Arcade Fire sold out Madison Square Garden and asked Terry Gilliam to direct the results. Sounds like the perfect fantastical matchup if you ask me. Decide for yourself and watch this video of Terry Gilliam directing Arcade Fire performing “Rococo”.
You might have to be redirected to YouTube if Vevo decides to be a jerk.
The economy, the oil spill, the confirmation of Elena Kagan, our ninth year in Afghanistan. Boring! What you care about are celebrities – and I’m here to dish out the latest! This is Celebrity Roundup!
In case you missed it, 24-year-old Amanda Bynes recently announced she was coming out of early retirement! Whew – that’s a relief! Maybe that long-awaited “What I Like About You” movie will happen after all. Let’s cross our fingers. …Continue reading this entry
There are too many films to see. My DVR is packed to the brim (granted, Golden Girls reruns are somewhat to blame for that), and I’ve only been to the theater to see a new movie twice all year. So going back to revisit movies I’ve already seen seems completely out of the question. Some movies, though, not only deserve re-watching, but demand it.
It was a long time since I had looked forward to seeing a show on television every week. The last time I felt this way was during the great Seinfeld era in the 90′s. Don’t get me wrong, there have been many wonderful sitcoms since then but none that enticed me like The Office. I would religiously plan out my evening or set my DVR as not to miss the newest episode for that week. After this upcoming season, I fear that may change for me. It has been public knowledge for some time now that Steve Carell was planning to leave the show after his seven-season contract was fulfilled with NBC. I was hoping for more. While The Office has had it’s ups and downs I feel it has been an extremely solid sitcom for the most part, bringing tons of entertainment and inside jokes for millions of people. …Continue reading this entry
“Spoiler Alert”….maybe? I don’t think it really matters if you haven’t seen the film.
The Kids Are All Right
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko
Starring Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some teen drug and alcohol abuse
In The Kids Are All Right, Annette Benning and Julianne Moore play Nic and Jules, a married lesbian couple with two teenage kids, obtained through artificial insemination. When the older of the two kids turns 18, her 15-year-old brother urges her to contact the donor, Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Although the meeting goes fairly well, the mothers are incensed when they find out. In order to avoid a rift with their kids, they invite Paul to dinner against their better judgment. Paul’s presence interrupts their marital and familial bliss, exposing weaknesses in their relationships. Paul, however, is temporarily driven to find some stability in his freewheeling lifestyle and wants to stay in the picture. …Continue reading this entry
Prediction: Approximately a week from now, perhaps sooner, there is going to be a war. Not a serious one, but an internet-based, opinion fueled FaceBook mud-sling between people arguing that Inception is either “the best film ever” or “a complete waste of time”. The arguers claiming that it is the best film ever will likely be hobbled by a severe deficiency of knowledge of classic cinema. …Continue reading this entry
Christopher Nolan blows our minds and gives us the best film of the year so far.
We’ve all got movie blind-spots, even those of us that consider ourselves pretty culturally aware. Until the past year, I’d never seen such cinema classics as Raging Bull, Lawrence of Arabia, or Sunset Blvd., and A Clockwork Orange, The Seventh Seal, or On the Waterfront still remain on my ever-growing list of movies I have yet to see. …Continue reading this entry
All pop culture is a window into a society’s psyche. Film noir was a response to the horrors of World War II and the emergence of women in the workplace. Punk rock countered the rampant commercialism and over-production in music during the mid-late 1970s. The cultural revolution of the mid- late 1960s is, almost definitely, the most drastic societal shift of the past century, when the baby boom generation came of age and almost everything changed. This shift was evident in the music of the time (the rise of rock and roll), the literature (Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Allen Ginsburg, etc.), and the films of the moment. Mark Harris’ book Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood studies this sea change by looking at the whole of film, and the general culture, through a narrowly focused lens – the movies competing for the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1968 Academy Awards. …Continue reading this entry
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