September 20, 2012
Ace’s Raj Ranade will be live blogging Boomslang all weekend. You can click here to read his 2012 Boomslang preview. “That reclusive indie rock genius Jeff Mangum is touring at all is reason enough to see his show at the Kentucky Theatre on Thursday, September 20th at 7 PM. After the release of their classic album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998, Mangum’s group Neutral Milk Hotel disbanded, and the singer/songwriter himself has only performed at a handful of shows in the intervening decade.”

Ace’s Raj Ranade will be live blogging Boomslang all weekend.

You can click here to read his 2012 Boomslang preview.

“That reclusive indie rock genius Jeff Mangum is touring at all is reason enough to see his show at the Kentucky Theatre on Thursday, September 20th at 7 PM. After the release of their classic album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998, Mangum’s group Neutral Milk Hotel disbanded, and the singer/songwriter himself has only performed at a handful of shows in the intervening decade.”

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August 30, 2012
Ace film critic Raj Ranade continues his movies podcast series for Ace: “taking a look back at the best films from one of the best cinematic years in American history – 2007.” He and Fareed are “starting off with a discussion of David Fincher’s unsung masterpiece Zodiac, about the serial killer that haunted San Francisco in the 1970s.” They plan to cover There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the coming weeks… and they’re taking suggestions. Here’s the thing: Raj isn’t ON Facebook or Tumblr, so you’ll have to make recommendations directly onto the Comments section on our site. Like an Animal.

Ace film critic Raj Ranade continues his movies podcast series for Ace:

“taking a look back at the best films from one of the best cinematic years in American history – 2007.”

He and Fareed are

“starting off with a discussion of David Fincher’s unsung masterpiece Zodiac, about the serial killer that haunted San Francisco in the 1970s.”

They plan to cover There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the coming weeks… and they’re taking suggestions.

Here’s the thing: Raj isn’t ON Facebook or Tumblr, so you’ll have to make recommendations directly onto the Comments section on our site. Like an Animal.

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Filed under: movies Zodiac Raj Ranade podcast Ace Weekly Ace Magazine Lexington KY 
August 21, 2012
Ace’s Raj discusses ParaNorman (from the team behind Coraline): Where does it fall on the animated feature spectrum? 

Ace’s Raj discusses ParaNorman (from the team behind Coraline): Where does it fall on the animated feature spectrum? 

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July 18, 2012
If you missed Pitchfork, Raj Ranade’s Ace Recap will make you feel like you were there. He also posted a Pitchfork Live Blog. Whether you were there or not, you don’t want to miss his interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches, and his interview with the Olivia Tremor Control that got interrupted with a cloudburst. “Torrential downpours! Heat strokes! Handlebar mustaches! The Pitchfork Music Festival poses many dangers for press correspondents but myself and photographer Justin Hamlett braved Chicago’s Union Park to capture a record of the festivities. Here are some of the highlights.”

If you missed Pitchfork, Raj Ranade’s Ace Recap will make you feel like you were there. He also posted a Pitchfork Live Blog. Whether you were there or not, you don’t want to miss his interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches, and his interview with the Olivia Tremor Control that got interrupted with a cloudburst.

“Torrential downpours! Heat strokes! Handlebar mustaches! The Pitchfork Music Festival poses many dangers for press correspondents but myself and photographer Justin Hamlett braved Chicago’s Union Park to capture a record of the festivities. Here are some of the highlights.”

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July 12, 2012

Raj Ranade previews Pitchfork Music Festival 2012.

The core of the hipster heart has always belonged to scruffy dudes with guitars, drums, and a penchant for inventive songcraft. That kind of (relatively) old-fashioned contingent is well-represented at this year’s festival.


(Raj will be live blogging Pitchfork at aceweekly.com.

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June 29, 2012
Ace Reviews Movies: Moonrise Kingdom, by Raj

The fussiness is what people love, or love to hate, about the movies of director Wes Anderson: the immaculate retro tailoring, the clockwork regularity of arch one-liners, the precise camera dollies over even more precisely ornamented sets. And Anderson’s latest movie Moonrise Kingdom outdoes all of his films except 2009’s stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox for obsessive compulsive design, from the coonskin cap on its adolescent hero down to the aggressively plaid pants on Bill Murray. (You get the sense that Anderson would use Murray’s body as a stop-motion puppet too if he could.) But there’s something new in both Fox and Kingdom, something that makes them Anderson’s best films yet – the dollhouse worlds that Anderson has devised are as cutesy as ever, but he also seems newly willing to smash his own creations to pieces.

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June 24, 2012
Ace Reviews Movies: Brave, by Raj Ranade

“One of the many remarkable things about Pixar is how the company’s acquisition by Disney, maybe the most massive homogenizing corporate force in American entertainment, has only made their movies weirder. Since 2006, this team has made movies about dystopian environmental decay, the meaning and nature of art, and facing up to death and the gnawing existential void – and somehow, they’ve managed to make these movies in a way that appeals to children, critics, and the box-office in equal measure.”

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Filed under: Movies Movie Reviews Brave Raj Ranade Pixar Disney lexington kentucky Ace Weekly 
June 12, 2012
Ace’s Raj Ranade review’s Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus: I’ll take the wild highs and lows of Prometheus over a blandly competent blockbuster like The Avengers any day.

Ace’s Raj Ranade review’s Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus:

I’ll take the wild highs and lows of Prometheus over a blandly competent blockbuster like The Avengers any day.

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Filed under: Raj Ranade Ace Weekly Prometheus Ridley Scott 
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