Search results for: “hidden gems”
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Biopics have become a key genre of mainstream cinema in recent years, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman and The Dirt. Audiences have come to love tales of those who have achieved legendary status through their work, those who have dealt with hardships of the worst nightmares yet risen back, and finally those who will never…
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Thankfully, after years of being one of the most harshly overlooked directors of all time, Kelly Reichardt’s dedication at the end of her recent feature First Cow to Peter B. Hutton brought some attention to his work. Hutton’s passing in 2016 was a shake to the very foundations of modern experimental cinema (particularly in America)…
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Reece Beckett brings attention to Jay Electronica’s “statement of intent”.
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An ignored 1972 film gets some love from Reece Beckett.
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Reece Beckett adds to the Hidden Gems series with Poorboy, the unique underground record from Medslaus.
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Admittedly, it may be a little too soon to call a film only released last year a hidden gem as it hasn’t had long to find its audience. But given the slow response time to Khalik Allah’s work overall, now picking up thanks to his work on recent music videos for Solange and Nas, it…
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King Krule’s only record released under his own name is a “moody masterwork”, Reece Beckett says.
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Reece Beckett shows some love for one of The Roots’ most overlooked records.
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Reece Beckett runs a magnifying glass over an under-appreciated film from an under-appreciated director.
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While the anticipation of Nomadland (2021) winning the next Best Picture brews — a film that sidetracks the artificial compulsion to captivate the audience’s attention by complex narratives, and recedes to postmodern realism in emphasis of the beautiful sceneries surrounding the characters — I intuitively recall a similar film written and directed by Jeff Nichols…
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*TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from…
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It seems that, recently, James Baldwin and his work have had something of a renaissance, thanks to two films that came from his written work. The first of those was I Am Not Your N*gro, a documentary based on Baldwin’s unfinished final novel directed by Raoul Peck, and the second was Barry Jenkins’ highly anticipated…
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The Sounds are an epic Swedish new wave band that formed in 1998, with Living in America being their debut English-language album. Despite being released in 2002, the album feels completely unique and brand new; there’s a rawness in this record, being told through a multitude of different genres. It’s hard to tie this down…
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Continuing with our hidden gems series, Max Williams rediscovers Lindsay Anderson’s eccentric black comedy from 1982.