Too many Americans would be thrilled by all that, as long as the victim is a "bad guy."

He's just hurt that he premiered a film at TIFF in 2024, and no distributor ever picked it up. Somehow it's the fault of woke baristas who love seeing eyeballs plucked out.

At least AUGUST UNDERGROUND and GUINEA PIG are fiction.

In the '70s, snuff films were an urban legend. Now the US government is making one and encouraging Americans to watch.

Wild how many people think restorative justice and rehabilitation means running a YouTube channel espousing progressive politics while hiding a serious crime from your audience and employers.

This one features Water Damage, Abronia, Baba Zula, Saicobab, Thabo Tonick, Kea Mandela, Citizen Boy, Makhanj & Atmos Blaq, Pentangle, Arleta, Rhiannon Giddens, Radie Peat, Emma Ruth Rundle, Infinity Knives X Brian Ennals, Third Ear Band, Space Afrika, Light Conductor and Vince Staples.

Did he ghostwrite Bizarre's verses?

An incredible Kiyoshi Kurosawa series on the Criterion Channel leads our streaming picks of the week.

For some reason, I didn't watch it back in 2018. Since I'll be reviewing POSSIBLE LOVE, I wanted to catch up with it.

BEST FILMS I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEPTEMBER PT. 2: NOBODY'S BUSINESS (Alan Berliner) PROCEDURES (Simon Liu) PSYCHO II (Richard Franklin) SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION (Tobe Hooper) SUGAR CANE ALLEY (Euzhan Palcy)

BEST FILMS I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEPTEMBER PT. 1 (NYFF bounty edition): AT NIGHT (Beatrice Gibson) BURNING (Lee Chang-dong) LA GRADIVA (Marine Atlan) MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART II: EXILE (Julia Loktev) NAZA (Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor)

Odd how much press it's getting. "Cleveland" is embarrassing, but "Babylon" is enjoyable (more so than the original album). The other two are OK. It seems like people hate her for being an oligarch who monetizes her personal life - fair enough, I guess - rather than hearing the actual music.