And you thought Wes Anderson was twee. Stuart Murdoch, lead singer and songwriter for the just-as-good-as-ever master class in winsome pop known as Belle Sebastian, has a directorial debut on the way that promises to bury us all in whimsy. God Help the Girl, moreover, shares its name with a 2009 Murdoch album whose music [...]

There are pub crawls, there are babies’ first crawls, and now there are cupcake crawls. In a city with cupcake shops as ubiquitous as gay bars, and double-decker Sex and the City tour buses, it’s shocking that it’s taken so long to adopt a crawl devoted to the frosted, crumbly-on-a-bad-day, chocolate-filled-at-its-best treats. Alas, now it’s [...]

Absurd and brilliant auteur David Lynch has always been a man of ideas. In the past, he’s said that, “ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you’re dead.” And throughout his career, he has been completely unwavering to his own conception and theories of what a work of art should be. [...]

Matilda, the brand-new Broadway musical imported from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon (and later on London’s West End) and based on the Roald Dahl classic, has been buzzed about in New York for months, and last night’s opening night brought much praise from critics all over the country. Ben Brantley’s review in the New [...]

As someone who regularly spends her time performing one-woman Shakespearean plays in her bedroom, I can say that ne’er do I shy away from a good modern reworking of the classic texts. Joss Whedon’s upcoming Mucho Ado About Nothing is an absolute delight and pleasure, which I enjoyed every minute of. Give me a new [...]

Spring Break never really ends does it? Well, not for Harmony Korine’s film which continues to stir up headlines well into its theatrical release. And central to Korine’s Spring Breakers was Alien, the rapper/drug-dealer played by James Franco and although not a carbon copy of real-life(ish) rapper RiFF RaFF he was pretty close. When he [...]

Huw Stephens of Radio 1 said the music made by Hatty Taylor and Nigel Firth as the duo Vienna Ditto amounted to “Portishead doing a Tarantino soundtrack.” This should be all the motivation you need to stream Liar Liar, their debut EP, below. But just in case you need more to go on: the spare, desert-dry [...]

Peter Pan—and by extension Peter and the Starcatcher, its prologue in play form—is a story about changes. Or, at least, it is a story about changes insofar as it is a story about stasis. The notion of Peter, and what makes him endlessly fascinating, is his ability to stay the same forever. In doing so, [...]

Growing up, Cameron Crowe’s middle films were some of the first movies I remember falling in love with. Almost Famous, Jerry McGuire, and even Vanilla Sky have always held a remarkably fond place in my heart as wonderfully told narratives that showed me how cinema could really reach down deep and make me feel. But [...]

Stephen King’s anticipated (anticipated? sure) sequel to his 1977 horror novel The Shining hits bookstores… well, let’s be honest, it’s going to hit Amazon.com this September. Titled Doctor Sleep, the novel will follow grown-up Dan Torrence and his relationship with a psychic twelve-year-old girl. The novel’s Wikipedia page ensures that it’ll involve an epic battle [...]