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Chelsea Girls

Eileen Myles

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In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a...

The Final Girls (2015)

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When Max and her friends reluctantly attend an anniversary screening of "Camp Bloodbath," the...

Chino Moreno recommended Saturdays=Youth by M83 in Music (curated)

Saturdays=Youth by M83

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"I've liked this band for a long time, and I think this is the best work. I love the sound, the programming he does, the synths he uses, but this record has great songs, he was able to craft these complete songs. The structures of them are really good, and the girl who sings on it, her voice is superb. The production is so big, and reminiscent of 80s music, so it is nostalgic for me, it takes me back to my youth. For just one dude to be making this it's pretty awesome. I've always been a fan of shoegaze, and when I first heard M83 I took it to my friends and said 'you've got to hear this, it's an electronic shoegaze band'."

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The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder

Nichi Hodgson

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'A new approach to romance...The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) in Movies

Mar 24, 2021

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is an absolute triumph of feel good comedy and an all out classic of late 80s cinema.

Between it's infectiously likable leads (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) and absolutely ridiculous travelling-through-history plot, Excellent Adventure is one of those films that can easily be enjoyed by an audience of all age groups. It's certainly of it's time when it comes to its soundtrack and avalanche of pop culture references, but over 30 years later this proves to be one of its many charms. (Apart from the unfortunate use of a homophobic slur that wouldn't fly by today's standards)

All in all, Excellent Adventure is a wonderful whole heap of fun that's become one of my ultimate comfort films. Most bodacious indeed.

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Bret Easton Ellis recommended The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in Movies (curated)

"I was tempted to replace this with Something Wild—along with Blue Velvet a key movie of the ’80s, when Demme was its finest mainstream director without a hit. But this is undeniably Demme’s greatest achievement—one of his only hits, and rumors persist that it was taken as a job. It contains maybe the most complexly realized heroine in a procedural and two of the most iconic performances in American movies. It seems Demme has been apologizing for its gore and violence ever since, but it’s a nearly perfect film while also a haunting reflection of the George H. W. Bush years in the same way The Coens’ No Country For Old Men seemed like a reflection of the waning years of his son’s presidency."

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Pete Thompson (4339 KP) rated Madame X by Madonna in Music

Oct 13, 2019

Madame X by Madonna

2019 | Experimental, Latin, Pop

6.1

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A couple of songs only for me (0 more)

Feels like trying too many different themes on 1 album not always a bad thing but didnt work for me. (0 more)

After winning this from Smashbomb and requested I review it so here goes.

I would not have purchased this album even though I do like some of Madonnas other works but they are mostly the 80s hits and some from the Frozen album.
I found 2 or 3 tracks ok to listen to with nice use of beats and piano in the songs. But over all I felt she was trying to cater to too many genres which sometimes works but for me on this occasion it didnt. A generous 5 out of 10 from me.