Category: Reviews

Music for the 2020s: Nass Recommends DECIDE by Djo

Discover Joe Keery’s new album that encapsulates the absurdity, anxieties, and joys of Gen Z.

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Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.

In cheerful defense of shortcuts.

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Nass Recommends: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

A look at the Nobel laureate’s newest work.

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What Immersive Projector Experiences Mean for Art

Revolutionary or rip-off?

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I Want You Flat on Your Back, And Then I Want You Strong Again: A Different Phantom Thread

“These are Alma’s and the film’s first words. A cynic will scoff, but no, give a serious thought to this idea. How many of us have the courage to dream – how many of us have the courage to dispense with cynicism and see our dreams come true?”

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Weezer’s Summery Return

Having traded their 90s-style distortion and macho guitar riffs for piano and sad-boy vulnerability, Weezer is certainly stepping in a new direction.

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Of Matt(yboys) & Moon(thels)

Is it Matt or Matthew?”

Nearly all my life, I have faced this question. More than a courtesy, it is a challenge, a demand: “Identify yourself.”

In my childhood, I was lost and unsure. Who am I? Am I that guy who carelessly shortens his name, soiling the greatest gift, after life, his parents have given him? Or am I that guy who insists on being called by his proper name, like some pompous Alexander or Maximilian?

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The Setlist (2)

A review of Brokeback’s “Illinois River Valley Blues” and Hand Habits’s “Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)”

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Nass Recommends Dining Hall Snack Hacks

A member of the Nass gets creative with Princeton’s Covid-era dining hall food.

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The Things We Do for Love

It is not often I get to encounter a fellow Dayton, so when I heard about a new documentary called Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde, I was suitably intrigued. The film was to be screened on Saturday, February 8 at the Princeton Public Library, as part of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival (PEFF).

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Liking Love

The first few episodes feature some pretty conventional plot devices, but the characterization and dialogue have a loose, awkward, and very human quality to them.

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On Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

A review of the latest Sasha Baron Cohen comedy.

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