When Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs was released in 1971, its gruesome, explicit exploration of violence and the true nature of man made it one of the most controversial films of its time.
16 years ago, Opeth exploded onto the death metal scene with a debut album,
A couple weeks ago, I was involved in a semi-serious car accident and my less-than-trusty Honda Civic was deemed, in claims adjustor parlance, a “total loss.”
As a college-age male (or female), you probably don’t associate imperatives like these—as quotidian as their components may be to you—with pianos, synthesizers and up-and-coming blonde bombshells.
Throughout Drive, his 2011 homage to everything from 1980’s LA noir to David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Refn subverts his standard moviegoer’s expectations: car chase scenes seem intentionally...
It’s difficult to discuss Girls without mentioning the backstory of frontman Christopher Owens. Raised by a single mother as a member of the extremist cult Children of God, Owens never spent a...
The Smiths are bona fide rock heroes to a certain class of music listener—Morrissey’s wry observations and oblique narratives served as the textbook for a generation of young songwriters better at...
The program for Glass, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s newest play, explains that it is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic mid-century drama The Glass Menagerie, with scenes from...
Like a multiracial student, St. Vincent would have trouble checking off her proper category on a SAT test.
After Gwyneth Paltrow, an Academy Award winning actress who has starred in over 40 films, is killed off by a mysterious virus in the opening minutes of Contagion, it becomes clear that the film is...
At Duke, and at colleges and universities nationwide, there seem to be more and more student-led discussions surrounding gender and its relation to power dynamics.
Sunday is the series finale of Entourage. I guess I should be excited about this—after all, I would objectively be considered a fan of the show.
If you’re reading this, and you don’t have a ticket to Hopscotch Music Festival this weekend, it’s probably too late.
Recess’ Brian Contratto interviewed Tobin Sprout via email.
In the entrance to the new exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art, Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, a giant paragraph on the wall defines its purpose: “[to] reject the common tendency...
An aesthetic reminiscent of In Bruges, a heavy dose of Irish nihilism and a finely balanced comedic tone black enough to make the Coen Brothers scream copyright infringement. All of these...
It’s a general rule of thumb that it takes around three months to shoot a feature film.
An ornate staircase spiraling through a room of marble. Women in retro, glamorous ‘50s-era bathing suits painted on boardwalks.
Halfway around the world, the new Shenzhen Stadium rumbled with a bass-backed remix of The Sound of Music’s “Do-Re-Mi” as 300 dancers cantered onto a whorl-shaped stage.
When “How Deep Is Your Love?” dropped earlier this summer, you would have been forgiven for prematurely penciling In the Grace of Your Love into the 2011 year-end lists.
