“I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world or my world in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe […]
This first film by the legendary Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. In it, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the […]
Noir horror written and directed by John Parker. Set in Los Angeles Skid Row, the film follows a woman, the Gamin (Adrienne Barrett), as she leaves her downtrodden hotel room and wanders the streets, becoming involved in several violent altercations as she also recalls her troubled upbringing.
British drama directed by Carol Reed. Joe (Jonathan Ashmore) lives in a bustling area of Londons East End with his mother Joanne (Celia Johnson), above a tailor shop run by the kindly Mr Kandinsky (David Kossoff). As Kandinsky regales Joe with folk tales about mythology, he shares that a captured unicorn has the ability to […]
All ten episodes from the first season of the spin-off of the Star Trek franchise. Set in the 23rd century, the show follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise as they explore the galaxy and carry out missions on behalf of Starfleet. The episodes are: Strange New Worlds, Children […]
This mysterious and beautiful music by Alessandro Stefana entrances me. Its fragility and tenderness bring comfort and understanding. It reflects the unique sensitivity of its creator, who has drawn on his experience to bring this profoundly moving, and life affirming record to the world. – Polly Jean Harvey, Executive producer Ipecac Recordings proudly presents the […]
For his first record in….uh, well, just a little over a year (!), Bill Callahan’s given us his first Gold Record. They can’t all be gold, and they’re not all six years apart either — all good! You could probably call the album “Gold Records,” too: all the songs have a stand-alone feel, like singles, […]
