office (North America) ( Photo Credit – YouTube ) Borrowing a page from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, Matt Walsh’s Political mockumentary deriding the DEI initiative continued to perform well at the […]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Trailer Introduces Red Hulk, Sets Political Thriller Tone

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Captain America is back in a brand new MCU movie, and this time, it’s Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, holding the shield. The first trailer for Captain America: Brave New World sets a stark […]

Writer Simon Wu on Political Art, Rave Culture, and “Asian American-Core”

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Simon Wu, photographed by Jarod Lew. Aye and Simon, 2024. “I wondered if peeing in this man’s mouth would count as a practice of the theory of queer ecology,” writes Simon Wu in his new essay […]

The Jacqui Lambie Network is the latest victim of ‘cybersquatting’. It’s the tip of the iceberg of negative political ads online

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Firebrand senator Jacqui Lambie is furious. Amid the Tasmanian election campaign (in which she’s running candidates), her party, the Jacqui Lambie Network, has fallen victim to one of the many pitfalls in the world of […]

‘Regime’ review: Flirts with satire but lacks political bite

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“Regime,” premiering Sunday on HBO, is a well-made, beautifully designed, marvelously acted mess of a series. Created by Will Tracy, a writer for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and directed by Stephen Frears, it […]

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

Neck Deep on Pure Pop Punk and Political Songs: Podcast

[redcricle url=”https://api.podcache.net/embedded-player/sh/3bdcc124-2757-4d54-911f-b1b3a5666758/ep/104cb709-9914-4351-ae02-95581186fba1″%5D Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS  Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow joins Kyle Meredith to speak about the band’s new self-titled album. The frontman discusses taking their sound “back to their roots” […]

Mark Russell, piano-playing political satirist, dead at 90

Mark Russell, piano-playing political satirist, dead at 90

Longtime political humorist Mark Russell, the wise-cracking piano player who skewered Washington’s elite with pithy one-liners and upbeat tunes, has died. He was 90. The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of […]

Phoenix: ‘Every political cycle France has an existential crisis’ | Phoenix

Phoenix (clockwise from top left) Christian Mazzalai, Thomas Mars, Deck D'arcy, Laurent Brancowitz

Deck D’Arcy has a theory. The Phoenix bassist thinks that, on the band’s fifth album, 2013’s Bankrupt!, they “lost the groove”. The French four-piece were at the height of their fame: 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix […]

‘Hip-hop honeys’ and sitting as a political act: why Tschabalala Self is one of America’s hottest artists | Art

‘I want to make people feel like they have more perspective’ … overseeing production of Seated.

‘Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it. How clearly […]