SHIN ULTRAMAN Is a Fantastic Riff on Kaiju-Bashing (Fantasia Fest Review)

People took up all sorts of new hobbies and passions during the pandemic. We had to do something to quiet the existential dread on all sides. For me, I started inhaling Japan’s long-running Ultraman series […]

Review: Summer docs on mother’s health, Don McLean, Nolan Ryan

A cameraman records a musician onstage with a guitar on the set of the documentary "The Day the Music Died."

‘Aftershock’ In the U.S., a lot of the conversation surrounding pregnancy — whether it has to do with abortion or carrying a child to term — is concerned more with the health of the fetus […]

Nope review – Jordan Peele’s followup to Get Out and Us is a bit meh | Science fiction and fantasy films

Nope.

Jordan Peele’s strange, muddled, indigestible new UFO mystery looks like it had a good fairy and a dodgy fairy present at the birth. The good fairy is Steven Spielberg, to whose Close Encounters and Jaws […]

Clutch Announce New Album Sunrise on Slaughter Beach

Clutch's "Sunrise on Slaughter Beach" album art

Clutch have announced their 13th studio album, Sunrise on Slaughter Beach, set to arrive September 16th via Weathermaker Music. The album’s release date times nicely with Clutch’s previously announced North American tour with Helmet and […]

See ’00s Teen Star Tara Reid Now at 46 — Best Life

Tara Reid at the premiere of

In the early 2000s, Tara Reid was one of the queens of teen movies, especially thanks to her starring role in the first two American Pie movies. The actor also appeared in Cruel Intentions, The […]

Linda Evangelista Modeling Return After Claiming Cosmetic Procedure Left Her ‘Disfigured’

Linda Evangelista Modeling Return After Claiming Cosmetic Procedure Left Her 'Disfigured'

Last year she filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming she had been “permanently deformed” Linda Evangelista has made her return to modeling. The ’90s supermodel shared a picture from her new Fendi campaign to Instagram […]

‘If the dustmen sing my songs, I feel honoured!’: Heather Small on 90s pop, racism and embracing her Britishness | Music

Small with fellow M People (from left) Mike Pickering, Shovell and Paul Heard, in 1996.

Heather Small used to tell herself: if she could just have one song that everyone knew and expected her to sing over and over again, she would be happy. That she has many is a […]

‘My voice lends itself to sadness​ –​ I carry a lot of grief’​: Rebekah Del Rio, David Lynch’s musical muse​ | Music

Performing in 2015 in Los Angeles.

“I am sort of an emo – I love Morrissey,” admits Rebekah Del Rio. This is no surprise, given the way most of us were introduced to her. In David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, she plays […]

Four Tet’s Text Records Welcomes Hagop Tchaparian

Four Tet's Text Records Welcomes Hagop Tchaparian

Photo: Kieran Hebden Four Tet’s Text Records has released a new EP from Hagop Tchaparian. Tchaparian’s music mixes techno with field recordings of his travels through Armenian and Mediterranean culture. He has been gathering these […]