Bowie: The 10 key tracks
PARIS -- David Bowie -- who died on Sunday, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his last album, Blackstar --...
Lucifer and Damien: Evil needs a hug
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
WE KNOW that evil is at large in the world -- you only have to read the news to be reminded of...
A good man with a gun
SAY THE name “Jacques Tourneur” and the first word come to mind for most folks is “horror” (the second is possibly “cat”). Tourneur had been directing since 1931, mainly shorts, finally made a splash early ’40s working for producer Val Lewton in Cat People (low budget, eerily beautiful) and I Walked With a Zombie (despite the pulpy title, my favorite adaptation of Jane Eyre). Say “Tourneur” and the word “westerns” rarely pops up -- but some of his westerns do in fact represent his finest work.
The 10 books you need to read this summer
By Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View
IF YOU are anything like me, you are probably looking forward to delving into several new and recent book releases...
Punishing
By Noel Vera
Television
Daredevil Season 2
Netflix
(Warning: story and plot twists of the Netflix series discussed in detail.)
WAS DAREDEVIL SEASON 2 an improvement over the first?...
Last Recode: definitely worth its price tag
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
IT’S difficult to pinpoint exactly how influential .hack (stylized in lower case and pronounced “dot hack”) has been as a series....
Jim James shares the 6 albums that influenced him the most
FOR HIS second solo album, Eternally Even, My Morning Jacket (MJM) frontman Jim James eschews his band’s jammier tendencies and dives even deeper into...
Anomalous
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Anomalisa
Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
CHARLIE KAUFMAN and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa (2015) was based on Kaufman’s “sound play” -- actors...
Bryan Adams goes retro with Get Up album
LOS ANGELES — It has been a long time coming.
Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, Get Up, is the ideal follow-up record...
Still trying to get home 30 years later
WRITTEN and directed by John Hughes, the celebrated comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles makes an on-time arrival for its 30th anniversary on Blu-ray Combo...
Jeff Buckley legend builds with new posthumous album
PARIS -- Jeff Buckley put out only one album before his death in 1997 but his legend has since steadily grown thanks to posthumous...
The undisputed king
LET’S FACE IT. The NBA 2K franchise is a venerable one built on both the intrinsic pull of its source material and the collective talent of its developers. Never has the National Basketball Association (NBA) been more popular, and its already immense global reach -- propped up by outstanding leadership and instantly recognizable marquee names -- continues to grow by the day. Meanwhile, Visual Concepts has turned the otherwise-vicarious experience of appreciating matches at the sport’s highest level into an extremely impressive undertaking.