Assemblog: March 22, 2013
Under The Bed New this week on Popshifter: LabSplice says Brad Anderson’s new movie The Call is “guided by a very sure hand”; Emily thinks Shooter Jennings is worthy of his dad’s crown on The Other...
View ArticleToday In Pop Culture: Polanski Runs For The Border
By Jeffery X Martin TRIGGER WARNING: DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT You don’t often think about people fleeing the country unless its wartime, and there’s a flood of refugees hitting the shores. But...
View ArticleToday In Pop Culture: I’m Not Saying It Was A Yeti, But…
By Jeffery X Martin Today in Pop Culture, a hike in the snowy mountains turned deadly for nine hikers in the Soviet Union. The cause of their death has never been determined. If it has, the Russian...
View ArticleToday In Pop Culture: The Breaking Of Patty Hearst
By Jeffery X Martin How nice it must be, we think, to come from money. Old money. The kind of money you don’t even realize you have because you’ve had it for so long. Money you didn’t earn. You’re...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed It: February 14 – 20, 2016
By Less Lee Moore We are thrilled to publish a Retro Review of The Zombies’ classic Odessey and Oracle album from none other than esteemed musician, Lenny Kaye! The Witch, which has received an...
View ArticleThe Official Popshifter Podcast, Episode #09: Cults
Welcome to Episode #09 of The Official Popshifter Podcast, “Cults! or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Manson Family.” The reemergence of cults into popular culture leads hosts Less Lee...
View ArticleSXSW Movie Review: Beware The Slenderman
By Brad Henderson Beware The Slenderman is one of the most intense, chilling, and scary documentaries ever to exist. If anyone has surfed any Internet forums, then they most likely they know about...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Fear of 13
By Tyler Hodg Some say life is stranger than fiction; The Fear of 13, a documentary by British filmmaker David Sington, is a whirlwind collection of unbelievable anecdotes told by Death Row prisoner...
View ArticleNetflix Review: Team Foxcatcher
By Tyler Hodg The chilling story of “philanthropist” John du Pont and his shocking murder of Dave Shultz is eerily depicted in the Netflix original documentary, Team Foxcatcher. The story was...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Torquil Campbell’s “True Crime”
By Sachin Hingoo “I am not my art, and he is not me,” says Torquil Campbell. It ends up being the least truthful line in True Crime, a new one-man show by the Stars frontman. In the piece the musician...
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