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Steve Ellison is still freaked out by earthquakes. The man who'd grow up to be the boundary-pushing electronic musician Flying Lotus and cult-adored rapper Captain Murphy was only 10 years old when ...

There is raw emotion in art like the aforementioned, just as there is in each vignette of Kuso, and there is an emotional throughline here. Unfortunately, any thematic elements are buried under ...

The midnight screening of “Kuso” was not well received by some Sundance Film Festival attendees. Audience members began walking out of the theater after just “10 minutes of boil-bursting, pus-oozing ...

The LA producer and musician discusses his first feature film, an unholy mashup of stoner comedy, body horror and incest. But will it simply prove too disturbing for audiences? The Guardian’s ...

TRIGGERING mass walkouts at the Sundance Film Festival, plenty of people who watched Flying Lotus’ new flick Kuso are calling it the grossest film ever. A WOMAN chews on concrete until her teeth ...

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Flying Lotus tweets that 'Kuso' is a jolly romp through 'pretty much everything I'm afraid of.' By Kat Bein It was all a lie! Flying Lotus wasn’t debuting a short film called Royal at Sundance Film ...

He’s won mainstream attention for his work with Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead and Erykah Badu, while pioneering the Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene. Now the electronic composer and producer Flying ...

If the chief enemy of creativity is good taste, as Pablo Picasso apparently once said, let us add that it’s also toxic to common sense. In Hollywood’s inverted moral framework, the soaring, ...