One of the most storied, successful and stylish filmmakers in modern European history, Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar has shelves filled with festival trophies and awards. His career began in the 1980s, buoyed by the newfound freedoms following the fall of the dictator, General Franco, and he blossomed from being an anarchic rapscallion into aparagon of taste,
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In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only ahandful of titles that truly stand out, and one that deserves to be considered among not just the best zombie movies but greatest horror movies of this century is Yeon Sang-ho’sTrain to Busan. The high-speed masterpiece of ravenous zombie apocalypse taking place on atrain
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Beyoncé, Maren Morris, Shania Twain, Sabrina Carpenter, Gillian Welch, Debbie Harry, Joan Armitrading, Lee Ann Womack, Barbra Streisand, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Cat Stevens, Kelly Lee Owens, Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Eminem, Kelly Clarkson, Cat Stevens, and others have also shared messages paying homage to Parton. Her 9 to 5 co-stars, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda,
Dolly Parton has died at 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced the death on social media. “Dolly opened the door for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent,” he said. “From her example, we believed that anything was possible.” Parton’s
Philadelphia indie rock band 2nd Grade have an album on the way. Girls and Boys is out October 30 via Lame-O Records. The record includes the previously released “Cellophane Girls” and a new single, “Anywhere Girls,” out today. Listen to that below. The 20-track album is split into 10 songs about “girls” and 10 about
The announcement of Cameron Winter’s new live album, recorded last December at Carnegie Hall, elided mention of the concert film Paul Thomas Anderson was seen shooting the same night. Today, the veil of secrecy has lifted: Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall will air in U.S. theaters starting November 20. Rather than arriving all at
The maestro of melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar, is currently making some of the finest films of his storied career – during his run from 2016’s Julieta onwards the Spanish icon has applied astrict “bangers only” policy to his creative output, and his scintillating new one, Bitter Christmas, abides by that self-set edict. Like all autofiction worth
“You’re doing alot of hearing and understanding, but Ijust don’t know if you do,” an embittered helpline caller complains of the staid young adviser at the end of the phone. The understanding ear, Izzy (Avalon Fast), lacks the experiences that led the speaker to dial. She simply says the words she thinks the other woman
Here we see the flipside of this narrative of exclusion: if we are going to be treated as violent scum, then we shall wear it as abadge of pride. Of course, this is atidy gloss on amuch more complex cultural issue. Football hooliganism was never simply an innocent pastime unfairly vilified by abourgeois media, but
Jeremiah Chiu, the synthesist at the heart of the Los Angeles improv quintet SML, has unveiled his debut solo LP as a composer. Due out via International Anthem, Edge Conditions will be available via physical editions and digital download on October 9, but won’t hit DSPs until October 27. Lead single “Plastic Mind / Elastic
Shudder to Think are releasing a new EP, Who Sent You? The post-hardcore band’s three-song project lands on September 11. Listen to the title track below. Vocalist Craig Wedren in a press release, “‘Who Sent You?’ is about my teenage years in Cleveland in the 1980s, just before I moved to D.C. with my outsized
After releasing a very bloody teaser last week, Queens of the Stone Age have properly announced their next album. Perfecth arrives October 30 via Matador, and a new single from the record, “Insignificant Other,” is out now. Check it out below. Recorded between New Orleans and Los Angeles, Perfecth is a purposefully imperfect flip on
Any book could potentially be a book club book, especially when it comes to book clubs that are focused on specific topics or genres. But then there is that category of books that fits what everyone thinks when they think of book club books. These books tend to have lots of character development, explore themes
Amy Winehouse’s landmark album Back to Black will receive a 20th anniversary reissue on October 23, appended with various rarities and a live album. Among them are four unreleased demos—in addition to several included on a prior deluxe edition—and a handful of B-sides. The live album, recorded at Amsterdam’s Paradiso on February 8, 2007, is
The Last Prophet of Palestine by Noor Al-Ahmad (Queer Fiction) Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de l’Horizon, translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Nonbinary Fiction) Fierceland by Omar Musa (Gay Fiction) (Reprint) Love Me Like a Rock Song by Shelly Jay Shore (Queer Speculative Fiction) I Kissed Her First by Betty Cayouette (F/F Romance) The
Children of Blood and Bone is a YA fantasy that has it all: adventure, a fierce protagonist, forbidden magic, the beginnings of an enemies-to-lovers romance, female friendship, stunning world building, and some truly epic mounts. Zélie and Amari, the former from an oppressed community of divîners and the latter a princess and daughter of the


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Minor characters take center stage in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s Hamlet send-up, marking its 60th anniversary this year. Set in the wings and around the action of Shakespeare’s play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern imagines the shenanigans Hamlet’s buddies-turned-betrayers get up to while they’re figuring out how to figure out why he’s so bummed.
There are so many wonderful books hitting the shelves these days, so it can be hard to decide what to pick up. That’s why I’ve rounded up a wide variety of new releases due out this fall. Autumn is hands down my favorite book season. It may not snow where I live (and I sure
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