Roger Joseph Manning

Nicholas Buccola’s ‘The Fire Is Upon Us’ Is Obscured by the Smoke

/ 10 September 2020

Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is Upon US is, at times, marred by glibness, impatience, and ahistorical tendencies that suggest, to an extent, it is also a reflective of the deteriorating conditions that mark our public discourse in 2020.

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Governors Ball 2016: The Killers and M83 Embrace the Rain and Rock the Night

PopMatters Staff

/ 9 June 2016

Not even a horrendous rainstorm could hold back Governors Ball from embracing thy inner festival animal.

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Guns N’ Roses Crush Coachella to Reclaim Rock Crown

Greg M. Schwartz

/ 9 May 2016

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Various Artists: Miles Ahead Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

John Garratt

/ 21 April 2016

Don Cheadle, director and star of Miles Ahead, has assembled a mostly enticing soundtrack to his film, though still peppered with a few inessentials.

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Death Tripping Tibetan Style With Gaspar Noé’s ‘Enter the Void’

William Gibson

/ 25 March 2016

Reaching for the ultimate psychedelic experience, director Gaspar Noé found The Tibetan Book of the Dead, but did he know what he found when he crafted Enter the Void?

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Frank Sinatra Was a Strange Cat

PopMatters Staff

/ 15 December 2015

For many, Frank Sinatra is a caricature of a bygone era, a static character whose legacy commanded more respect than his work. That's only part of the story-- and so is this.

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DJ Spooky with Kronos Quartet: Rebirth of a Nation

John Garratt

/ 16 September 2015

Did you ever get the urge to "remix" a movie? One that just really stuck in your craw like nothing else? DJ Spooky lives out an artistic wet dream on Rebirth of a Nation.

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Don’t Open That Door! #61: ‘The Blob’ (1958)

David Maine

/ 14 August 2014

This week in our ongoing field guide to '50s horror and sci-fi movies and the creatures that inhabit them: those crazy kids save the world from marauding grape jelly in The Blob.

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A New Book Calls for a More Activist Black Church — But That Might Be Easier Said Than Done

Mark Reynolds

/ 18 March 2014

The difference between churches of service and activism is seen by the degree to which they hold to the philosophies of black theology, a school of religious thought that emerged in the wake of the racial tumult of the ‘60s.