December 2025 Archives

Dreamy piano-led ambience that evokes winter wonderlands galore.

Behold the purest cinema of 2025.

The animated fantasy, which premiered in Japan in November, will arrive in American theaters on February 6, 2026.

Continuing in my quest to watch all of those movies whose VHS covers fascinated me back in the earl…

Works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, and George and Ira Gershwin — to name just a few — will become free for all to copy and adapt next year.

The band’s latest album trades in elegantly moody post-punk and darkwave.

The Atlanta-based duo take the sounds of ’90s dream pop and shoegaze and make them their own.

The multi-instrumentalist rejoined the band in 2022 as a touring member.

The Return of the King contains some of Peter Jackson’s biggest liberties with Tolkien’s original e…

This is where Peter Jackson’s liberties with Tolkien’s story really become noticeable, for better o…

I’m sure that when Peter Jackson — director of such splatter classics as Bad Taste, Meet the Feeble…

When construction workers uncover the long-lost burial ground of the Black Ninja clan, the clan wil…

I’ve been an unabashed Edgar Wright fan for years now thanks to titles like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the …

Featuring Johnny Cage, Odysseus, Wile E. Coyote, Shaun the Sheep, Aslan, Doctor Doom, Paul Atreides, and many more.

B isn’t just some black ops super-soldier taking out America’s worst enemies. He’s also a virtual d…

I’ve previously enjoyed some of Greg Pak’s indie work (e.g., Mech Cadet Yu, Ronin Island), so I was…

Stop trusting social media platforms to do right by your website’s content.

A lovely slice of melancholy Russian indie rock.

Autechre meets acoustic guitar.

This month’s subscriber-only playlist and podcast episode delve into some cosmically minded electronic music.