It would be absurd to isolate any one sequence to stand for all of Martin Scorsese’s filmography, but the first meeting between Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in The Departed (2006) is surely am...

On the cover: Fire-Toolz : Prolific producer and musician Angel Marcloid’s colourful world-building and genre collisions open portals to new dimensions. By Emily Bick; Franck Vigroux : The French mu...

After an insult to a society lady in 1900s Miami, idealistic schoolteacher Walt Murdock (a fresh-faced Christopher Plummer) is drafted as an Audubon game warden and charged with enforcing Florida’s hu...

In our particulate-dense media environment, a decade-plus silence takes on the weight of a gesture in its own right—an invitation to focus, to stay awhile. Structurally, Inferno is less interested in ...

Extremely abbreviated reviews

Would you break a strike for art’s sake? At the risk of letting the wolf of reaction in the door, the question becomes irrepressible at the climax of Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987), Howard Br...

Politics Podcast · YellowParenti

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

In 1966, in the throes of an uprising at the University of Strasbourg, a student named André Bertrand plastered the campus with a work of propaganda whose telltale clash of text and photo proclaimed t...

On a new biography of cult cinema’s patron saint.

Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.

Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.

A rapid response to Zohran Mamdani's momentous victory, and how the Left might prepare for the fight ahead

When it comes to Stereolab, the fact that nobody else can make music quite like them should be justification enough for their return. Instant Holograms on Metal Film is a record for the faithful: stat...

By 1978, the New Hollywood revolution was cooling into its brushed aluminum entertainment phase. For some of the so-called “Movie Brats,” this transition would cement their fortune, and leave others i...

Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them

In August 1991, in the throes of a tightening political and economic downward spiral, the KGB made one final attempt to save the Soviet Union. News of the infamous “dacha coup” reached Sonic Youth on ...