I don’t know what it is about this new recurring Saturday Night Live sketch that is so appealing. When the first installment of “What Up With That?” launched a few weeks ago, it felt like a cool breeze of much-needed absurdity in an otherwise...

1. Cold Cave, Love Comes Close (Dark but delicious synth-pop, as if The National added more skip to its step.) 2. Memory Tapes, Seek Magic (Philadelphia soundscaper Dayve Hawk has followed up his stellar Memory Cassette EPs with this album of submerged...

As Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles prepares its U.S. release (Thanksgiving weekend in select cities, and then nationwide soon after), there’s a growing number of interviews with Linklater about all kinds of topics (especially questions...

Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is great. Still only in limited release, Anderson’s sixth feature officially ends his frustrating creative downturn. His career came storming out of the gate, with the one-two-three punch of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore,...

Talented music video director Garth Jennings (who also made the film Son of Rambow) turns his camera on Vampire Weekend, for the band’s new video. It’s for their single “Cousins,” the first new track from the group’s upcoming sophomore LP....