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Looking for work can be brutal, but in Park Chan-wook’s latest, it’s downright lethal. The South Korean auteur behind “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” returns with “No Other Choice,” a pitch-black satire that imagines a job market where eliminating the competition is not just metaphorical. Set to hit cinemas on January […]
Björk is once again bending the frame of what a “release” can be. The Icelandic icon is quietly assembling new music for a forthcoming studio album, her first since “Fossora” (2022), and she’s choosing a museum, not a stage or streaming platform, to introduce it to the world. The National […]
A24 is polishing its altar again, this time for “Mother Mary,“ David Lowery’s upcoming psychological drama-thriller set to crash into theaters in April 2026. Forget the soft-focus mythmaking of “A Ghost Story,” Lowery seems finally ready to sink his teeth into something juicier, weirder, and possibly occult as hell. Front […]
In June 2025, Moscow-based photographer Ilya Fomin journeyed to Merzhanovo, a secluded corner of Russia’s Rostov Oblast, to create a new series that reads as a visual poem. Nestled near the Sea of Azov, Merzhanovo’s quiet fields, traditional rural rhythms, and untouched landscapes form the perfect crucible for Fomin’s explorations […]
A new era of cinematic ambition takes shape in Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” a film poised to redefine what it means to dream on screen. Following his hypnotic explorations in “Kaili Blues” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,“ the Chinese auteur returns with an anthology that blurs the line between reality […]
Martin Amis returns to the Thames Estuary with “Reverie,“ a new photobook that feels less like a publication and more like a field report smuggled out of a dream. The project extends the quiet pulse of his earlier “This Land,“ yet the atmosphere here is heavier, more haunted, as if […]
An album sometimes arrives like a stranger at dusk, carrying on its shoulders the damp scent of withered leaves and the hush of a forgotten room. “Late Autumn Lullaby,” the latest dark-ambient offering from Mourneress, seems to step from precisely such a twilight doorway, one leading into a world where […]
There’s something deeply unsettling in the way duality breathes through Mara and Samatha, two faces of the same cosmic being, the same trembling soul of Belgian composer Gert Stockmans. On November 21st, the artist unveils a two-track offering that feels less like a release and more like a ritual incision, […]
Some songs feel as if they step quietly out of the dusk, carrying with them the temperature of the days that forged them. ‘So Arbitrary,’ the newest offering from Kadjavsi, belongs to the latter, an intimate autumn confession breathed onto the window glass of a high-rise room, the kind where […]
Rising star Myles Lloyd unveils “I’m Still Thinking,” his highly anticipated new album that cements his place as one of R&B’s most compelling new voices. The project marks a major milestone for the Montreal singer and songwriter, expanding on the emotional depth and sleek, modern production that have earned him a fast-growing […]