The boys sit down with Conner Reed, a recent BU alum who is now the arts & culture editor at Portland Monthly Magazine, to spit facts on purchasing A24 candles, being a powerful art critic and...
It starts with a melody. From this comes the chorus — the drums, the bassline and the synthesizer — which is then built into the body of the song. The vocals come last, and then it’s all mixed...
The first shot of “Allied,” Robert Zemeckis’ new romantic thriller, is one of its best. What seems like a panorama of the Moroccan desert suddenly becomes a tracking shot: our hero Max (Brad...
“Stupid F%&king Bird” seems like a stereotypical collegiate production -- an artsy, small-scale work that seethes with a lack of originality and overplayed acting. The characters of the play,...
On a basic level, all movies serve the same purpose: to answer questions. Maybe they answer one question, maybe several, but no matter the number, an inquisitive engine drives every cinematic enterprise....
There is perhaps no taller order in pop criticism than an unbiased Lady Gaga review.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done; you have an opinion about Lady Gaga. Though her titanic,...
Music is compelling when it’s sad.
This is not news; it’s biology. Our brains are wired to associate emotion with sound, and the idea that we could go from happy to sad at the stir of a violin is...
“Timeless” is an overused descriptor that’s almost never as apt as it would like to be.
When people say something is timeless, they’re often trying to say that it reminds them of a particularly...
Trey Edward Shults’ “Krisha,” the 2015 SXSW Grand Jury Winner, begins and ends on a face.
The face belongs to Krisha Fairchild, Shults’ aunt and his film’s titular character. In the first...
It’s an interesting cultural moment for the man-child, and this was only proven further by Kyle Kinane’s Sunday comedy set at the Royale.
The mid-2000s, with the sudden omnipresence of the Judd...
Konstantin Treplev would’ve loved Terrence Malick.
Treplev, a young, brooding playwright, spends much of “The Seagull” — the Anton Chekhov play of which he’s the focus — lamenting that...
The opening seconds of Danish writer and director Tobias Lindholm’s “A War” show us something we think we’ve seen before.
There are men in uniform, trudging through what appears to be Afghanistan....
