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How Ang Lee's 'The Wedding Banquet' changed my life in high school

6 days ago | joysauce.com | Andy Crump

I was attending high school at the Cambridge School of Weston in tony Weston, Massachusetts, back in the early 2000s, when I saw The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee’s sophomore film, for the first time; I haven’t been the same person since.
Daughter of Swords Balances the Observational With the Personal on Alex

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. What you might notice first on Alex, the sophomore record from Daughter of Swords, the project of Alex Sauser-Monnig, is discordance: From track to track, verse to verse, no two songs here sound alike in tone or texture.
Valerie June Teaches Us New Ways to Resist on Owls, Omens and Oracles

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump

It is easy, in times of duress and anxiety, such as the numbingly stupid, nigh cataclysmic one we’re presently weathering, to stew in one’s alarm. We inhale dread, we exhale fear. Before long, these emotions, triggered via the constant intake of reports on democracy’s demise, whether administered by social media doom scrolling or the morning deluge of urgent Substack news bulletins, become a cage: They are what we live in and the filter we view the world through.
"Black Mirror" reflects on itself

2 weeks ago | salon.com | Andy Crump

Either Charlie Brooker has run out of ideas, or pop culture has finally eclipsed "Black Mirror," his technophobic-cum-miserabilist science fiction series that just dropped its seventh season on Netflix. After a decade and a half spent giving Luddites nightmares about the many ways our gadgets, gizmos and gigabytes may betray us all, the show is at the edge of obsolescence; gimmickry only goes so far for so long, especially when drawn from the same sling bag of tricks.
"Black Mirror" reflects on itself

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Crump

Either Charlie Brooker has run out of ideas, or pop culture has finally eclipsed "Black Mirror," his technophobic-cum-miserabilist science fiction series that just dropped its seventh season on Netflix. After a decade and a half spent giving Luddites nightmares about the many ways our gadgets, gizmos and gigabytes may betray us all, the show is at the edge of obsolescence; gimmickry only goes so far for so long, especially when drawn from the same sling bag of tricks.
There’s Nothing Funny But Plenty of Good on Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ Death Hilarious

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Andy Crump

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. It’s fitting that an album warped around anxieties about aging, and concerns over nostalgia, sounds like it’s been resting uncomfortably beneath a sweat-stained mattress for the last 30 years.
"The Woman in the Yard" and the horror of getting what you asked for

3 weeks ago | salon.com | Andy Crump

Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin. Corralling the former is as easy as ignoring the scraping sounds echoing from the basement and bolting the door shut. Whatever you think about doing when you hear something go bump in the night, don’t. That’s a surefire strategy for surviving horror, or at least outlasting everyone else. Malcontentment is another matter.
"The Woman in the Yard" and the horror of getting what you asked for

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Crump

The following article contains spoilers for "The Woman in the Yard"Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin. Corralling the former is as easy as ignoring the scraping sounds echoing from the basement and bolting the door shut. Whatever you think about doing when you hear something go bump in the night, don’t.
'A Working Man' Tests Jason Statham's Strength and Longevity

3 weeks ago | menshealth.com | Andy Crump

SPOILER ALERT FOR A Working Man: Jason Statham plays an unassuming blue collar type who is actually an elite soldier compelled by his moral code to protect the defenseless against the criminal element.
34 Years Later, A Surreal Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Thriller Just Got a Huge Upgrade

4 weeks ago | inverse.com | Andy Crump

Blu-rayWhat's for dinner? by Andy CrumpConstellation/Ugc/Hachette Premiere/Kobal/ShutterstockWealth and status are relative. In one corner, you have extreme cases, like Elon Musk; in the other, you’ve got workaday ones, like Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), the landlord of a crumbling tenement building and the antagonist of Jean-Pierre Jeunte’s 1991 dystopian black comedy, Delicatessen.