Big Thief’s latest album since 2022’s sprawling indie-folk magnum opus Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, makes no attempt to replicate that expansive approach. Instead, Double Infinity emerges as their most sonically and compositionally cohesive work yet. The …read more
The Dynasty Warriors series has never been subtle. For years it has been about mowing down armies the way most games let you mow the lawn, and Origins doesn’t try to dress that up. What it does do is attempt …read more
The longest running independent film company in the world, Troma Entertainment are bringing their most successful monster and mascot back to the big screen 41 years. “The Toxic Avenger” first earned cult status by immersing audiences from across the globe …read more
Sometimes a game comes along that feels like it’s been plucked out of nowhere, carrying itself with such confidence that you’d swear it was from a veteran studio. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is exactly that kind of surprise. A French-developed …read more
Primal Scream have always been difficult to pin down – which is saying something with the array of genres that music journalism feels the need to create. Primal Scream are a band who can swagger through Stones‑inspired rock one minute, …read more
Two decades after Anna and Tess’s freaky day, things are about to become even freakier, as Anna’s daughter and close enemy are all about to live a new, even crazier day. 22 years after the original that became a …read more
There are bands who mellow with age, and then there’s Skunk Anansie, who refuse to, managing to be perhaps the last vestige of actual ‘Britrock’ (NOT BRITPOP thank you Oasis). Their new album, The Painful Truth, continues that defiant streak. …read more
Blue Prince arrives like a soft whisper you don’t expect to carry weight—or hours—only to find it hauls you into the labyrinthine depths of Mt. Holly’s puzzle-infested heart, and refuses to let go. Blue Prince is surprising, clever, and utterly compelling …read more
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is not Garbage reinventing themselves – but rather doubling down on what has always made them compelling: dark glamour, sharp hooks, and that uneasy blend of grit and polish. There is something …read more
Just when you think you’ve seen it all in horror, here comes a film in which the trailer shows you an extreme closeup of two people, face to face, their eyelids fusing together by the lashes. That brief image was …read more
