Arts and Entertainment

BY TYLER HENSON Don’t let his age fool you, Godzilla still has some fight left in him. Godzilla Minus Zero topped the big family movie release The Cat in the Hat over this weekend, an impressive feat for an R-rated monster movie and a 70+ year old franchise. This critic …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON For millennials and Zoomers, Miley Cyrus has been a constant presence in the pop mainstream for most of their lives. Twenty years in, she’s also become a rare child star turned solo artist who has undergone complete shifts in sound more than once and earned respect from …

BY TYLER HENSON Two of the best movies of the year are currently playing in theaters. Stop motion wonder Wildwood offers an emotionally powerful and visually resplendent fantasy adventure, and the innovative documentary You Can See Everything takes viewers on an absolutely engrossing journey into the kaleidoscopic world of Elizabeth …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON Rick Wakeman has explored Mars before, in 1971 playing piano on David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?,” and in 2020 making the trip himself with the instrumental album The Red Planet. Now, with Return to the Red Planet, he heads back, saying there was still much left to …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON What is it like after the lights come back on and the party is over? How does it feel to come home at 2:00 a.m. and catch yourself in the mirror? These questions are central to modern pop’s current movement. Today’s pop stars are in direct conversation …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON At 80 years old and 50 albums deep, Neil Young continues to sound inspired and sharp, but he’s also so, so tired. On Second Song, that weariness turns out to be the point. The last time we reviewed Young’s music was 2022’s World Record, an outing with …

BY TYLER HENSON Digger (129mins) Trailers for Digger would have us believe this film is a rollicking, larger than life comedy starring Tom Cruise, decked out in old age prosthetics and swaggering broadly with a Texas accent as the world collapses around him in environmental disaster. That is only partly …

BY TYLER HENSON It would normally be cause for surprise when a Tom Cruise movie opens as low as Digger, but Digger is no ordinary Tom Cruise movie. It’s been obvious for a while that this movie was going to be a tough sell. Now that this critic has seen …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON Melissa Auf der Maur hasn’t released any new music in the last 16 years, so it’s understandable you’d be surprised to see a new record come across your feed recently. Best known as the bassist for Hole and later a touring member of Smashing Pumpkins, she also …

BY XAVIER JOHNSON Eleven years. It’s been eleven long years since Alabama Shakes, the Grammy Award winning rock trio, has released a record. During that hiatus, vocalist Brittany Howard set off on a multi-Grammy nominated solo career of her own. With how active each member was musically, fans were left …