Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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In the Heart of the Sea
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Ron Howard’s latest film as director, In the Heart of the Sea, tells the story of the whaleship Essex and its unfortunate fate following its encounter with an enormous white whale in 1820. -
Creed
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Rocky Balboa is back except now he’s a bit older, a bit slower and taking more of a back seat in Creed. -
SOPHIE: Product
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Product is a brief collection of UK-based producer and rising electronic star SOPHIE’s most mind-bending and innovative works. -
GUM: Glamorous Damage
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Glamorous Damage is one giant intergalactic trip where synthesizers are fused together with laser beams and 80’s glam rock - over the top theatrics wrapped in glitter and sequins. -
The Crow's Egg
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The delicate and tender film seems almost like a fable, but at its heart it is an indictment of the exclusive and divisive Indian class system. -
Mortido
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As the show progresses, surfaces get stripped away and daubed with swirls of lipstick and blood. -
Le1f: Riot Boi
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He is nothing if not an original and innovative artist, playing with tone, colour, light and space throughout the record, transcending what is expected of hip-hop. -
The Subjects
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The Subjects, which has been billed as an "anti-superhero" film, is a smart and original deconstruction of the tropes of superheroes and superpowers. -
He Named Me Malala
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Malala is now just 18, 16 at the time that He Named Me Malala was filmed, and yet she is already being transformed into a mythical figure. -
Grimes: Art Angels
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Pop music is the new rebellion. Shiny synths and danceable rhythms are the new electric guitar, sending uptight squares running in terror. -
Ollie McGill Trio at 505
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You may know him as the keyboardist and backing vocalist from The Cat Empire, but Ollie McGill is currently also doing some fine work of a different angle, heading up a new piano trio. -
Duck Hunting
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The characters wheedle and stutter and spit out their lines, adopting the postures and gestures of their emotions and relationships. They often speak their lines to one another while facing the audience, as if we are the mirror in which they can see one another. -
Floating Points: Elaenia
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Shepherd has a scientific mind and a love of machines, and in keeping with that Elaenia evokes various things, from black holes, to space travel, to humming electric currents to blinding lights. -
Freeheld
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If one were to stow one’s cynicism in a safe place for the duration of the film’s relatively brief runtime, Freeheld does reveal some warm and emotionally gripping performances and a genuinely touching narrative. -
Mistress America
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Mistress America is slight in story, but stuffed to the brim with character. -
Joanna Newsom: Divers
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Divers, the latest work from the Californian harpist and singer seems like the first time we are truly seeing who Joanna Newsom is. -
My Zinc Bed
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David Hare's play My Zinc Bed is another vehicle for Hare to meditate (once again) on the question of contemporary society as a bleak place where so many individuals are floundering. -
RENT Standing Ovation
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“RENT at Hayes Theatre Co feels like an inevitability,” says producer Toby Francis. -
Deerhunter: Fading Frontier
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...perhaps it was a sudden brush with death that influenced Fading Frontier, the gentlest and most immediately likeable album that Deerhunter has ever made. -
Neon Indian: VEGA INTL. Night School
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Many of the songs on VEGA INTL. Night School would sound equally appropriate on a crowded dance floor or soundtracking a wistful Sofia Coppola movie.