As the opening film in Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection , Jaws feels less like the first chapter of a career retrospective and more like a detonation. Before the aliens, before the dinosaurs...

The best thing about Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection is that it reminds you how restless he was as a filmmaker. One movie terrifies you. The next one breaks your heart. Then he turns around...

After what feels like an eternity of delays, The Everlasting Shadows finally arrives, and the biggest surprise is how comfortable it sounds in its own skin. Many veteran melodic death metal bands retu...

We may be witnessing a biblical prophecy come true--the beasts will reign over the earth.” While usually small and parasitic in their annoyances, bugs are a BIG problem for many people. From flies to...

Last night, long after I should have gone to bed, I found myself sitting alone with a half-finished bottle of Cabernet and Chet Baker 's Chet spinning quietly through the room. There are albums you li...

The wait is finally over for fans of cult filmmaker Joe Dante ’s The ‘Burbs . Shout! Studios has brought the cult classic to 4K Ultra HD, featuring a brand-new restoration approved by Joe Dante . For...

Three songs. No intro. No ambient filler. No cinematic bullshit. Just twenty-first-century tech-death launched directly into your frontal lobe like a railgun round...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! …Unless you’re traveling through LAX on Christmas Eve when a team of military contractors are planning on releasing a bioweapon that can kill thousands, then,...

I’ve replayed Ingested ’s Denigration an unhealthy amount of times now, and I genuinely can’t tell how much of this album is “actually incredible” and how much is me hearing the sound of a band trying...

Doodswens just dropped the best black metal record of the year and it’s not even fucking close to being sideswapped. This wild creature of raw Dutch black metal bleeds at extreme volumes throughout al...

Most horror films ask the audience to suspend disbelief. A Blind Bargain asks them to trust a man who clearly shouldn't be trusted, and that's where the fun starts...

When The Inner Mounting Flame hit in 1971, it didn’t really sound like a jazz record anymore. Or a rock record, either. The Mahavishnu Orchestra took pieces of both, wired them together, and sent the...

Echoes is the second full-length from Ethereal Darkness , a melodic death/doom metal band from Belgium. Six tracks. Just over an hour. Atmospheric melodic death/doom buried under grief, exhaustion, lo...

By 1991, Kevin Costner wasn't riding a hot streak. He was THE Hot Streak. The man was untouchable. Bull Durham . The Untouchables . Field of Dreams . Dances with Wolves . Hit after hit after hit. In a...

Slaughterday’s Dread Emperor sounds less like a new release and more like something somebody accidentally unearthed from a flooded basement rehearsal room in 1992. The whole album has this...