Articles by Noah Ciubotaru
Midwife Follows a Long, Hard Road on 'No Depression in Heaven'
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024
Marvin Heemeyer spent 18 months gathering steel for his Komatsu bulldozer. He was going to layer large metal sheets over the cab and engine...
Waxahatchee's Stunning 'Tigers Blood' Courses with Life
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2024
The new Wim Wenders film 'Perfect Days' follows a middle-aged man named Hirayama who’s employed as a public restroom cleaner in Tokyo...
Erika de Casier Is Soft and Steely-Eyed on 'Still'
PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2024
'Still' brims with just as much character as Erika de Casier's last two projects, its very title plotting it alongside them in a continuum...
Sampha Follows His Intuition to a "Magical Space"
PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2023
On "Plastic 100°C," the opening track of Sampha's 2017 debut album, Process, the British singer-songwriter and producer was drifting off to...
'Theater Camp' Brings Back the Ensemble Comedy
Directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2023
What would be the last theatrically released movie to qualify as an ensemble comedy? Not a movie that was born out of a major studio roping...
Jessy Lanza Is Both Master and Muse on 'Love Hallucination'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2023
Jessy Lanza's original tracks often sound like remixes. The Hamilton-born, newly LA-based singer-songwriter-producer doesn't load her music...
John Early Skewers Millennials — and Himself — on 'Now More Than Ever'
Directed by Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey
PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2023
"We have to get serious, you guys!" John Early warns towards the end of his debut HBO comedy special, Now More Than Ever, which was taped i...
Kara Jackson Asks the Big Questions on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?'
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
The first song recorded by Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, is 1923's "Downhearted Blues." It starts with Smith pining after unrequi...
