Robert S. Hummel

By Robert S. Hummel Don Hertzfeldt is the Davy Crockett of contemporary animation: a self-made man and a master of primitive tools with a legendary…

You’d be forgiven to think the post-rock genre obsolete. Our present era of serious pop music, defined by challenging rap and innovative sound, has little…

Pity this poor writer. He is tasked with making greater sense of a deliberate musical enigma; with bringing the necessary gravity to a genre touchstone…

It’s said that it would take somewhere around nine months to travel to Mars on a modern space shuttle. The red planet is a place…

“The Bin Laden movie” is a bracing, incendiary work of art, too hot for most Americans to handle

A short story by Robert S. Hummel

“America’s not a country, it’s a business.”  This grim, final proclamation by Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) defines the overwhelming sentiment of Killing Them Softly. In…

Perhaps you met someone deep within, passed one during a solitary march through the depths of that forest, surrounded by the darkness even in the light. A nymph, drawn to the light of your eyes – in your careful blinks, you’d send morse-code messages to whomever could understand. She would listen, hold your head in her pale lap, her white dress of lightest silk.

Gone With The Wind, The Godfather and The Wizard of Oz, among others, are canonized as some of the finest storytelling Hollywood ever created, and rightfully so. Today though, it seems as if the industry has turned its back on the rich tradition of great, original storytelling that is the crown jewel of classic Hollywood.

Now, a decade after their exile, Godspeed returns with a statement that more than makes up for lost time. Consisting of only four tracks, the product is fifty-two minutes of their most astonishing music to date.