Following an ‘incident’ at an isolated lab, a risk management consultant (played by Kate Mara) working for a shady corporation is being sent in to evaluate the situation. The incident involves a humanoid being called Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), stabbing one of her creators in the eye. All this is explained in the first couple of minutes through surveillance footage and a handy, information-packed voice-over.
Based on the first book of Ransom Riggs’ young adult novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is director Tim Burton’s latest Gothic-tinged movie. This one follows Jake Portman (an uninspired, wide-eyed Asa Butterfield), a kid living in Southern Florida who grew up with his grandfather’s fantastic tales about living in a home on a Welsh island during WWII with Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) and some… well, peculiar children.
When three twentysomething thieves (Jane Levy, Daniel Zovatto and Dylan Minnette) break into the house of an aging war veteran (played with gusto by Stephan Lang), it seems like an easy score. After all, the guy is blind so what is he going to do? Blink at them? Turns out the guy, who is supposedly keeping 300 grand stashed in his place, is not nearly as harmless as they thought he would be. Getting into the house was the easy part, getting out turns out to be a wholly different affair.
On his fifth album and first since 2014’s breakthrough album “HEAL”, Timothy Showalter is more rock ‘n roll than ever before.
The Bombpops have been making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles and San Diego punk scenes for nearly ten years now. Throughout those years, they released a 7" and two EPs. But it took them up until now to release their first full-length.
Following up on their debut EP from two years ago, Nashville’s Idle Bloom have now released their first full-length.
Mo Troper is back again! Barely a year after “Beloved”, the Portland powerpopper returns with a fresh batch of lo-fi tuneage. Well, not really new.
In case you hadn't noticed yet, Pulley is back! They released their first new album in twelve years late last year and "No Change In The Weather" comes with all the bells and whistles you would expect (and want) to hear on a Pulley album.
- by Nate Hennon
After a couple of EPs, SoCal’s The Bombpops have finally released their debut full-length, “Fear Of Missing Out” (out now via Fat Wreck). Snooze on this one and you really will be missing out.
