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Music Review: The Lumineers: New album narrative-style, powerful, insightful
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- October 21, 2019
Photo courtesy of Flickr Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 (yes, Friday the thirteenth), The Lumineers released their third studio album, aptly titled “III.” The narrative-style album presents the effects of addiction on members of the imaginary Sparks family. It’s beautiful, tragic and evocative, but we’d expect nothing less from the group that gave us “Sleep on
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Music review: Lord Huron: A nostalgic, haunting sound for listeners
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- September 5, 2019
During one particularly peaceful summer night this past July, I spent a few hours sitting in my overgrown backyard with nothing but a drink, my bluetooth speaker and my own thoughts. This is one of my favorite hobbies, as well as one of my least productive. Sometimes, you just have to drift through time, carried
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Movie Review: “Fantastic Beasts”: “The Crimes of Grindelwald” only kind of fantastic
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- December 6, 2018
Written by: Stephen Wallen The Wizarding World becomes even more thorough in J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” In this 10th cinematic adaption of the Harry Potter franchise (second in the Fantastic Beasts series), seasoned director David Yates brings to life a Gatsby-esque magical 1920s world that begs its viewers to take a
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Music Review: half•alive: High-energy, yet still introspective
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- December 6, 2018
The best bands are the ones that seem to pop up out of nowhere. “half•alive” did just that. Well, more specifically, the group popped up out of Long Beach, California in 2016. Songwriter Josh Taylor and drummer Brett Kramer just released an EP of three songs and a single with a fantastic music video. Is
READ MOREMovie Review: Beautiful Boy: Emotional film about drug addiction
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- November 16, 2018
Everything. It’s what all good parents want to do for and give to their children to help them succeed in life. It also demonstrates that their undying love will prevail, even through the most dire of circumstances. This is a sentiment reflected but also put to the ultimate test in “Beautiful Boy,” directed by Felix
READ MOREMovie Review: Hugo: A golden film that deserves to become classic
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- November 8, 2018
IT’S BEEN A WHILE!” Those are the only words of that song that I know. Thankfully that song exists on another plane where it’s normal not to know all the words and weird if you do. If you do know all words, I don’t think you’re weird. I consider you positively unique. In my opinion,
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Music Review: Hozier: Long-dormant musician delivers hits
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- November 8, 2018
The music world has been waiting for Andrew Hozier-Byrne, more commonly known as simply “Hozier,” to release music for quite a while, to the point that fans on Twitter have been “at”-ing the artist directly to encourage the release of music. Recently, Hozier delivered a bit of a teaser, an extended play (EP) of four
READ MOREMovie Review: Halloween (2018): This film frazzles instead of frightens
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- October 25, 2018
A rather meager budget of $300,000. Making summer in southern California look like autumn in the Midwest. A simple music score involving the repetition of a few notes. An opening sequence which would make brilliant use of a new kind of camera. Most importantly, an altered William Shatner “Star Trek” mask, conveying the blank stare
READ MOREMovie Review: Peppermint: This movie is more stale than sweet
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- October 11, 2018
I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you.” These simple words may be one of the most popular film quotes forever ingrained into our lexicon and into the psyches of filmgoers from the recent past. Convincing. Intense. Fear-inducing. The jump-off point of Liam Neeson’s desperate search for his kidnapped
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