I’ll punch holes in the eyes of god. I was feeling mellow a while ago, but that’s changed. I’m gnawing on the jaw of a crystalline skull. Blood bursts in my temples. There are no kill switches or safety valves in this experience. Different highs are manifested depending on which part of the skull is [...]

Karbo Vantas Entertainment
92 min., dir. by Nacho Vigalondo, with Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, and Bárbara Goenaga
Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes) is a Spanish science fiction film which operates on an unthinkably low budget, relying instead on a tight script rather than flashy effects. Like all good sci-fi, Timecrimes puts its main character in tough ethical situations. Hector [...]

Mirage Enterprises
124 min., dir. by Stephen Daldry, with Kate Winslet, Jeanette Hain, and Ralph Fiennes
As an Oscar contender, The Reader couldn’t have been more of a long-shot. It tells the tale of a young man (played by David Kross in his youth and Ralph Fiennes in middle age) who becomes involved with a mysterious older [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #22
Kevin O’Rourke is part of a new generation of Motor City artists. This low-key powerhouse fuses elements of graphic design and advertising verve into frenetic rock art that’s cool as liquid nitrogen. He recently produced both the movie poster and onscreen credits for It Came From Detroit, a film about [...]

Miramax
105 min., dir. by Christian Vlockman with Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, and Catherine McCormack
Renaissance is a French animated film, set in Paris, 2054. It follows the efforts of a police captain named Barthélémy Karas (Daniel Craig; all voice credits are from the English version) as he tries to locate a missing 22-year-old genetic engineer named [...]

IFC Films 94 min., dir. by Bent Hamer, with Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, and Marisa Tomei
Factotum (based on the novel by Charles Bukowski) tells the story of a man who can’t find a job he likes, but lives instead for his true ambitions of drinking and writing. The film opens with Henry Chinaski (Matt Dillon) [...]

Asobi Seksu is one of many bands who are recreating the distorted ambient sound popularized in the early 1990s. Heavy rhythms overlaid with vocals both ethereal and frenetic give Citrus a huge sound that Phil Spector might approve of. Conversely, their few minimalist tracks tend to work the best, due in part to the smart [...]