Watching Kanye pull a ‘George Lucas’ on Street Lights, altering it into a track extolling his faith for finally getting him to his ‘destination’, was one of the most bitter moments in going through this new album/film pairing for me. It’s a moment with so much potential for faithful power: Kanye revisiting a masterwork made in a time of intense pain and questioning, now in a newer, more hopeful context. But what Kanye’s gained in reaching Street Lights’ destination is…

Leave it to Rob Zombie to give us a manic, gory cop revenge movie that treats its protagonist like the serial killer he’s built to be. If 1000 Corpses is a deep-dive into America’s working class fetishization in spite of the actual American dream of wealth, Rejects shows us the violent resolution of this hypocrisy. The colorful, dizzying escape of the circus ends with a step back into a harsh reality.

The family at the center of these films live in a world seemingly of…