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On Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) and its Hungarian origins.
HBO’s DTF St. Louis has used its lurid premise to develop a cynical reading of midlife anxiety.
How a Santa Cruz sports bar's logo backfired in “Surf City.”
On Hoppers and Goat, two new animated films that are better than most.
Why should I go there to visit My Sensei? He might’ve just written me the part of a lifetime.
More New York Times couldn’t-care-less “journalism.” What year is it (#616)?
Tipping independents against the GOP.
Assembly Bill 1043's reach is staggering for all Californians.
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is a mess with little regard for the source material.
War Machine isn’t bad, but Alan Ritchson will be in a better movie someday.
A 2023 American Highways interview with record producer Vance Powell vs. a 1964 National Guardian interview with civil rights leader H. Rap Brown.
A Baltimore artist, poet, and teacher.
That creative people are heavily medicated might help explain the decline of popular music and film.
I wasn’t going to lose half of everything in a divorce.
Causing cardiac events on cable news since the 1990s.
Retro music inspires a new generation of thinkers.
Oscar nominees available to see online.
The system is rigged in favor of law enforcement.
In less than four years, one in three people worldwide will have their picture of the world painted by a system with no formal obligation to paint it honestly.
Making America the Great Satan again.
1873, Liverpool, England (Roger, Simon and Henry Stapleton).
Executive function, bottom-up processing, and a craggy historical novelist.
The singer from Tool and A Perfect Circle shops at Amoeba Music and talks about his selections.
The actor talks Hollywood and politics in this new 100 minute interview.
Lewis Largent talks to Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke in this April 25, 1993 episode of MTV's 120 Minutes.
The Governor of California talks about SAT scores, Jerry Lewis, and more in this new interview.
The late singer-songwriter lets loose in this rare tour footage from 1999.
The brothers talk about their 2001 film in this interview produced by the Criterion Collection.
The legendary musician performs one of his biggest hits on The Old Grey Whistle Test on Christmas Eve 1982.
The author talks about her book Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation and more in this new interview.
The writer returns to talk rock mechanics, Nick Fuentes, public avatars, and more.
The "looksmaxxxer" du jour talks to The New York Times for 77 minutes.