Paisley Overground: Prince’s Best Pop Record in a Decade Is Hiding on Tidal
When he is an old man he will wear purple, or he won’t, and he will waste not one second of thought on the question of what it is we want from him. But until then, Prince Rogers Nelson, the Joyce Carol...
View Article‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: ‘The Overnight’ and ’80s Songs
Alex and Wesley saw some movies, but not the same ones. Plus Pitchfork’s 200 Best Songs of the 1980s and the generational nature of canon-making....
View ArticleA Rainbow Rejection: How ‘The Muppets’ Gets Everything Wrong About the Muppets
The most fanciful thing about ABC’s muppetational but seldom celebrational The Muppets is that the late-night talk show behind whose scenes it takes place has a female host. In this regard, I support...
View Article‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: The Emmys, ‘The Overnight,’ and Ryan...
This week, on their second-to-last show, Alex and Wesley talk about Sunday’s Emmy Awards broadcast and mention how the best part might have been an ad for a piece of music software. Wesley finally...
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Kook Skywalker: ‘The Walk’ Takes Viewers Through the Wire
In Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, a shaggy Dumb & Dumber wig blocks most of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s distinctive forehead and all of his access to irony. As the French aerialist Philippe Petit, who...
View Article‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: The Final Episode
In the series finale of Do You Like Prince Movies?, Alex and Wesley make their last stand against the forces of darkness — and one of them isn’t coming back....
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The Light Stuff: Ridley Scott’s Fun, Remote ‘The Martian’
At times The Martian feels like Ridley Scott’s apology to anyone still annoyed by the degree to which Prometheus hinged on ostensibly brilliant scientists making fatally dumb-ass choices. It’s a brisk,...
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Hard to Be a God: ‘Steve Jobs’ Thinks Different About Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is dead, to begin with — there is no doubt whatsoever about that. Maybe this was what emboldened screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle to take the liberties they do in Steve...
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Witch, Please: Vin Diesel’s ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Is Both Supremely Nerdy...
In 2002’s xXx, Vin Diesel’s extreme athlete turned superspy alter ego Xander Cage had the word MELKOR tattooed across his lower abdomen. Melkor was the name of a Lucifer-like fallen-angel figure in...
View ArticleBrand Echh: Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton Can’t Save the Lame ‘Our...
If you look at it as another sincere and affectionate cover-band take on a popcorn genre from director David Gordon Green, Our Brand Is Crisis almost makes sense. Pineapple Express was Green’s “’80s...
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