Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

Few bands convey the dreariness of the colder seasons, as well as the wistfulness for something better as well as Hood does.

Hood updates their pastoral post-rock with glitchy electronics and Anticon hip-hop to create a compelling wintry sound.

Gantz is positioned as a dark, nihilistic story about mankind’s darker nature. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

An entirely logical, if sometimes sorely flawed, follow-up to Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love.

Easily one of, if not the, darkest and most somber film that Chan has made to date.

A very solid debut from a group that clearly knows their strengths and plays to them consistently from beginning to end.

Noi the Albino possesses an otherness that makes it a truly surprising, engaging, and thought-provoking debut feature.

For those of you looking for anime with substance and depth, plus tons of style and atmosphere, I can’t recommend Satoshi Kon’s latest work highly enough.

Pascal Humbert’s cinematic music conjures up images of rundown desert locales and holes-in-the-wall.

Rainstick Orchestra’s music doesn’t quite come together in a way that ultimately satisfies.

‘Blister’ is a hidden gem, one that both affirms the value of our hobbies while also reminding us that there is a real world out there.

The EP comes across as more an experiment, a toss-off than anything else.

Ultimately, only hardcore fans of the band need to pick this up.

Understated, subtle, patiently constructed electronic pop at its finest.

I find it rather troubling and disappointing that Piano Magic’s songs have become this predictable.

The fact that their music still has plenty of its own charm says something to me.

About as perfect a summation of Slowdive’s career as one can find.

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s sophomore film possesses style, attention to detail and character, and depth.

A fun, offbeat little film that showed me there’s more to Hong Kong cinema than heroic bloodshed and kung-fu.