Drew unleashes a typically diverse best-of 2012 list, featuring everyone from fun. and Miguel to Regina Spektor. Oh yeah, Kendrick Lamar is here too!!
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“Santa Baby”: The Jukebox From Hell 13
“Santa Baby” has become a standard over the years. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a shitty song, though.
2012 Christmas Album Roundup: Spin Cycle
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Once again, Popblerd listens to this year’s Christmas albums so you don’t have to! This year brings us music from Cee-Lo, Sufjan Stevens, and many others.
The Viewfinder: Soul Khan, “Not Like That”
Brooklyn rapper Soul Khan’s latest attacks misogyny, and you can dance to it. “Not Like That” sounds like a win to us – check the video here!
Spin Cycle: The Coup, Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley is just as pissed off as ever on “Sorry to Bother You”. Check out our review.
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 31: Halloween
Well, was anybody shocked? Remember, when I was setting up this series — back with Day 1’s write-up of May — I warned you that the actual holiday’s corresponding movie was going to be a predictable choice. Given that John Carpenter’s Halloween a.) shares a name with the holiday, b.) is set on the holiday in question, and c.) is the greatest horror movie of all time… well, if you’re shocked by this, you may be quite dumb. Regardless, I […]
Spin Cycle: Taylor Swift, Red
The patron saint of heartbroken tweens returns with – comparatively – her most adult album yet, “Red”. Popblerd has the review!
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 30: Trick ‘r Treat
There are a lot of great horror movies out there. I mean, I wouldn’t be writing this series if I didn’t legitimately believe that: but I believe in the simple, glorious pleasures of this genre enough to commit to writing a month-long daily series about its most shining examples. But let’s not get it twisted, folks, this here is a Halloween series. And there is a difference between a great horror movie and a great Halloween movie; Martyrs is a great […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 29: The House of the Devil
Ti West’s The House of the Devil is a peculiar, unassuming little film. It’s an ’80s horror movie created in 2009, filmed with the unmistakable grit and style of the era, but without any of the bells and whistles and camp of its time; it’s a Hitchcock movie without the Master’s portly silhouette lurking, one that keenly understands that the key to true suspense is anticipation and buildup. It’s not pure homage and fetish, though; it’s also the inimitable product of […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 27-28: Tales From the Crypt & Creepshow
As the Halloween season draws to its glorious close, we revert to the well for the final weekend of the month: that’s right, we’re looking at more anthology films. Why, you ask? The answer is almost deceptively simple: because they’re awesome. And as I sit here writing this, fully aware that the impending hurricane currently stalking the east coast just may swipe this review right out of my hands, I’m keenly aware of what my wife and I are going […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 26: Ginger Snaps
The best teen werewolf movie ever made? Apologies to Michael J. Fox, but yeah — Ginger Snaps is rightfully revered as a modern genre classic. It’s hard to articulate why, since teen horror movies aimed at some sort of monster as a metaphor for puberty have become quite en vogue in Twilight‘s unstoppable wake, but I’m assuming it’s got something to do with the cheerful sense of darkness it throws around. (In the opening credits alone, Ginger Snaps throws around snapshots of […]
The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 25: The Nightmare Before Christmas
So here we are: the final week of the Halloween season. It’s almost bittersweet — and in this, our last seven days together, it’s time to bring the Halloween goodies fast and furious. We’re gonna get real scary over the next week, so before we do that, let’s take a breather and enjoy a Halloween flick for the whole family: Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. There’s nothing new about a film hitching something sinister to […]