Month: December 2024

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Culture

The Last True Servant: Remembering Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)

In a world that too often venerates power over principle and ambition over altruism, Jimmy Carter stood as a singular beacon of integrity and humility. The 39th President of the United States, who passed away peacefully at the age of 100, was not just a politician but a man of enduring moral clarity, a steadfast advocate for justice, and a true servant of the people. Born on October 1, 1924, […]

todayDecember 30, 2024 32

Feature

SUBSTRATE STAFF PICKS (BEST SONGS OF 2024)!!!!

 Craig Gift Horse - IDLES Alone - The Cure Spinning - Wishy Right Back to it - Waxahatchee Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals     Suaze ScHoolboy Q - Blue Slides Nala Sinephro- Continuum 7 Amaro Freitas- Gloriosa Bruno Berle- Dizer Adeus Westside Gunn - Runway Pieces at the last supper Honorable mention: Kendrick Lamar 6:16 in L.A.   Darby Jack A Country Western - Great is the […]

todayDecember 26, 2024 171

Film Review

Emilia Pérez (2024)

By - Gareth Jones   For fans of Jacques Audiard, Selena Gomez, Trans stories, innovative musicals Jacques Audiard has now made 10 feature films in 30 years.  He is an artist who is consistently challenging himself and his medium, film.  Most often he creates new experiences with sound and vision in films such as A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Read My Lips, and Dheepan..  Other times, he plays with the […]

todayDecember 26, 2024 39

Film Review

Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite

By - Gareth Jones   For fans of Turkish cinema, great child performances, prison dramas Originally released in 1989, the recent MUBI 4K restoration of this classic Turkish film Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite is an incredible revelation of a specific time in Turkish cinema, but also still an extremely timely story.  It is directed by the great Tunç Başaran, who directed nearly 50 films in his career. This […]

todayDecember 19, 2024 67

s.i.c. picks

SIC PICKS DECEMBER 16-22W

Gareth’s Picks Fighting with My Family (2019) Based on the true story of a wrestling family in England, this film is directed by the hilarious Stephen Merchant, co-creator of the original British Office as well as many other acting roles.  Here, he is able to showcase the astonishing range of acting by Florence Pugh, showing extreme physicality in the role to add to her depth of emotional range.  Her father […]

todayDecember 18, 2024 138

News

Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain Dies at 73

Zakir Hussain, the groundbreaking percussionist who helped bring the tabla and Indian classical music to the world stage, has died, his family said in a statement. He died, in a San Francisco hospital, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease. Hussain was 73 years old.

todayDecember 17, 2024 15

book review

Me and Mr. Jones: My Life With David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars By: Suzi Ronson

By - Jackie Lo “My life was all black and white until I met David and afterwards it was glorious technicolor as bright as the hair on his head”. That line, from the epilogue summed up the incredible story of a young girl, a hairdresser, who befriended David Bowie’s mother and wife and in turn, they turned her whole life upside down.  Me and Mr. Jones: My Life With David […]

todayDecember 12, 2024 52

Film Review

Time Masters (1982)

By - Gareth Jones   For fans of René Laloux, Moebius, French animation, science fiction I still vividly remember seeing two films by René Laloux when I was young.  The first was the incomparable Fantastic Planet which came out in 1973, but which I saw on VHS at some point in the early 80s.  I was absolutely transfixed and still see it as one of the greatest animated films ever […]

todayDecember 12, 2024 53

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