The Virginia Quarterly Review hosted its first-ever writers’ conference last week, a four-day retreat at the Boar’s...

The Morning Birds Bloom/Funky Island House Releases based around a song, a theme, or a tribute are generally boring,...

Get On Up is the best possible film of an inherently mediocre genre: the biopic. Most biopics render themselves...

Begin Again  Music from and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture/222 Records John Carney, who gave us the classic...

It may seem nitpicky in this era of movies about radioactive spider bites and ancient alien stud-gods to take issue...

Anyone who has been to an underground or independent film festival is no doubt familiar with a very specific genre of...

Confession time: My favorite movie of all time is the original 1968 Planet of the Apes, and it breaks my heart that...

Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy/ATO Records Remedy is the latest proof that Old Crow Medicine show is incapable of...

A lack of new ideas and a surplus of sincerity are not typically good qualities in a comedy. Just think of how forced...

Linkin Park The Hunting Party/Warner Bros. Somewhere along the way, the band Linkin Park became viewed as a formulaic...