


Commerce in Shall
If Inside Scientology was not enough for you, perhaps you’re up for Going Clear. If your interest in this dubious subject is only ignited further, then the Master is now available to own. If this subject makes you anxious, read up instead on wine, wealth, sports, and the end of the world. With thirty-seven days […]

Of Scoring and Record Making – 2012 in Film Music
There’s an argument to be made against releasing and listening to a film score as an album. Separate from its whole, certain nuances can be lost along with its narrative contrivance. Certain films live and die by the combinatorial arrangement of images and sound, and it is in the delicate balance between the pieces that many […]

The Master of All Things: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, there is no talk of higher powers, no lingering on words handed down by deities. The religious leader here is “a man—a hopelessly inquisitive man,” Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and his followers are those who have strayed from the path. Strays are guided back through time […]