• Review: ‘boy’ is an ethereal recollection of nostalgia

    Sometimes I feel as if I grew up with 5 Seconds of Summer. It’s been my favorite band since “Voodoo Doll” in 2014 and I have seen each of the band’s New York tour stops since middle school with my twin sister. I even forced my father to drive to New Jersey in Friday rush This story Review: ‘boy’ is an ethereal recollection of nostalgia appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism Album Review

    Dua Lipa's star power sounds muffled on her much-anticipated third album,

  • Sugar Episode 5 Review – ‘Boy In the Corner’

    Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Apple TV+’s Sugar… Sugar’s fifth episode continues his investigation into Olivia’s disappearance, finding involvement from unexpected places. Initially, Sugar confronts David Siegel following his arrest at the end of the previous episode, David is clearly fixated on fame and its hard to discern fact from fiction. The episode […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post...

  • Three Quick-Hit Reviews of Local Albums

    Sudden Unknown Signal, Missy (OnlyBands, digital) Burlington alt-rockers Sudden Unknown Signal (sometimes known as SUS) carry the torch for '90s guitar rock, once the dominant force in the Queen City music scene. Gone are the days of the Pants, Wide Wail and Guppyboy, and the city needs some new blood. Enter the quartet of Stephen O'Brien (guitar and vocals), Tobias Yandow (drums), Raven Aoyagi (guitar) and Tim Woos (bass), who dropped their debut album, Missy, toward the end of 2023....

  • Movie Review – There’s Still Tomorrow (2023)

    There’s Still Tomorrow, 2023. Directed by Paola Cortellesi. Starring Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, and Vinicio Marchioni. SYNOPSIS: Trying to escape from the patriarchy in the Italian post-war society, Delia plots an act of rebellion against her violent husband. Italian Cinema has had its share of triumphs over the […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read...

  • ‘Born cool’ – why the varsity jacket is still leader of the pack

    Originally the preserve of Ivy League sportsmen, the jacket has seen incarnations from the likes of Salt-N-Pepa, Palace and Prada. And now Louis Vuitton’s NFT version is going for £7,000There are few items of clothing as iconic – or as purely American – as the classic varsity jacket. Yet, lately, it has been making a comeback, thanks in part to Italian powerhouse Prada, who featured a chic all-leather take on it at Milan fashion week in February. It has also been a central piece in much-hyped...

  • Santa Pola: A coastal gem brimming with history and natural beauty

    The sea has profoundly influenced the history of Santa Pola. Dating back to the 4th century BC, the Iberians constructed a walled enclosure to engage in trade with the Greeks of Phocaea. Later, the Romans developed Portus Illicitanus, a crucial Mediterranean port complete with a fish salting factory, warehouses, the Roman House of the Palm […]

  • A year later, Ashcraft delivers another gem for late grandma

    ARLINGTON -- It didn’t dawn on Reds starting pitcher Graham Ashcraft until he got on the bus and headed to Globe Life Field on Friday afternoon. April 26 is the same day he faced the Texas Rangers during the 2023 season, an emotional outing two days after his grandmother had

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    ‘Velma’ season 2 review: An improvement but still with an unlikeable lead

    Velma and her gang are back to solve another murder mystery.

  • Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

    The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caperStandup veteran Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut with this decent family comedy that puts a surreal twist on the history of Pop-Tarts, one of the US’s most beloved snacks: the sheer goofiness and disposable pointlessness are entertaining.Seinfeld created the film with co-writers Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder, the same writing team that worked on Bee...

  • Beauty, filth, violence and death: why still life art is more subversive than you think

    Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clearStill life is the lowest form of art. So declared the French Academy when it established its Hierarchy of Genres in the 17th century. Historical scenes and portraiture were the noblest genres, whereas landscapes and still lifes were considered lowly. According to the art institute, biblical frescoes required a higher level of mastery; an inanimate fruit...

  • Music Review: Anitta welcomes listeners into her 'Funk Generation' on new album

    First, she took over Brazil. Now, the world. The trilingual Brazilian pop star Anitta has returned with a new album, the club-to-bedroom ready “Funk Generation.”