All posts by Raj

by Raj Ranade SUNDAY 4:39 - Dirty Beaches drops Elvis-esque 50s swagger over apocalyptic distortion rock (interview up on Monday!) and now Ty Segall is putting on a garage rock

by Raj Ranade Depending on who you talk to in the world of music journalism, the word "Pitchfork" can either be a token of taste-making authority or an obscenity.

by Raj Ranade The fussiness is what people love, or love to hate, about the movies of director Wes Anderson: the immaculate retro tailoring, the clockwork regularity of arch one-liners,

by Raj Ranade One of the many remarkable things about Pixar is how the company's acquisition by Disney, maybe the most massive homogenizing corporate force in American entertainment, has

by Raj Ranade It’s hard not to think of Avatar while watching Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus, and not just because the eerie humanoid in the film’s opening scene

by Raj Ranade "You think you know the story," announces the trailer for The Cabin in the Woods. "Think again!" Or, you know, don't. There are things about this

A Separation (playing at the Kentucky Theatre) is a masterpiece, but it's unassuming and unpretentious in a way that praise like that usually doesn't suggest. It piles up

by Raj Ranade A series of questions regarding The Hunger Games: -          No one likes the literalists who turn their noses up at entire films just because minor detail X would,

by Raj Ranade Movie remakes of old TV shows usually strike a balance between reverence for and gentle mockery of their sources - sometimes it works (the latest Star