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Film Fridays Terminator 5 — The Original Cast Returns; Fast Five is the Best of the Franchise; The Avengers Begins Filming

April 29, 2011 - 11:45 pm

Looks more like Arnold than Arnold himself

So an aging and orange arnold is set to return as everyone’s favorite android. Everyone knows that there’s always gonna be only one Terminator, and that’s Arnold, but unless they come up with some seriously magical sh*t quick to get us out of the ass-deep uncanny valley, he’s gonna be the first cyborg with a colostomy bag and Med-Alert watch. Maybe we’ll get to see Linda Hamilton rub Ben-Gay on his bullet wounds. The best thing is that the original cast (Michael Biehn/Linda Hamilton/Eddie Furlong) will return as well. Having typed that it’s getting easier to realize why James Cameron washed his hands of this franchise so long ago.

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Gallery Music The Big 4 and The Road to Hell: Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer Play Indio

by Jeff Nau

April 27, 2011 - 11:20 am

When asked about Coachella in a recent interview, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian stated his feelings in no uncertain terms. “Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.” Then, for extra emphasis: “I don’t want to have anything to do with you, I don’t like your music, I don’t like your scene, I don’t like your ironic mustaches, and I don’t like your stupid hats.”

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Gallery Los Angeles Music Henry Rollins Spins At Amoeba for Record Store Day

by Jeff Nau

April 27, 2011 - 11:08 am

In the country, hell, the world, few other music stores know how to have as much fun as Amoeba. You go there, you remember why there’s no more Waxie Maxie’s, no more Tower. You have an Amoeba, you’re gold.

And what began as a novelty in 2007 — hardcore vinyl fans uniting to officially salute the lo-fi music of their youth — has grown into a global phenomenon, with Amoeba in Hollywood possibly among the best places to go and celebrate. This year, Henry Rollins was on hand to DJ, sign some stuff, talk with fans, and even inspect tattoos.

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Gallery Music Social Distortion @ the Music Box : Prohibition-Era Punk Rock

by Jeff Nau and E.M.S.

April 26, 2011 - 10:22 am

There’s a lot of you out there (you know who you are) who long ago consigned yourself to the age-old credo “punk is dead.” You’d probably be hard-pressed to believe that even Social Distortion‘s recent Music Box performance could be the best argument in years to such a hastily-conceived notion. In addition to the debut of their newest and most raucous album in years, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, the boys really raised that punk bar a bit more: it wasn’t just a great concert with a tight band, it was a glorious punk rock/rockabilly/cinematic spectacle.

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Film Fridays Geek A New Look At Green Lantern’s World, Attack the Block’s New Trailer, and The Boycott Against Akira Grows

by Jeff Nau

April 22, 2011 - 7:46 pm

The new extended TV spot for Green Lantern is out, taking us deeper into the world of Oa and Kilowog…honestly I wasn’t too sure about veteran James Bond director Martin Campbell handling this one (guess you can’t have Nolan or Arronofsky for every comic book film) but the trailer has me pretty sold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbBsf4akXY

Meanwhile Star Trek veteran George Takei lashes out against the whitewashing of Japanimation masterpiece Akira in a series of tweets…“Akira epic fail–all actors up for Kaneda & Tetsuo are white? Sign & RT the petition…” He ain’t the only one pissed off about it, as the petition’s been live on Facebook for months now.

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Film Fridays Study Shows Nicolas Cage’s Hair May Have an Effect on the Quality of His Films

by Jeff Nau

April 15, 2011 - 7:15 pm

It might be that that he named his kid Kal-El (after Superman’s real name?), and says it so casually in interviews, like his name is Mikey. Or maybe the fact that he has so much goddamn money, he bought a buncha houses and a castle, and then went bankrupt. The rumor is that if you interview the guy, and he catches you looking at his hairline, he will end the interview. It might be that.

