We’ve all had situationships—those yes-no-maybe-so relationships when the other half can’t seem to make up their mind. With her new song, “If Only,” singer-songwriter Taylor Bickett calls out the cowardice[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Michael Gabriele’s Unholy Night twists together the campiness of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the cheery terror of Krampus, and the sobering aftertaste of Camille Griffin’s[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Angus Silver’s Insectasy aims for bizarro eroticism, but it neither gets gross and weird enough nor sexually charged enough to arouse the senses. Its sticky[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Casey Walker’s Home Bodies robotically shuffles between homage and a sleepy The Twilight Zone carbon copy. Sci-fi thrillers can so easily fall into the Black[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Tim Riedel’s Ancestral Beasts follows a well-trodden path of familial roots, burying the past, and learning to move on. But it fails to generate anything[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Kasper Kalle’s No Rest for the Wicked adapts the 1884 short story, Manor, written by German author and out gay man Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and[...]
Luna Keller worked through a bad mental health season by writing her new song, “Children of the Sun.” Its glistening strings soothe the soul as she works through troubled times,[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Someone’s Daughter arrives like a hive of angry bees in a hot tin roof. Von Carolsfeld, who co-wrote the script with Doug[...]
JustWatch.com Gianluca Lasaracina’s Watchful Eyes is your standard found footage film—until it isn’t. Lasaracina, who co-wrote the script with Riccardo Silli and Filippo Tancredi, shows great respect for the first-person[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Makoto Ueda surprises with his directorial debut, You Are the Film. At a time when theatrical tentpole films push creative and thematic boundaries, seeing an[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Ian Faria’s Big Break is sure to be a romping crowd pleaser. The film mines the comedy/horror chops of genre titans such as Josh Ruben,[...]
The great indie-pop mastermind Blond in Car teams up with Jack Newsome for a new collaboration called “How to Be a Mystery.” Robyn, eat your heart out. The scorching duet[...]
Cooper Greer heads to the dusty streets of the West with his smoky new song, “Mustangs.” The giddy-up of the arrangement barrels ahead like a, well, mustang skittering to the[...]
Life doesn’t always work out the way you planned. That’s the pulsing core of Cade Hoppe‘s foamy new track, “Lake Michigan.” He uses the story of driving from the East[...]
“Could have been around the world in 80 days,” sings the rasp-voiced Shannon Clark, “but I fell asleep upon the train.” His new song, “Postcards,” sees him trekking through the[...]
