The Welterweight

When the Wighnomy Brothers announced that they were disbanding their oft-celebrated project in late 2009, the disappointment was palpable. Yet Robag Wruhme (a.k.a. Gabor Schablitzki) quickly…

This week, BFI Southbank in London is spotlighting Spanish cinema of the past three and a half decades with its new series Good Morning Freedom! Spanish Cinema After Franco, highlighting…

Lots of activity in the upper and lower ends of the sonic spectrum, deeper and darker and brighter and bolder and additive and subtractive in the mental realms.Yateveo’s first release…

“An unqualified triumph” is how DVD Movie Central’s Michael Jacobson describes The Great Dictator, out now on Criterion DVD and Blu-ray. He goes on to explain, “The Great Dictator is a landmark…

Lulu is infiltrating the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, featuring Melanie Griffith as a funky free spirit and Jeff Daniels as her initially unwilling…

New York’s reignited love affair with disco has been going strong for more than a decade now, and My Cousin Roy has been right in the thick of it. As head of the Wurst label, Roy has played a key…

A friend recently said, as we were listening to this album, “You have to be insane to make music like this… I feel like I’m crazy just listening to it!”. The line between genius and insanity is a…