Love, Death & Photosynthesis
Bela Koe-Krompecher recalls love and death in musty Ohio basements in Love, Death & Photosynthesis while Jenny Mae’s What’s Wrong with Me? Singles and Unreleased Tracks provides the soundtrack. Carl F. Gauze reviews.
Bela Koe-Krompecher recalls love and death in musty Ohio basements in Love, Death & Photosynthesis while Jenny Mae’s What’s Wrong with Me? Singles and Unreleased Tracks provides the soundtrack. Carl F. Gauze reviews.
Carl F. Gauze reviews some crisp and clean Shakespeare on a super cool set.
Love, Death, and Photosynthesis is Bela Koe-Krompecher’s memoir of addiction, friendship, mental illness, and the music scene of early ’90s Ohio.
Shitty Times Volume 3. Review by Julius C. Lacking.
A spacey exploration of love , pain and reality as it might exist in cyberspace.
Matchmaker Dolly Levy makes her own match, saving some young woman from the grouchy yet wealthy Horace Vandegelt as live theater returns to Winter Garden.
The Spitfire Grill is a sprightly musical with heart, soul and some decent side dishes.
Fairies and flights of romance make this Shakespeare’s frothiest and best love play.
A woman and her playwright can’t decide on a through line.
Dublin musicians meet, fall in love, and try to crack the big time in music.
Federico GarcÃa Lorca’s Rural Trilogy comes to life as a musical.
Black Beauty (High Moon). Review by Carl F Gauze.
A man with Asperger’s syndrome looks high and low for a woman to love as we learn about the details of his condition.
Proto-type Theater , a performance troupe based in Brooklyn, NY and Lancaster, England, revisits themes of love, death, and fame seen through the prism of Bonnie and Clyde in Third Person (Redux).
LOVE Review by Jen Cray.
A young woman enters the constricted world of a small diner and changes the owner’s life in this European film. Carl F Gauze finds the beauty amongst varying shades of gray.
Out Here + False Start (Collectors’ Choice). Review by Jessica Whittington.
Yosuga (Jagjaguwar). Review by Aaron Shaul.
God Save the Clientele (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat (Vanguard). Review by Andrew Ellis.
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.
Late bloomer Tony Bowman spins a tale of past decades with a Jimmy Buffett soundtrack.
This week Christopher Long scores a timely treasure — a near-mint vinyl copy of The Dream Weaver, the classic 1975 LP from Gary Wright — for just eight bucks.