Posts Tagged ‘Film’
Film The White Stripes Unveil “Under Bright White Northern Lights” Film In Vintage Style
March 10, 2010 - 5:03 pm
You can bet Jack White doesn’t like music blogs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the proudly retro guitarist-vocalist of The White Stripes doesn’t dig on YouTube either. So it would probably please him to no end that when he and partner Meg White played a series of off-the-cuff public shows in Canada (a bowling alley is Saskatoon, a YMCA in Toronto, a city bus in Winnipeg) during the band’s 2007 tour, this sort of obvious blog fodder flew under the radar of all but the most obsessive web citizens. Read Full Story
Daily Dots Daily Dots: Phoenix, D’Angelo, White Stripes, Keith Richards Gets Crunk
March 8, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Today’s Best Bloggin…
- Phoenix “Lisztomania” is covered by NYC elementary school kids. Prefix
- Wayne Coyne is making another movie. Billboard
- Blondie has a new disco-punk-new wave line of Converse. Spin
- D’Angelo pays for sex, but only $40. AOL
- NPR is streaming the new White Stripes live album. NPR
- Raaaaaaaandy disses Justin Bieber. 2DopeBoyz
- Keith Richards still gets hiiiiiiiigh! Rolling StoneDaily
Film Anvil! The Story of Anvil
March 6, 2010 - 11:34 am
“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”, was awarded the “Best Documentary” category at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, which was held last night (Friday, March 5) at LA Live’s panoramic event deck in downtown Los Angeles. ANVIL also performed twice during the ceremony, which aired live and uncut on IFC. Below is a review of the film by Chris Gore. It’s good to see the Canadians having such a bang on year…first the olympics and now this! Rock on dear readers……rock on!
Rush is an epic band for the ages. Rush is also Canada’s pride and their best-known musical act. Rush has had hit albums for decades. Rush can fill stadiums on tour. Rush has universal appeal having been referenced in recent films such as Adventures of Power, Fanboys and I Love You, Man. Unfortunately, Anvil is not Rush.
Anvil is also from Canada and has been around for decades, but they are not widely known outside their small fan-base and they certainly can’t fill stadiums. Heck, they can barely fill a living room. Despite the fact that you’ve probably never heard of the metal sensation from the Great White North, Anvil is well-respected by members of other metal bands. In fact, when Lars Ulrich of Metallica is asked about bands that have been together the longest there are only two that come to mind, The Rolling Stones and Anvil.
Film Chinashop Reviews Movies We Haven’t Seen Yet
February 23, 2010 - 11:58 am
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This Friday the 26th sees the release of the new Kevin Smith film, Cop Out, and yet another in a never-ending stream of zombie flicks, The Crazies. This week we’ll be squaring the two off against each other, just based solely on the trailer, stills, cast, and every other detail we cared enough to dig up on the films. Read Full Story
Film Hey Kids– It’s the ANTICHRIST!
November 2, 2009 - 4:16 pm
Critics have called it shocking, horrific, repulsive, and pretentious; Roger Ebert claimed that Von Trier “has reached me and shaken me,”; others deemed it “the most shocking film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.” So is Antichrist really deserving of all the controversy heaped upon it? (Is any film, really?) While it may be a bit overhyped, the last 45 minutes or so of the film easily rival the visceral gore of most contemporary torture-porn horror films. You know how certain movies get the ‘unrated’ aka NC-17 card, and you leave shaking your head, cursing the retarded logic of the MPAA? I’m surprised this one even made it to a theater: Genital mutilation, hardcore sex shots, leg impalement, Willem Dafoe’s ass, and a rather prescient fox who screeches astutely: “CHAOS REIGNS!”
Film Extract-ly
September 4, 2009 - 11:29 am
The Red Carpet. Ahhhhh, you cruel bane of my photographic existence. For to stand shoulder, atop sweaty shoulder, of every crazy out there with a moblog and a black box stamped “made in Japan” is an experience I can only relate to being called an asshole by one’s Grandmother. But not this time bucko, I’ve actually convinced some poor PR person into thinking my black box shoots video and that I know what the hell to do with this fake microphone. I’m at the world premiere of Mike Judge’s newest slacker-piece EXTRACT and I’ve got some questions.
Fashion Sex And The City 2: Open Call
August 11, 2009 - 9:53 am
Yesterday’s open casting call for Sex & The City 2 was an incredible sight. Despite the sweltering heat & lack of shade, thousands of well-garbed budding thespians thronged to the Metropolitan Pavilion for their chance to be immortalized on the silver screen, alongside the likes of Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, Miranda Hobbs & Samantha Jones.
Film Viva
August 3, 2009 - 12:26 pm
It is 1972. And we can tell this not just from the vibrant colors, the giant polyester collars and the macramé owl décor, but because the narrator Barbi tells us we’re in suburbia in 1972. We meet the striking brunette Barbi while she lounges fully nude in a bubbly tub reading a pornographic magazine. On the surface, she seems like a simple housewife living the dream life… a beautiful home, a handsome husband and liquored up neighbors to help pass the time when hubby Rick is away. But Barbi’s perfect world slowly falls apart when she loses her job and Rick scoffs at her disapproval of his long business trips. With her best friend Sheila, the two set off on an adventure. The two hit the town like innocents thrown to the wolves when they meet a nice lady that suggests they have sex with men… for money. Barbi finds the idea of being a whore romantic and she changes her name to Viva. Fully liberated and now in control of her own life, Barbi/Viva seeks to find herself in a new world of sexual freedom.
Film Make Room for Tommy
July 26, 2009 - 10:33 am
“No one inspired me, I inspired myself.” This is the proud proclamation of one Tommy Wiseau, the writer, director and star, really the entire brains behind The Room. Maybe you’ve heard about this cult film and the crazy things people do when they see it. Maybe you’ve heard someone quote the movie casually saying, “Oh. Hi, Mark.” Or perhaps you remember the billboard of The Room featuring only Tommy’s pensive and pained expression looking down upon the traffic on Highland Avenue just south of Hollywood. It was in Los Angeles, that this phenomenon was born when midnight screenings of the movie erupted in chaos… much of it planned.
interview Drew Pearce: No Heroics
July 23, 2009 - 10:48 am
We have average, mediocre days in which we aspire to something greater. We sit in movie theaters imagining ourselves as the super heroes, with destinies, super powers, and epic sex lives.
But, how can we be sure that telepathy or the ability to fly would improve our lives? More likely, we would be ordinary people who could use heat powers to warm up our dinners without using a microwave.
Drew Pearce has created the amazingly hilarious world of “No Heroics” to examine this exact thought. For those who are unfamiliar with the story; it’s very simple, but very funny. Inspired by his time as a musician, Drew crafted the narrative of four friends who happen to be super heroes: The Hotness, Electroclash, Time bomb, and She Force who all commiserate at the local heroes-only pub—The Fortress—about their struggle to rise above mediocrity…all with hilarious consequences.
Amidst the mass of caped convention attendees, I was lucky to sit down with the hero himself, “No Heroics” creator Drew Pearce and talk about the UK version of the show, the unaired US pilot, and the super-power he’d most like to have.
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