Today marks the release of Elysium, Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to his well regarded epic District 9. A lot is riding on this film not only for Blomkamp, but for heavily inspired original creations in film as they fall further and further down the rabbit hole of consideration. So for those who have been anxiously waiting […]
The soda cost fifty cents. But the machine dispersed whatever flavor it wanted no matter the selection. In Duane’s dreams he was an air force pilot. He was never really sure why an air force pilot. Nothing came to mind that allowed recounting. But it was the air force. He wanted to be in the air. […]
This week is all Elysium all the time. Ryan Amon‘s score for the film is released today in the lead up to the Friday August 9th release of the film. This is Neill Blomkamp’s follow up to District 9, which offers its own pressures, but he also rested the musical powers in the hands of someone whose […]
In 2011, Jeff Mangum, of Neutral Milk Hotel fame, started releasing radio broadcasts online. Playlists of sorts, programming as one would not hear; only two such groupings were ever released, but they offer insight and context for one of the most ambitious and absent creatives of the modern era. Now that NMH is touring and the ever-distant is […]
In the early nineties, when shows like Twin Peaks and The X Files reconsidered the use of music and sound for narrative storytelling, the approach was an anomaly. Rarely was this distinctly cinematic element appropriated for the lesser art that was TV, but there it lay, making stories the better for it. Now, some twenty years later, […]
