Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' shows deep roots but lacks definition
Frank Ocean has finally released the long-awaited “Blonde,” a gender and genre-bending collection of innuendos sprinkled with drugs, cars and glitter that confounds and disappoints.
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Al Jazeera premieres documentary on youth
The diverse group of teenagers in Al Jazeera America’s new documentary TV series “Edge of 18” come from different backgrounds. But as they face independence, they all have one thing in common - intense, escalating pressure.
Legos save the world in new 3-D film
A witty, side-splittingly hysterical movie with dialogue so sharp and funny that it rivals many current comedies—and it’s about Legos? Oh yes, it sure is. “The Lego Movie” is the most unexpected movie of the year. You certainly don’t have to be a young child or a lover of colorful bricks to apprecia
Movie Review: "World's End"
Fact: The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz” and “The World’s End”) is connected to a Cornetto ice cream, featuring scenes where a main character purchases a Cornetto flavor. According to its website, “Cornetto consists of a delicious, crispy-baked wafer, coated inside from top to
Sonic Treatment: Mount Eerie transforms natural landscape into an aural environment
By Peter Hernandez. Phil Elverum has found himself in the present with "Clear Moon" wherein sonic environments resemble rolling fog and dense mountaintops without easily falling into a specific genre.
Mystique, experimentation at dance festival
By Peter Hernandez and Sara BloombergThe Guardsman
Spaghetti-flinging girls in pretty white dresses, tabletop Serbian dances, and dancers pausing to converse delighted ODC Theater's first annual Walking Distance Dance Festival.
From June 29 to July 1, new trends and medias were seen in performances by some of the
REVIEW: New movie is a disturbing experience about loss of identity
Elizabeth Olsen stars as Martha, a young woman who attempts to find her place in a household cult disguised as a family and her struggle to find her own identity, in the the new psychological thriller “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”