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Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, and I finish The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
The Gilded Age works because Julian Fellowes has become much less didactic 25 years after Gosford Park.
A 2025 The Ransom Note interview with house music DJ Ron Trent vs. a 2012 Pin-Up interview with architect Jeanne Gang.
A musical genre that can't remain true to its origins is destined to be replaced.
Heel is a genre-hopping high-concept film with a premise that would’ve made for a compelling Shirley Jackson short story.
Trouble lurks for a 10-year-old in 1965.
Wild Horse Nine is Martin McDonagh’s worst film yet.
Mark di Suvero, Talking Heads, Ebenezer Stevens, and others who've graced Vernon Blvd.
Alberto Moravia's bloated novel Contempt and Jean-Luc Godard's masterful, transcendent cinema adaptation.
On The Divine Tragedy's pop culture corrective and the sappy nihilism of Club Kid.
Left-wing celebrators are shoveling dirt over MAGA, while cooler Republican heads are betting on a far-left Democrat overreach.
Lured is a cinematic oddity that shows Lucille Ball's acting chops go far beyond her iconic comedic roles.
Colours of Time romanticizes France’s past and averts its gaze from the future.
Another complicated 1980s love story that begins in a record store.
Toys to buy, pets to pamper, no children to raise.
In important ways, Trump 2 has been awful even by Trump 1 standards.
Contemplating the future.
Exploitation dreck is allowed to hate cops.
Japanese author Ryu Murakami has died at age 74; he will be remembered for his visceral novels having hyper-realistic reflections of modern society.
It’s not manly or unmanly to want to turn off your brain in the bedroom and feel owned and taken.
A pundit reflects.
That's my advice to you, young man.
This isn’t The Bourne Identity where all the characters have unlimited stamina and years of instinctual training.
The filmmaker talks Elvis Presley, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and his obsession with CSI in this May 11, 2005 interview.
The actor talks about breaking through and Quentin Tarantino's unparalleled confidence in this new interview.
The Led Zeppelin guitarist talks about The Beatles just six years after they disbanded.
The actress talks about Éric Rohmer, Jacques Tati, The Elephant Man, 3 Women, and more.
Candid footage of the iconic actress outside of her apartment in May 1962.
The band play the entirety of their 2005 classic Feels in Pomona on October 26, 2026.
The band perform "Sweet Lover Hangover" in this May 1, 1996 episode of Late Night.
The pop sensation extols the virtues of UHA Mikakuto Gummy Candy in this 1999 television commercial.
The author talks about heroin and how it worked for him.
The artist talks to Much Music about her album Bedtime Stories, fame, sexism, and more in this recently remastered interview.
From the double A-side single "Crazy" b/w "Woman With No Weaknesses."