Mar 23, 2002 Music Oar by Skip Spence (Review) Oar is a spectacular achievement of truth and beauty, an example of raw emotion reduced to its purest form.
Mar 23, 2002 Music The Future That Used To Be by Mark Protus (Review) Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Late Night/Early Morning EP by Esthelle (Review) A nice EP offering 3 quite different tracks.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Laughing All the While by Echo Orbiter (Review) Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Hotel Lives by Simon Joyner (Review) A collection of stark, regretful vignettes of longing, loneliness, broken dreams, and haunting memories.
Mar 23, 2002 Music The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy (Review) Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.
Mar 23, 2002 Movies The Bride with White Hair by Ronny Yu (Review) This visually striking martial arts fantasy is ultimately about the consequences of putting individual desires before all else.
Mar 17, 2002 Movies Donnie Darko by Richard Kelly (Review) There’s no question that Donnie Darko is an ambitious film, and at times, almost too ambitious.
Mar 3, 2002 Anime Kiki’s Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki (Review) Kiki’s Delivery Service never devolves to a childish, juvenile comedy, nor does it become overly melodramatic and pretentious.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Bright Flight by The Silver Jews (Review) Unfortunately, the album lacks the tunes to keep up with its masterful lyrics.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Songs in a Northern Key by Varnaline (Review) Songs in a Northern Key shows an artist at the height of his powers.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Neu! 75 by Neu! (Review) Like both the albums that preceded it, Neu! 75 offers what are at times, frustrating glimpses of possibilities.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Amnesiac by Radiohead (Review) Perhaps Radiohead’s most intense, experimental, and unconventional album to date.
Feb 26, 2002 Music Structures From Silence by Steve Roach (Review) These compositions move and flow like giant pools of color, shifting at the same graceful pace as the landscape’s colors when the moon slowly moves over it.
Feb 24, 2002 Movies South of Heaven, West of Hell by Dwight Yoakam (Review) If I had to sum up the movie in one sentence, I would describe it as a “PBS western directed by Quentin Tarantino as a soap opera.”
Feb 23, 2002 Movies The Prodigal Son by Sammo Hung (Review) The Prodigal Son’s martial arts displays are hampered by wild mood swings between goofiness and stomach-churning violence.
Feb 23, 2002 Movies Brotherhood of the Wolf by Christophe Gans (Review) On its surface, “Brotherhood of the Wolf” should not work.
Feb 16, 2002 Music A Story in White by Aereogramme (Review) Aereogramme always seems to introduce a fatal flaw into their songs.
Feb 16, 2002 Music Distant Early Warning by Icebreaker International (Review) There’s very little here, politically or musically, that’s worth caring all that much about.
Feb 16, 2002 Music Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever by Explosions In The Sky (Review) Explosions in the Sky takes what should be a tried and true musical formula and turns it into something primal and affecting.