Authors: B. Allan Johnson
Film Review: Backrooms
Backrooms’ strength is in its scale. Sets are appropriately expansive – sprawling and beautifully broken with wide shots that feel uncanny and uncomfortable. … read more
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Local Music Singles Roundup: June 2026
If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love anyone else? So to express eternal pride, SLUG has got you covered with an overall musical good time. … read more
Last Call for Secondhand Screenings!
Secondhand Screenings are bringing the heart-warming, soul-crushing, hopeful lights at the end of the tunnel or sorrowful turns for the worst. Last call! … read more
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Local Review: Sutures — Around My Neck
Around My Neck is an addictive explosion of sound broken by moments of sobriety. Suture’s debut EP interrupts and introduces violent static with calm melodies. … read more
Film Review: The Bride!
The Bride! was a genuine effort — that much is obvious — but it fails to stick the landing and doesn’t come close to honoring the campiness of the original. … read more
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Film Review: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Nirvanna The Band’s most recent scheme has them pretending to be from the future; only somehow, Johnson and McCarrol send themselves back in time to 2008. … read more
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Film Review: No Other Choice
Korean cinema has gained a lot of attention in America ever since Parasite in 2019, and No Other Choice shares similar aspects like slapstick humor and horror. … read more
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Film Review: Sentimental Value
Sentimental Value’s a solid Oscar contender. As far as films predetermined to be nominated in every category go that aren’t Oscar bait, this is one of the best. … read more
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SLUG Magazine Presents: 31 Days of Secondhand Givings
Gather around the radiant glow of the box set and don your gay apparel, you little freaks, for a festive installment of Secondhand Screenings! … read more
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Film Review: The Smashing Machine
Though it often subverts your expectations of a sports film, The Smashing Machine devolves into a textbook sports picture as it nears its conclusion. … read more
Film Review: Cheese Bait
There’s no one telling Rountree to do anything except Rountree. I’m happy that this premiered in a movie theater at all, and Brewvies was the perfect place to see Cheese Bait. … read more
Review: The Knee-Hi’s — Razzle Dazzle
By cosmic miracle, I was introduced to The Knee-Hi’s, a Chicago-based rock group, through a recommendation of their song “Make You Mine” from the all-knowing Apple Music algorithm. … read more