On that same subject, a bizarre trend of recent hairstyles has recently caught many moviegoers off-guard. While many of us realize we’ll never get the pompadour of Peggy Sue or the Elvis-loving locks of Wild at Heart, it’s Cage’s recently off-kilter mugs that make his films harder to concentrate on.

3. Bangkok Dangerous (see above) — Sporting a cut similar to John Travolta’s in Pulp Fiction, this is a cut that might look cool but even someone as cool as Travolta was walking that fine line. It sort of proves that this late in life, having the long hair is more of a distraction from that face. We love ya without it, Nic. But that’s okay, cause all I had to do was see those locks on the movie poster to know enough to ignore it.

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Gallery Music Chicks Dig ‘Em: Uh Huh Her

by Jeff Nau and E.M.S.

April 4, 2011 - 12:30 pm

At first listen it doesn’t look or sound like Uh Huh Her is doing much new. Like countless others, they’re riding the 1982-87 New Wave for all it’s worth, packing their stage full of vintage synths, programmed drums, and guitars drenched in delay. Watching their spirited performance at the El Rey on Friday night, it was still hard not to think of Gozer from Ghostbusters and those slicked-down backup dancers from that Robert Palmer video.

But unlike so many others, UHH gets it right, capturing the post-punk spirit of what made bands like Joy Division and The Creatures so catchy. Songs like “I See Red” are infectious and ethereal, even dreamy; “Never the Same” (a preview from their upcoming album Nocturnes), is awash in an astral noise that’s somewhere on the spectrum between Enya and top 40 pop.

And judging by the rapturous applause, they stole hundreds of girls’ hearts tonight. As for the boys, who cares.

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Film Fridays What You Should See This Weekend (A Movie About a Killer Tire) and What You Should Avoid (Everything Else)

by Jeff Nau

April 1, 2011 - 6:20 pm

Even though it’s April, consider the summer film season officially on. After last week’s almost universally panned Sucker Punch, the industry seems on the rebound with a slew of some of the year’s best-reviewed films.

But the one we’re recommending is Rubber, the tale of a living, presumably breathing and extremely pissed car tire named Robert – who wants nothing more than to hook up with chicks, watch exercise videos, and make heads explode, Scanners-style.

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Art/Design Gallery In Your Face Decadence At Pop Tart Gallery

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb

March 29, 2011 - 9:28 am

Wedged in between two subdivisions and a huge church in the middle of Koreatown, Phyllis Navidad’s Pop Tart Gallery is perhaps the last thing you’d expect to find in any suburb, really. A collage of transvestite/transsexual/glammed-out portraits that would make Ratt and Poison look like a bunch of Steve McQueens, tonight’s Your Face Here, curated by Lenora Claire, featured work by celebrated photographer of all things glam-n-drag Austin Young: Huge pictures of Margaret Cho, Perez Hilton and other gender-defying celebs adorn the white walls of this tiny gallery with a great big heart — while a chick/dude in a Dangerous-era Michael Jackson outfit spins mutant strains of classic disco mixed with modern R&B. All as you grab free cocktails. Then Kilsonic, a 50-piece ensemble brass band emerges, just in case you weren’t paying attention.

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Film Fridays Why Video Games Make Sh*tty Movies…and Why the End is In Sight

by Jeff Nau

March 25, 2011 - 5:56 pm

to make up for what you’re about to see.

As a sort of tribute to Sucker-Punch — which is a lot like a video game in that it’s very pretty to look at, lots of stuff gets blowed up good, and you have to defeat lots of big bosses and collect a sort of triforce of power thing (which in this case will allow you to escape rapists, sadistic dominatrixes and a Cuckoo’s Nest-style mental ward) — this week seems appropriate enough to pay a tribute to an age-old Hollywood disease that began, innocently enough, with this:

Take a stroll through cinema hell and view some of the worst video game to film translations ever, and find hope in why the genre might be dying out.

But first focus on this. Ok, here we go

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