Television & Film

Before the private jets, the billion-dollar hospitality empire, and the globally recognized shorthand for coastal escapism, Jimmy Buffett was, in the words of guitarist Roger Bartlett, “a mere mortal.” Bartlett was the first-ever member of the Coral Reefer Band, and he is one of many past Buffett collaborators to speak in Occupational Hazard: The First […]

The satirical romp Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is a fun movie. But is it a great rock ‘n’ roll movie? Eh, not so fast on that second one. Welcome back to Glide’s quest for what makes a good rock ‘n’ roll movie. Last month, we looked at Almost Famous, a great launching pad because […]

A good rock ‘n’ roll movie remains a tough prospect. Why? It’s a question that has remained elusive for years, and for 2026, the rabbit hole beckons. That’s why, coming to you from the screening room at Glide Magazine HQ, we’ve decided to do a bit of research. Every first Friday of the month, we’ll […]

The new documentary Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible is a thoughtful, kinetic chronicle of a band that’s often been simplified to stadium anthems and one massive John Hughes sync. But under Joss Crowley’s direction, the film resists nostalgia baiting in favor of something more expansive, resulting in a layered portrait of restless ambition, reinvention, and […]

Teaches of Peaches, the documentary chronicling the life and career of the Canadian electroclash icon Merrill Nisker, AKA Peaches, offers a visceral, unapologetic exploration of an artist who has spent decades challenging norms and dismantling boundaries. The film profiles Peaches life and her tour in celebration of the 20th anniversary of her breakthrough album, The […]

In 2022, legendary soul singer Lee Fields released Sentimental Fool. The stunning album earned the storied singer another celebrated feather in his cap and continued his victorious run of releases with the equally legendary Daptone Records. The album felt like a victory lap for an artist who has dedicated every free moment to creating music. […]

Taking place over two nights, 2023’s Grateful Dead Meet Up At The Movies rendered it difficult if not impossible to note the significance of the offering. Devoted to the iconic band’s June 22, 1991 performance at Solider Field in Chicago, this first concert at that venue was also the site of the group’s very last show with the late […]

It’s not absolutely necessary to be familiar with Neil Young’s history to enjoy Harvest Time, but it helps.

The Police were just halfway into their career by the time the tour documentary Around The World first came out. They were still a few years away from writing and releasing their bestselling record, 1983’s wildly innovative Synchronicity, and they still had not reached their peak popularity, a steady run that would see them selling […]

Rating C+ The thing about Paul Thomas Anderson is that his talent is so great that even his bad movies are, well, pretty good. His technique and craft are such that his worst movie still has plenty worth noting and considering. Inherent Vice was, by most accounts, not a great movie. And yet there was […]

RATING A It’s difficult to make a compelling narrative from terrible people. We tend to want to like our protagonists and watch them succeed. Constructing a story from awful people we want nothing to do with and whom we hope to fail takes a special kind of talent that’s rare to come by. Which is […]

RATING B+ Strictly speaking, no, we did not need another Matrix. That’s arguably been true since 1999 when the first movie came and blew everyone’s minds with its reality-bending story, mind-melting effects, and evolution of the cyberpunk aesthetic that felt perfect for the turn of the century milieu in which it existed. The next two […]

RATING A+ The one thing you know for sure when going into a Guillermo Del Toro film is that he does not give a fuck about the standards of cinematic convention. He, perhaps more than any other filmmaker working today, makes movies precisely for an audience of one. Whether or not anyone is on board […]

RATING – C+ It isn’t difficult to understand why director Steven Spielberg wanted to remake West Side Story. The original film adaptation of the Steven Sondheim musical is, perhaps, one of the most influential movies of Spielberg’s generation. That film, from directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, set a gold standard for both musical films […]

The wild and unexpected popularity of Cobra Kai—whose fourth season premieres on Netflix on December 31—has naturally led to a rise in interest in the films that birthed the surprise streaming hit. It was difficult to grow up in the 80s without idolizing Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi and now, parents ourselves, we can finally […]

I was far, far too old to catch the wave of Avatar: The Last Airbender as it made its debut in 2005. That was a world to which I felt I would never belong, a sort of symbolic generation gap that would forever define the chasm between elder Millennials and Gen Z, one which I […]

Rating- B The last couple of decades have really forced a reconsideration of what the western is as a genre. As we creep further and further into the 21st century, so, too, has the genre progressed. Once firmly set in a world pre-Civil War, the modern western finds itself creeping into the 20th century, where […]

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RATING – A Jonathan Larson never lived to see his impact. The writer and creator of Rent, one of Broadway’s most enduring and beloved musicals, died suddenly the night before his play made its grand debut. He never lived to see his Tony Awards, his Pulitzer, or the worldwide acclaim he very rightly deserved. For […]

Despite changing the course of film history with Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper’s career behind the camera in the years that followed was sparse. Most of that absence is due to the failure of his 1971 follow-up, The Last Movie, which effectively led him to be exiled from the director’s chair for nearly a decade. That […]