Malcolm McLaren, the promoter and manager responsible for assembling the world’s first boy band — The Sex Pistols — has died at age 64. We [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]