In recent years, the global fashion industry has come under intense scrutiny for its noteworthy environmental footprint. The rapid expansion of fast fashion—a business model characterized by the swift turnover of cheap, trendy clothing—has resulted in alarming increases in textile waste, excessive water usage, and high levels of carbon emissions.
Hardcore rock, in most cases, follows a format: a longhaired guy death grips a microphone and scratchily howlers about snuff and betrayal to a group of other longhaired guys filled with so much wrath.
Voodoo Bloo, a New Zealand rock band, releases their 12-track sophomore effort, “The Blessed Ghost.” The Wellington-based Rock group is back with their most ambitious offering yet, following the success of their debut album “Jacobus” and a string of single releases that garnered plaudits in both hemispheres.
Boston-based rock group Horse Jumper of Love creates the type of music you may want to play in your hyperbaric chamber if you were there for an extended period and wanted to fully immerse yourself in the experience.
The best Marvel television series of the year finished its run on Disney+ last week without much fanfare. or at least not as much as one would hope). The hero saved her village and shared a tender moment with her family in the movie’s mid-credits scene, which of course teased a future movie tie-in. Overall, it was the ideal happy conclusion.
Fans of Family Guy will need something new to watch since the adult cartoon has wrapped up it’s 20th season, leaving a vacancy. Some people might want to switch completely to something different.
In his brilliant film “Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach compares divorce to death without a body. There has been a loss. Denial, rage, and grief are all present. The insidious nature of divorce and how two well-meaning individuals who still care about each other will do things they would never believe they would do are captured by Baumbach in his intimate and moving movie.
Analog arts have a certain mood that they exude. Particularly with film, there is frequently an element that is lost with digital. This is especially true of images from earlier eras that are captured in photography. The images of Akimitsu Takagi are the most accurate representation of this occurrence in Japanese tattooing.
Despite my admiration for him, there’s a director I’ve been actively reluctant to talk about for a long time. Michael Haneke his name, and his films are infamous for being unsettling to watch owing to their unusual style and treatment of challenging subjects. That’s why I kept my distance from him. But here we are, and that means I’ve re-watched the majority of Michael Haneke’s films twice to figure out what makes them so unnerving yet beautiful. So let’s get this party started.
Stephen King’s work concentrates on psychological terror, almost pushing us away from the jump scares and gore to present us with a world where we fear our own imaginations. Sure, there are times when we feel like we’re watching a conventional horror movie or are too terrified to turn the page of his novel, but more often than not, we’re caught in our own brains and the fear that resides within them.
Jamie Hewlett has transformed the look of the British comic book and music industries over the course of a career spanning more than two decades. At a time when strong female characters in superhero stories were scarce, he created Tank Girl. Along with Damon Albarn, he also employed the all-animated band Gorillaz to explore the possibilities of pop music. He later produced Monkey: Journey to the West, an operatic retelling of a 16th-century Chinese legend, refusing to fit into any preconceived categories.