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Fluid Dynamics: Sexual Displacement in Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’

Fluid Dynamics: Sexual Displacement in Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’

Billy Wilder’s most savage of American comedies The Apartment, skewers corporate culture and patriarchal structures while challenging viewers to read its spills and overflows as more than just accidents.

Grails Balance Their Scales: The Reckoning of ‘Anches En Maat’

Grails Balance Their Scales: The Reckoning of ‘Anches En Maat’

Portland’s experimental post-rock kingpins Grails mark two decades since their debut with a new full-length retrospective LP and chat with PopMatters.

‘Clics Modernos’ at 40: Charly García’s Problematic Post-Modern Masterpiece

‘Clics Modernos’ at 40: Charly García’s Problematic Post-Modern Masterpiece

With Clics Modernos, Charly García veered away from overt political commentary in favor of taking it to the dance floor. Puzzled fans – even the album cover screamed post-modernism – didn’t hold back their outrage.

10 Underrated Rock Singers

10 Underrated Rock Singers

Too many bands feature rock singers that merely get the job done and not much else. Here we list ten unheralded vocalists who caught our ear and stayed there.

Funk Producer Jamma-Dee Distorts Time on ‘Perceptions’

Funk Producer Jamma-Dee Distorts Time on ‘Perceptions’

Despite not playing an instrument growing up, Jamma-Dee’s love of crate-digging and funk soon birthed their own colorful contribution to the genre.

What the Wonder Years’ ‘The Greatest Generation’ Means to the Rest of Us

What the Wonder Years’ ‘The Greatest Generation’ Means to the Rest of Us

The Wonder Years’ The Greatest Generation is a vulnerable document of the struggle of living with pain and suffering and the desire to overcome it through loving relationships and empathetic communities.

Actor Aidan Gillen on His Role in Noir Love Letter to Dublin, ‘Barber’

Actor Aidan Gillen on His Role in Noir Love Letter to Dublin, ‘Barber’

Irish actor Aidan Gillen talks about his lead role, and the freedom given to him to define his character, in Fintan Connolly’s Dublin-set modern noir, Barber.

Camp and the Hyperreal Telenovela in Almodóvar’s ‘All About My Mother’

Camp and the Hyperreal Telenovela in Almodóvar’s ‘All About My Mother’

In All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar leverages hyperreality through a camp lens to narrate a story that is as rich in theatricality as it is in the nuanced emotionality of the dream.

Fefe Dobson Is Sick With Emotion Over First LP in 13 Years

Fefe Dobson Is Sick With Emotion Over First LP in 13 Years

Pop-punk’s Fefe Dobson returns with her first new album in 13 years this Friday. She chats about Emotion Sickness and her growth as an artist.

Daniel Guebel’s ‘The Jewish Son’ Invokes Kafka’s ‘Dearest Father’

Daniel Guebel’s ‘The Jewish Son’ Invokes Kafka’s ‘Dearest Father’

In The Jewish Son, Daniel Guebel invokes Kafka’s “Dearest Father” to tell the story of a complicated father-son relationship.

The Menacing, Grimy Weirdness of Melvins’ ‘Houdini’ at 30

The Menacing, Grimy Weirdness of Melvins’ ‘Houdini’ at 30

Once Houdini dropped, all the agonizing over whether Melvins would debase themselves and compromise their sound petered out before we were halfway into “Hooch”.

A Woman’s War Is Never Done: Wojciech Has’ ‘How to Be Loved’

A Woman’s War Is Never Done: Wojciech Has’ ‘How to Be Loved’

A telling scene in Wojciech Has’ How to Be Loved comments on how a woman’s viewpoint must be injected into male-created art without permission.