This post was updated Sept. 6 at 8:41 p.m. “Certified Lover Boy” is a certified dumpster fire. Drake, the tenured Toronto rapper and global superstar, followed up his lengthy 2018 double album “Scorpion” with a 21-track, 86-minute effort that possesses similar traits as its predecessor – a bloated, uninspiring body of work that lacks the creative spark or focus of his early career records. Read more...
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Marvel’s latest legend has arrived, and his name is Shang-Chi. Released Friday in select theaters, including Westwood’s Regency theater, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” centers around lazy hotel valet, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), as he is forced to return home to fight the demons of his past, including his father and leader of the powerful Ten Rings organization, Xu Wenwu (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung). Read more...
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Never one to shy away from his Christian faith, Kanye West dropped his latest album on a Sunday. The 27-track, nearly two-hour album dedicated to his late mother comes after a hectic year-plus rollout, and “Donda” is quite clearly the furthest from a concise effort for the virtuoso producer and wordsmith. Read more...
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It’s Halsey’s world and everyone else is just living in it. In their fourth album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” Halsey navigates the journey of childbirth in a world of royalty, tragedy and witchcraft. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 22 at 7:04 p.m. The Lorde has risen. More than four years after the release of “Melodrama,” the eloquent artist’s long-awaited third album has arrived. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 22 at 7:02 p.m. The saddle in Brian Jungen’s “The Evening Redness in the West” is tempting viewers to mount its leather seat. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 15 at 5:48 p.m. In a world programmed by zeros and ones, “Free Guy” breathes life into NPCs. Starring Ryan Reynolds, “Free Guy” has all the stereotypical elements of a blockbuster film: action-packed violence, punchy one-liners and an unrequited romance. Read more...
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