Under the Radar

My first introduction to Leonard Cohen was via the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume , in which Christian Slater plays high school student and pirate radio DJ Mark Hunter (aka “Happy Harry Hard-on”). One of the most prominent songs in the film was Cohen’s

Mere days before he left us, David Bowie released Blackstar, and for one long weekend it played endlessly on loops, throngs of Bowie fanatics scratching their heads at the album’s mystical lyrics and otherworldly themes. His death pulled back the cur

What scary movie did you see way too young as a child, how’d you end up seeing it, and does it still scare you now? I remember seeing and being scared by The Prodigy’s “Firestarter” video when I was like 10 and assuming that it was Marilyn Manson, be

From Thomas Bulfinch to Edith Hamilton to the d’Aulaires, there have been many successful endeavors over the last century or so to bring ancient Greek mythology out from the stuffy realm of academia and into the layperson’s hands. You can now add to

Fox’s first reboot of 24 , 2014’s Live Another Day , was a success because it really was that: a reboot, with a shortened season, a relocation to England, and a good blend of old (including Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer) and new—actually new, rather

Young Conor’s mother is dying. Bullied at school, haunted by nightmares, and watching his mom grow weaker before his eyes, the boy withdraws deeper into the protective world of his drawings. After the strike of midnight, a monster calls at his bedroo