As I left the movie theatre in downtown Ithaca, New York on the Friday night after Thanksgiving a wintery gust ripped a crucial piece of paper from my ungloved hand. On that scrap I’d sketched out the ...

A surreal blend of novelty songwriting, tape manipulation, and dark humor defines the work of Napoleon XIV, the alias of Jerry Samuels, who carved out a singular moment in 1960s pop culture with an ...

“A Minecraft Movie” and “Napoleon Dynamite” don’t sound too similar on paper. After all, what could a blockbuster video game adaptation starring Jason Momoa have in common with a 2004 indie comedy? As ...