Ricky Jay is probably the world’s greatest living magician. He is also a storyteller, historian, and writer, and it all gets tied together in this compendium of performers through the past four centuries: anatomical marvels, marvelous cheats, and maniacal farters.**It’s bizarre, sure, but it’s also bizarrely life-affirming – all the ways a life can be lived, all the ways a dollar can be made, all the oddities (physical deformities, psychological obsessions, sheer persistence) that can be transformed into triumphs.
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Martha Marcy May MarleneWriter-director Sean Durkin’s debut feature is subtly, almost perfectly calibrated between idyllic and terrifying, all the way to its chillingly...
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WeekendThough it’s a small film, Weekend grabs at a lot of big ideas that will needle you long after it ends. Writer/director Andrew Haigh crafts...
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An interview with OFWGKTAComplete this sentence: If Odd Future were elected president, we would… Tyler – Make skateboarding legal and have a national titty...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyWhere Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-James Bond. Still,...
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Woollen Kits, ‘Woollen Kits’ ...If it was early nineties Spin magazine would no doubt be calling this ‘slacker’ rock and yes it has a loose and relaxed feel but...
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Poolside Boners: an owner’s manual ...Most of the men who read this publication are well through puberty, but not so far through it they’ve forgotten the sheer humiliation that...