Tag: reviews
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Richard Gary’s Favorites and (Not Favorite) DIY Films for 2019
The Feedback Society’s resident expert on DIY movies (especially horror films), Richard Gary, walks us through his favourite (and not so favourite) films of 2019. I have an issue with “Best of” and “Worst of” year-end lists for the following reasons: most are chosen from either those that play in theaters. For me, I like…
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Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace is the long-awaited, resurrected footage of the Aretha Franklin album recording concert that led to one of the biggest gospel albums in history. Amazing Grace was a brilliant, live gospel album from The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who was trying something new, by returning to her roots. The album was recorded at…
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
In a summer stuffed with senseless sequels, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, from Joe Talbot and Jimmie Falls, feels like a cinematic vacation. Some things are universal regardless of the location you were raised, currently reside, or dream of moving to. If you’ve spent any real time in a place to the point…
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Panned Gold: Primal Scream – ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up’
In this instalment of Panned Gold, Kimmer takes a look at the much-maligned ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up,’ Primal Scream’s follow up to ‘Screamadelica.’ Panned Gold is our way of reminding music fans of the wealth we miss out on when we adhere to a critic or algorithm’s notion of ‘the best.’ Albums that…
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First Man
The director of Whiplash and La La Land, Damiel Chazelle, reteams with Ryan Gosling for First Man, the engrossing story of man’s first moon landing. Fresh off their hit La La Land, Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle have swiftly reunited to bring mankind’s reach for the moon to life. First Man puts you right…
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BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee is back with one of his best film in years, the sort of true story of Ron Stallworth and the Ku Klux Klan. The fascinating case of Detective Ron Stallworth in 1970s Colorado is no exception to the rule that truth is stranger than fiction. In this movie, the bones of Stallworth’s true…
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The Feedback Society’s Week in Music
Music we’re discussing this week at The Feedback Society, like Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Dean Ween, Hendrix, Insecure Men, and a Netflix movie about Roxanne Shante. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex and Food After their last record’s foray into polyamorous funk/pop, UMO are keeping it interesting with Sex and Food – their fourth album – with…
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Annihilation
Alex Garland (Ex Machina) is back with Annihilation, based on the book by Jeff VanderMeer. It has issues, but it work more than it doesn’t. Leaning hard into its heady ideas and cosmic aspirations, the new film Annihilation might look like Predator by way of G.I. Jane but it’s really far more subtle and introspective…
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Mom and Dad
Nicolas Cage goes full nuclear Cage in Mom and Dad, from the insane directors of the Crank series, a How Did This Get Made favourite. Mass violent hysteria turns parents against their children in Mom and Dad, a film with a forgettable title that falls way short of its bleakly comic ambitions. Starring Nicolas Cage…
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Stone Temple Pilots: Core’s 25th Anniversary
We take a deep down look at the often maligned debut album from Stone Temple Pilots, ‘Core,’ on the occasion of its 25th anniversary re-release. By the time Stone Temple Pilot’s [STP] ‘Core’ rolled around towards the end of 1992, America was in a cultural climate not too dissimilar from what they are in now,…