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1 Being John Malkovich (1999) John Cusack asked his agent for the “craziest, most unproduceable script you can find”, and the result was Spike Jonze’s feature-directing debut. Cusack, with the saddest hair imaginable, has a ball...
Brennan Wedl Pretty Little Fantasy Meeting at the snarling midpoint of Courtney Love and Lucinda Williams, the Minnesota native seethes at gender norms on this instant-classic grunge ripper. Ravyn Lenae Saturday Night In the sweet spot...
You were part of perhaps the richest and most exciting era of music since the German and Italian classics of the 19th century. How was it for you and what made it all tick? eamonmcc William Stevenson discovered me after I had won an amateur...
If there is ever a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for fictional bands, the likes of Spinal Tap and the Rutles will be guaranteed a place. Less certain is the fate of the duo created by Toronto college friends Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol in Nirvana...
Mahnaz Mohammadi is a survivor. The Iranian film-maker and women’s rights activist has been arrested on many occasions and imprisoned several times. In 2011, she was held for months in solitary confinement and tortured. In 2014, she was...
Suits. Gnomic poetry. Moody, insistent riffs. It used to be that you’d know what to expect from NYC rockers Interpol. The band’s first two albums, in the early 00s, were blockbuster successes, shifting half a million units each thanks to...
