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2 days ago | 
joysauce.com | Andy Crump
Imagine it’s 2022. You’re looking for new music; whatever’s out now, fresh on the market, unheard by your external auditory meatus. Reviews for Squeeze, the sophomore record from Sasami Ashworth (better known as just Sasami), are positive, so you tune in expecting another dose of the shoegaze-y dream pop comprising her 2019 self-titled debut. What you get instead is “Skin a Rat,” a malicious industrial grind of unrestrained ferocity, led off with sing-song repetition of the title. It’s tense.
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5 days ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump
The most important component of Kali Uchis’ latest record, Sincerely,, is the comma in the title. Don’t worry: This isn’t a remark on the quality of the work, which is sterling, but a quick applause for ingenuity in creative conception. Without that little punctuation mark, the title betrays itself.
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5 days ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. It is disheartening to think that 10 years ago, give or take, rather than follow around an oligarch’s repulsive failson, his parasitic entourage, and the stripper he’s hired to roleplay as his girlfriend, Sean Baker would have stuck with the cleaning crew sweeping up the debris of New Year’s Eve bedlam littering the kid’s opulent mansion.
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5 days ago | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Steven Asarch
In the decades since Marco Brambilla’s Demolition Man leveled the American box office, the movie’s loyal fans remain plagued by one unanswered question: just how do those three seashells work, anyway?
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Andy Crump
2 hours agoHistoric hotel in Blowing Rock to be demolishedA historic hotel in the North Carolina High Country is being torn down.The Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock, which was built back in 1891, is set for …4 hours agoNext weekend to bring major closures on I-494, Hwy.
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1 week ago | 
joysauce.com | Andy Crump
What does the incoming generation owe to the outgoing? What burdens must the young carry on behalf of the old? If we refuse them, what happens to the historical record? Will we forget the past’s tragedies and horrors? Soberingly, who would we be without them? Questions like these linger in the clearing where art joins with activism.
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2 weeks ago | 
avclub.com | Andy Crump
Films starring Nicolas Cage after his late 2010s career resurgence broadly fall into one of two categories: “five-alarm freakout” and “hard truths.” If one sits down with a present-day Cage movie, the odds favor him falling into the throes of acute histrionics, or performing wistful regret accompanied by soul-stirring wisdom. That’s his biome, more or less, limited by climate but so vast that his rangings rarely follow the same trail twice.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Andy Crump
2 hours agoThe Surfer (2025) - Movie ReviewThe Surfer, 2025. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Justin Rosniak, Alexander Bertrand, Rahel Romahn, Nicholas …3 hours agoMovie review: Nicolas Cage catches surreal wave in ‘The Surfer’In Lorcan Finnegan’s existential surf-noir “The Surfer,” our titular wave worshipper (Nicolas Cage) learns the hard way that you can’t go home again.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Andy Crump
Films starring Nicolas Cage after his late 2010s career resurgence broadly fall into one of two categories: “five-alarm freakout” and “hard truths.” If one sits down with a present-day Cage movie, the odds favor him falling into the throes of acute histrionics, or performing wistful regret accompanied by soul-stirring wisdom. That’s his biome, more or less, limited by climate but so vast that his rangings rarely follow the same trail twice.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Andy Crump
Tom Hardy as Walker in <em>Havoc</em> Credit - Courtesy of NetflixNestled in the back half of Gareth Evans’ Havoc, a stunningly violent film that does exactly what it says on the tin, two parents sit down for an unexpected heart to heart about weariness and woe. One of them is corrupt politician Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker), who longs to reconcile with his estranged son, Charlie (Justin Cornwell).
