The 1980s delivered a run of films that mixed big imagination with precise craft, and that is a combination people still chase. Studios took risks on original stories and bold voices, and audiences ...

It’s a brave soul who would play pot luck with Netflix’s film selection: you could easily wind up with a particularly tatty Netflix Original Movie and rue the day you subscribed. Watch out for Tyler ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film and installation, who spent much of ...

What is surprising about their fourth studio full-length isn't so much that it's their most commercially accessible album, or that Mavis Staples sounds fantastic on the stark "Pulling the Pin", but ...

A festival with a true independent spirit, Slamdance Film Festival has recently found a new home in Los Angeles, where it will return next month. Running in-person from February 19 to 25, 2026, and ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Of all the film festivals to fill the theaters throughout the year in Chicago, the Chicago International Film Festival offers the broadest scope and the biggest selection of films from names familiar ...

The talents on Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood Impact Report rep the future of the entertainment business. They are all between the ages of 18-28 and cross all media platforms and look to a ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of my life ...

The role of the music producer has never been static. While many think that a producer walks into the studio and hits the big red "record" button, their role is much more dynamic than that. Over the ...