By 1991, Kevin Costner wasn't riding a hot streak. He was THE Hot Streak. The man was untouchable. Bull Durham . The Untouchables . Field of Dreams . Dances with Wolves . Hit after hit after hit. In a...
Slaughterday’s Dread Emperor sounds less like a new release and more like something somebody accidentally unearthed from a flooded basement rehearsal room in 1992. The whole album has this...
Mystery still matters. Steven Spielberg 's Disclosure Day feels less like a new movie and more like running into an old friend you haven't seen in years—and then realizing halfway through the conversa...
Some movies are slick and focus-grouped and made to offend no one at all. Karen the Beauty Queen Butcher is not one of those movies. And thank Christ for that. Directed by Zachary Snygg...
Some movies become part of your life without you even knowing it. It feels like I was practically raised on Harry and the Hendersons . It was one of those VHS staples that seemed to be constantly play...
Fields of Elysium ’s In Ancient Contemplation sounds alive in a way most technical death metal records don’t anymore. Not polished-alive either. More like a band sweating through complicated ideas in...
Some albums feel written. Fading Aeon feels exhumed. Dragged out of frozen dirt with broken fingernails and lungs full of black water. Fading Aeon don't sound interested in being “modern.” Thank Chris...
Imagine surviving years of captivity, making it home, and then realizing the people waiting for you might know more than they're saying. That's the uneasy territory writer, director, and actor Harley...
I went into Premarital expecting a light family comedy and was pleasantly surprised by how heartfelt it is. The setup is straightforward: Pastor Whitaker and his family are determined to convert their...
I’ve been following The Voynich Code for a while now, and Insomnia is still the record I keep going back to the most. Not because it’s their heaviest album or their most technical one. It just feels t...
The Dormant Darkness sounds like one of those albums a guy makes when he's more obsessed with heavy music than just about anything else. As soon as the record starts, Buried Realm comes out swinging....
Bubba Ho-Tep and I have finally made up. I get it. I finally get why the movie absolutely works and why my punk-ass comments when it was originally released were so naïve. To borrow a line from Gatsby...
Seeking cosmic technical death metal for your earholes? Search no more. Mithras already solved the problem back in 2016 with On Strange Loops — a record that doesn’t just play like a collection of son...
Some movies strive for prestige, some movies chase awards, and some movies look you dead in the eye, hoist a glowing Power Sword toward the heavens, and yell, "By the power of Grayskull!" before launc...
