Album Reviews
‘Warpaint’ weaves a sonic dream
After the incredible, unprecedented success of female quartet Warpaint’s full-length debut, “The Fool,” back in 2010, expectations were ratcheted up to high heavens for their next album.
Articles by Mahad Mousse
Album Reviews
Katy Perry’s Prism is just another top-40 album
Does anyone really care about top 40 albums? This is not a dig at Katy Perry, whom I’ll readily admit to turning up plenty of her singles whenever they play on the radio their required […]
Arts & Living
Prisoners: A movie not soon to be forgotten
When a film premise includes child abduction and human torture, it’s already starting off as dark as humanly possible. It’s hard to imagine it getting much worse.
Album Reviews
“AM” is groovy music for those less than groovy nights
The lads of Arctic Monkeys have certainly come far from being that same gang of charming, bratty punks sneering about how uncool the squares were.
Album Reviews
Bland thoughts, bland words, bland actions
It never bodes well for a band when they’re putting out what could be accurately described as a “comeback” album only four albums deep into their career.
Arts & Living
“The Grandmaster” just a pretty fan portrait of Ip Man
The Weinstein Brothers would have you believe that The Grandmaster is nothing less than a non-stop thrill ride boosting heavy martial arts action, intense death-defying sequences, and a killer soundtrack with copious amounts of RZA.
Arts & Living
“The World’s End” is a worthy finale to Wright’s comedy trilogy
After nine years, the journey that director and writer Edgar Wright started back in 2004 with his fun little movie about friends, booze, ice cream and zombies (“Sean Of The Dead”), the affectionately fan-named “Blood […]
Arts & Living
R.I.P.D. feels tacky and toneless
R.I.P.D. is not, contrary to popular internet opinion, just a rehash of the much more popular MIB franchise (even if the premise of a hip 20-something teaming up with a crotchety white guy in a super-secret […]
Arts & Living
New “Lone Ranger” is as Tonto would say: very stupid
If The Lone Ranger accomplishes anything, it will be proving once and for all that the movie making method of putting Johnny Depp in a funny costume, getting him drunk, then preparing to sit back […]
Arts & Living
“Despicable Me 2” is perfectly enjoyable
When Despicable Me came out in the summer of 2010, no one could have realized that it would end up being one of the biggest surprise success stories of the year in animated films. From […]
