Dressed in dirt-caked white straightjackets, the members of Machine Head writhe in padded cells while other nameless characters, also clothed in stained white linens, move about with slinky, ...

While this sonic recalibration — and the evident personal growth that comes with a shift in genre and sound — has sharpened ...

Catharsis burned bright and fast: In its eight years, the Chapel Hill band grew from a heavy and heavy-minded hardcore band to an aggressively ambitious genre bully. They developed a reputation as a ...

Sexual assault. Child abuse. Domestic violence. Mental illness. Body image. Death of a parent to COVID-19. Those are a few of the heavy topics explored through creative channels — dance, song, spoken ...

Films like Paranormal Activity 3 still make massive box-office hauls, and science knows why. Sharon Begley reveals why scary flicks give us a powerful feeling of catharsis and reinforce old-fashioned ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

A long time ago I proposed in this column a thing that I’m still determined to turn into an actual Thing: that the ways in which video games are appealing to users can be broken down into three ...