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Having started out as darlings of the interesting-but-kinda-tiny British Blues scene, Fleetwood Mac morphed their sound over a period of years. When they hit their stride,…

Use Your Illusion-era Guns N’ Roses is sometimes invoked as a shorthand for absurd rock excess, financial, chemical and musical. Most of those charges stick, sure,…

This story contains spoilers for the best M. Night Shyamalan movies.What a difference a decade can make. Ten years ago this fall, one-time Spielberg heir apparent…

15. “Wild Wild Life” (1986)An uncomplicated rock song with typically atypical lyrics (“I’m wearing fur pajamas/I ride a hot potato”), the lead single to Byrne’s excellent…

Picking up nine years after the events of Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater’s film reunites Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) for a talk-and-walk stroll through…

The opening twenty minutes of There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s operatic portrait of a ruthless oil tycoon (Daniel Day-Lewis) who ascends to power and…

The near-perfect “Just Like Heaven” should really begin the album, given it’s an absolute engine-starter of a song whose melodic spiral you could follow down into…

Can you believe that for a little while it was considered kinda cool to hate on Titanic? To talk about how L.A. Confidential was the Goodfellas…

In a very The 1975-ish bit of meta self-reference, I’ll be honest: when I volunteered to write this piece it was mostly to point out that…

The Big Bang of the zombie movie, and the beginning a renaissance for the American horror film. A group of Pittsburgh television and commercial production people—writer/director…