Columns

Steel Magnolias
- Archikulture Digest
- October 1, 2021
Women meet and bond in a small town hair salon and solve all the world’s problems.
Female Trouble: A Halloween Watchlist of Female-Centric Horror.
- Stroke of Midnight
- October 1, 2021
31 fright films full of witches, spirits, hysterical women, and final girls.
New Information man!
- Mann About Sound
- September 28, 2021
New tunes to tickle your ears!
Mixtape 165 :: Sauce Piquante
- The Lacking Organization
- September 28, 2021
At a time when we need the positive carefree sound of French yeh-yeh the most, April March comes through with a spicy new number.
Wit
- Archikulture Digest
- September 25, 2021
A meditation on death, English literature and cancer.
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story Of Cannon Films
- Stroke of Midnight
- September 22, 2021
Documentary on the wild world of the schlockmeisters behind the legendary film studio, Cannon Films
Man of LaMancha
- Archikulture Digest
- September 21, 2021
Cervantes classic set in a bright, clean jail.

Mixtape 164 :: Radio Man ’56
- The Lacking Organization
- September 21, 2021
The Fogerty Brothers are putting their upbringing to good use in the genuinely psychedelic outfit Hearty Har, parsing the electric sitars and paisleys of long ago into a legitimate translation.
Mixtape 163 :: Magic Pants
- The Lacking Organization
- September 14, 2021
The Scientists have been conducting their Australian experiments in proto-punk for over four decades now, and it’s surprising that they’ve yet to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.
Disenchanted!
- Archikulture Digest
- September 13, 2021
Disney princesses aren’t so happily ever, after after all.
The Bodyguard
- Archikulture Digest
- September 12, 2021
A singer falls in love with her bodyguard, making for an awkward concert tour.
Mixtape 162 :: The Shame of Love
- The Lacking Organization
- September 7, 2021
Juliana Hatfield is once again in the middle of an unstoppable creative streak, now mixing her needle-sharp pop sensibilities with some truly out-there production.
Mixtape 161 :: Sand Angel
- The Lacking Organization
- August 31, 2021
As individuals, Jay Som and Palehound each have their musical quirks and unique style. Together as Bachelor they plot a strange new course through the realm of dream pop.
Mixtape 160 :: Petey Jones’ Locker
- The Lacking Organization
- August 24, 2021
The Ghoulies from Perth, Australia look like regular blokes caught out grocery shopping, but the sound they make is an urgent, insistent punk rock howl with a frenetic keyboard bubbling through.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Archikulture Digest
- August 7, 2021
A zany Sherlock Holmes parody hits on all the right clues.
Roadrunner
- Stroke of Midnight
- August 2, 2021
The uneasy ethics in Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Florida Festival of New Musicals
- Archikulture Digest
- August 1, 2021
Six new works of brilliant music and clever plots!
The Curse of the Bleeding 8th Graders
- Book Smart Aleck
- July 15, 2021
My classroom was cursed, and then the curse returned. Read on for the full story.
The Messy Sounds of Zola
- Stroke of Midnight
- July 12, 2021
A quick look at how everyday sounds heighten the tension in Zola (2021)
The Lacking Details 4
- The Lacking Organization
- July 1, 2021
This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.

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- Print Reviews
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- Mann About Sound
- January 13, 2022
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Shawscope Volume One Blu-ray
- Screen Reviews
- January 12, 2022
12 film box set of films from the legendary Hong Kong film studio, Shaw Brothers .
Seafarers
- Music Reviews
- January 10, 2022
// (Self released). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
The Black Keys
- Music Reviews
- January 7, 2022
El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Nonesuch Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
HARD + FAST
- Print Reviews
- January 5, 2022
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Gun Shot Wound: the Film
- Screen Reviews
- January 4, 2022
A documentary on gun violence in urban America