When Zodiac came out in the spring of 2007, I had grown very fatigued with the trends of the time for forensic procedurals and entertainm...

In the fall of 2006, I struggled through the last year of my twenties trying to balance the demands of graduate school and the collapse of...

Why does this movie have a reflective hold on my mind and soul? It is flawed and dated, and yet, the underlying theme of a confused man’s ...

When Leon Russell recorded this massive 3 LP (or 2 CD) set in 1972, it seemed like he was riding a never-cresting wave of popularity and h...

William: “It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.” Recently I found myself watching a much-...

Orchestra Baobab formed in 1970 out of the ashes of the legendary Star Band in Dakar, Senegal’s capital city. Singers Balla Sidibe, Rudy G...

A film by Yasujirō Ozu is not like a film by any other filmmaker. He has one of the most unique and easily identifiable stylistic signatur...

The 1990’s were kind of a magical time for me, in retrospect. I started junior high, high school and college in the 90s. I had my first st...

One of my dad’s favorite movies when I was growing up was 48 Hrs . He loved it and I would often hear him quote lines from it to his buddi...

Over the years as I have worked on and off at independent record stores, I’ve tried my best to learn more about music from my co-workers. ...

As a kid, I was drawn to science fiction like a moth to a flame. Star Wars premiered the same month I was born and my favorite after scho...

After the multi-colored explosion of counter-culture and youth exaltation that took place in mid to late 1960’s America, there was a desir...

Two movies, 55 years apart, and yet they are the bookends of the cinema vampire phenomenon. F.W. Murnau’s 1922 “Symphony Of Horror” set th...