Hank Williams looms large in country and general music iconography. But that presence was made, in part, posthumously. Williams famously died on New Year’s Day 1953 at age 29. The outpouring of sorrow and love from the fans he had steadily accrued from radio appearances and hit singles reached a…

I’m not going to lie, there was a while there where any mention of or excerpt from the Pitch Perfect movies really got on my nerves. There’s only so much exposure to theater kids you can take before it extinguishes your desire, if you had any to begin with, to…

As the 1950s progressed past its first few years, a slight divide in its musical culture was starting to emerge. Although it would still be a few more years until the rock and roll paradigm changed the face of popular music, louder rumblings were competing against the lushly orchestrated pop…

Black Thought is one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the lead MC of The Roots, not so coincidentally one of the greatest hip hop groups of all time, Tariq Trotter has developed a flow that is often unrivaled in its fluidity, lyricism, and power. Backed by the…

Ari Aster seemed to come out of the gate with a huge horror success with HEREDITARY, sparking conversations about the place of “elevated horror” (I hate that term) in a film industry ever more reliant on blockbuster action and the mainstreaming of “indie” production through labels like A24. But Aster…

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley aren’t exactly the most famed writing-directing duo, but at least one half of the partnership is probably more familiar to you. Beginning his career as an actor, Daley first gained fame as Sam Weir in the incredible yet short-lived FREAKS AND GEEKS (1999–2000), but…

Fall Out Boy is one of those bands that now feels so divorced from their heyday, both in terms of sound and ubiquity. But I guess if you’re at the top of the charts for your respective genre, in FOB’s case emo and pop punk of course (until it wasn’t)…

The John Wick series of films has emerged as a refreshing counter in today’s action blockbuster space. While leaning more and more on the legendary, implausible world of a vast secret society of assassins, the movies have upped the ante of incredible, creative, and intense displays of violence…and they do…

Perhaps best known today for playing a character bearing many of his own traits in SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950), Erich von Stroheim has achieved in some circles a renown associated with one who had more to offer but was cut off too soon. But upon reaching Hollywood as a stuntman in…