Review: '70s-style exploitation flick 'Sisu' won't seize you
Nazis carrying female captives through Finland. A gold prospector who happens to be a super-killer. “Sisu” could have been so much more fun. Share This Article
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Chet Baker: Blue Room review – gorgeous unreleased sessions by maestro of drowsy jazz | Music
In 1988, the Vogue photographer and occasional film-maker Bruce Weber made Let’s Get Lost, a lingeringly homoerotic but revealing documentary homage to “the white Miles”, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Like Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic […]
‘Little Richard’ review: A doc that knows how to rock
There’s a first for everything, and when it comes to rock ’n’ roll, Little Richard was first and everything: the decades since, full of pop music ecstasies and controversies, can nearly all be traced back […]
Blackpink at Coachella review – high-octane stream of pop bangers | Coachella
Blackpink, the K-pop superstars who became the first Asian and all-female band to headline Coachella on Saturday night, are a testament to the increasingly porous language and cultural barriers in pop music. The group’s members […]
Mandalorian season 3 finale review: buckling under the weight of Star Wars
In the business world, there’s a concept called scope creep. Unlike a lot of corporate jargon, scope creep means more or less what it says: It’s what happens when the scope of a given project […]
Pope’s Exorcist review: Russell Crowe horror movie rules, bring on sequels
There are few things better than a well-made horror movie that knows exactly how silly it should be, which is why The Pope’s Exorcist absolutely rules. Yes, the movie where Russell Crowe plays an Italian […]
Review: Frank Ocean remains willfully elusive at Coachella
Frank Ocean stood on the main stage at Coachella on Sunday night wearing an ice-blue parka, his hair under a black durag and fuzzy slides on his feet, and told the crowd of tens of […]
Frank Ocean Coachella Performance Review: What It Was Really Like In-Person
Frank Ocean’s long-awaited headlining Coachella set went down last night, and everyone has an opinion about it. All over Twitter, people are theorizing about what happened before, during, and after the controversial set. Why was […]
Aldous Harding review – performative strangeness can’t hide great melodies | Aldous Harding
Twenty minutes into Aldous Harding’s set, after a spellbinding version of Treasure, from her 2019 breakthrough album Designer, has provoked a particularly vociferous response from the crowd, she speaks her first words to the audience. […]
Coachella 2023 Sunday Review: Frank Ocean
“It’s been so long,” Frank Ocean addressed the Coachella 2023 crowd, “and I have missed you.” Frank’s fans have missed him as well. The last time put on a live set was in 2019, but […]
Coachella 2023 Saturday Review: Blackpink, Jai Paul, Rosalía
“Did you notice the wind stop?” Blackpink’s Rosé asked a crowd of thousands of screaming fans during their main stage headlining set. “I think it was all the Blinks,” she said. It was an example […]
‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ review: Drawn to Murakami
Days after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northern Japan, an anthropomorphic, human-size, chatty frog sits at the kitchen table of Mr. Katagiri (voiced by Marcelo Arroyo), a despondent employee at a lending […]
Metallica: 72 Seasons review – a poignant if protracted nostalgia kick | Metallica
Metallica frontman James Hetfield has said their 11th studio album is rooted in the past, its title a reference to “the first 18 years of our lives, that form our true or false selves … […]
Review: Fall of the mighty, The Lehman Trilogy is a dramatic tour de force
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London, hosting Sam Mendes’ The Lehman Trilogy. Image (C)Tim Sandle. The Lehman Trilogy is a thrilling historical drama playing out to packed audiences in London. The play three generations of the Lehman […]
This Is Metallica At Their Best — A Review of ’72 Seasons’
72 Seasons is a masterpiece. This is not meant to sound like hyperbole; Metallica’s new album is the strongest, most powerful statement they’ve made as a band since …And Justice For All. There is no question […]
Metallica’s 72 Seasons Is a Monument to an Illustrious Career: Review
Few bands face higher expectations from their own fanbase than Metallica. One could argue it comes with the territory of being one of the most popular long-running musical acts in the world. Perhaps consumer entitlement […]
De La Soul review – bittersweet triumph honours lost bandmate Trugoy’s legacy | Music
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. De La Soul’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall show was conceived to celebrate their beloved albums finally reaching streaming services after years in limbo. But in February, weeks before […]
Review: ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ is a bold and inspirational film on faith
Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham. Photo Courtesy of Boris Martin, Prime Video “On a Wing and a Prayer,’ starring Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, and Jesse Metcalfe, is a bold and intense film that was released […]
Tim Hecker: No Highs review – ambient music that reflects our polluted world | Experimental music
The rise of always-on streaming threatens to reduce ambient to a genre of convenience: palliative soundscapes to study and relax to. Tim Hecker has other ideas. Rather than distract or soothe, the veteran laptop composer’s […]
MultiTraction Orchestra: Reactor One review – spectral, alien improv | Experimental music
Arve Henriksen has made his name by being a trumpeter who doesn’t really sound like a trumpeter. On his albums for ECM and Rune Grammofon, on collaborations with the likes of David Sylvian and Iain […]