Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is a digital publication based in the United States that offers reviews on a wide range of entertainment, including movies, music, television shows, DVDs, theater productions, and video games. Additionally, it includes interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The website also provides coverage of several film festivals, such as the New York Film Festival.

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Beth Gibbons Live at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles

5 days ago | slantmagazine.com | Paul Schrodt

There’s a strange dissonance between Beth Gibbons’s shy physical presence and that voice—enormous and unignorable. At the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles last night, the Portishead singer held back from the glare of the roughly 2,000-person audience, standing mid-stage and often shrouded in darkness while her six band members were bathed in light.
An Unusually Chaste Queer Melodrama

6 days ago | slantmagazine.com | Rocco Thompson

The American dream in all its slippery indefinability and spurious promise is the guiding light of Daniel Minihan’s On Swift Horses, based on the novel by Shannon Pufahl. In the tradition of The City and the Pillar, Giovanni’s Room, and The Price of Salt, the film looks at midcentury gay and lesbian life as a series of quotidian tragedies of compromise in the pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness.
"There Are Many Kinds of Death"

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

The marketing folk over at Sony are cheeky monkeys. When I saw the email this morning announcing the new trailer for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, I was greeted by the desiccated face of the man who, in the film’s first trailer, was mistakingly reported to be that of Cillian Murphy. Did Jim from 28 Days Later become infected by the Rage virus?
'Sands of Iwo Jima' 4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Kino Lorber

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Jordan Cronk |Ed Gonzalez

Allan Dwan was one of Hollywood’s most prolific directors, working from the silent era through the golden age of the studio system. The Toronto-born filmmaker made somewhere north of 400 films—many of them woefully obscure, unavailable, or lost—during his career, and in a variety of genres and registers.
A Promise of Elation

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

Winner of the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers, The Life of Chuck now has an official trailer.
A Brilliantly Staged, Subtext-Rich Vampire Movie

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Jake Cole

Set in 1930s Mississippi, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners pulls liberally from the folklore surrounding that period’s explosion of blues talent in the Delta area. Musicians of the time, crushed by the weight of Jim Crow and the Great Depression, generally plied their wares in juke joints, and the film centers on one such establishment newly acquired by identical twins Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan), dubbed the Smokestack Twins.
A Familiar Second Course

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Paul Attard

Purposely sloppy but brutally direct in his approach, Ken Carson pushes rage music to its most sonically extreme form. The 22 songs on the rapper’s fourth studio album, More Chaos, aren’t about anything in the traditional sense. They’re just hedonistic flexes of varying length, with Carson riding glitchy, glossy, and often poorly mixed beats packed with deafening, distorted bass.
Julien Baker & Torres ‘Send a Prayer My Way’ Review

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Jeremy Winograd

Both raised Southern Baptist, Julien Baker and Mackenzie Scott (a.k.a. Torres) have taken similar paths, breaking free of the conservative environs of their childhoods and becoming singer-songwriters acclaimed for their brawny guitar riffs and queer self-expression. But, it turns out, you just can’t take the South out of the coastal indie darlings. On Send a Prayer My Way, their first album as a duo, Baker and Scott reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on.
Andrew Ahn on 'The Wedding Banquet' and Queering Tradition

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Marshall Shaffer

When filmmaker Andrew Ahn was eight, his mother rented Ang Lee’s 1993 film The Wedding Banquet from a video store owing to its status as an Asian film that white people were interested in. Unbeknownst to them, the titular wedding is but a front for a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant to get his green card and remain in America. The moment, something akin to an origin story, was also an awakening for a filmmaker who’d take particular interest in depicting the gay Asian-American experience on screen.
David Cronenberg on Channeling Grief Into 'The Shrouds'

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Marshall Shaffer

“I’ve been coming to New York since the 1940s,” David Cronenberg reminisced when introducing The Shrouds at the New York Film Festival last fall. “Yes,” he quipped, “that means I’m the exact same age as Joe Biden.” Unlike the 46th president, however, the pioneer of body horror is showing no signs of losing a step. Following the longest hiatus of his half-century career, Cronenberg has emerged with a mournful and masterful one-two punch in the 2020s.