Feb 10, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet Festival of Shadows by Atelier Sentô (2023) Every year, residents in a remote Japanese village are tasked with helping the recently deceased co…
Feb 10, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht (2023) I daresay that the vast majority of those who read The Mysteries, myself included, will do so becau…
Feb 9, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Marvels by Nia DaCosta (2023) To its credit, The Marvels felt like director Nia DaCosta was trying to do something different with…
Feb 9, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta (2020) The American Civil War raged on for nearly fifty years, leading to a divided nation that lives unde…
Feb 8, 2024 Music The Cure is Reissuing 1993’s Paris Live Album The upcoming reissue will feature two songs that weren’t on the original 1993 release.
Feb 8, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet Big Trouble in Little China by John Carpenter (1986) John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China never fails to put a huge smile on my face, starting w…
Feb 8, 2024 Anime Cultural Diet Megazone 23: Part Two by Ichirō Itano (1986) Set six months after the events of Megazone 23: Part One — which ends on a cliffhanger — Part Two f…
Feb 8, 2024 Anime Cultural Diet Megazone 23: Part One by Noboru Ishiguro (1985) Noboru Ishiguro’s Megazone 23 is one of those anime titles that I’ve always heard about but had nev…
Feb 7, 2024 TV Cultural Diet Reservation Dogs, Season Three (2023) On the one hand, Reservation Dogs’ third and final season felt more directionless and less cohesive…
Feb 7, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Killer by David Fincher (2023) On paper, watching a nameless hitman methodically clean up all of the loose ends after a hit goes s…
Feb 7, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet Enter the Ninja by Menahem Golan (1981) Along with Chuck Norris’ The Octagon, Enter the Ninja kicked off the “ninja craze” that swept throu…
Feb 7, 2024 Music “Floating on a Moment” by Beth Gibbons The Portishead singer’s upcoming solo debut album explores themes of aging, motherhood, and menopause.
Feb 6, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet Kong: Skull Island by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (2017) Shamelessly aping (npi) Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now for a monster movie might be a little…
Feb 6, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews (2019) I’m not exactly sure how I learned about This Was Our Pact, but I’m glad I did. Written and illustr…
Feb 6, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Assassin by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2015) It threw me for a loop back in 2015 when Hou Hsiao-hsien, who is now retired, announced that he was…
Feb 5, 2024 Music “Japan” by Slow Salvation The dream pop duo returns with a new single filled with languorous guitars and vocals.
Feb 3, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Beekeeper by David Ayer (2024) I should’ve known we were in for a rough time when Jason Statham’s bad-ass one-liner to a villain w…
Feb 3, 2024 Personal My Cultural Diet for January 2024: Reacher, Brandon Sanderson, Monarch, Asteroid City A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Feb 2, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Equalizer 2 by Antoine Fuqua (2018) The first Equalizer movie only worked as well as it did because of Denzel Washington. In the case o…
Feb 2, 2024 Music Brow Beat (Unplugged Alternative) by Various Artists (Review) Alarma Records’ compilation features acoustic performances from some of the biggest names in ’90s Christian alternative music.