The Verve are getting back together (without Simon Tong ( Read more... )

And it's ROCKY BALBOA for the review and the win ( Read more... )

Better now, it seems. I have gotten ridiculous amounts of sleep in the last few days; maybe that's had something to do with it. I even went out last night, to the Ash St. Saloon to see the Turn-Ons (the Charmparticles opened, and they were really delightful) and had my soul tickled and soothed again. This is the third time I've seen that band and ( Read more... )

After a miserable, harrowing journey to the Lloyd Cinemas (twenty minutes huddling under a bus "shelter" as gale-force winds slapped rain all over everything - I needed an umbrella just to stand under the bus shelter and I got soaked to the skin and half frozen) I met up with Cecilia and went in and saw DREAMGIRLS.There will follow a proper film ( Read more... )

Excellent interview with Stewart Copeland where he discusses the documentary he made about the Police in 1979/80, and which I am very excited to see ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true - BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA is a really, really awful movie. But I totally, totally love it. It's fantastic for a laugh - everything from the awesome slutness of our two female leads (Winona "Wanna" Ryder and Sadie "I Fucked Jude Law And Kate Moss - At The Same Time" Frost) to the horrifically poor acting skills of Keanu Reeves, to ( Read more... )

I really love how, in the vein of the remixed movie trailers that, through editing and music, make a movie seem like something that it totally isn't, the new ad for CAPOTE that makes it look like Capote was some kind of psycho serial killer. Then again, I don't know, I haven't seen it; maybe it actually is like a sort of literary/biopic version of ( Read more... )

SYBIL (why would they remake a TV movie about a psychological case study that's been PROVEN AS A FRAUD?!?!?! And notice that the press release says NOTHING about the fact that it's not based on a "true" anything? Not that I'm not a huge fan of the book in the same way that I'm a huge fan of, but take it as literal truth in the same way as DONNIE ( Read more... )

What a taxing weekend.
( lengthy philosophical/expository meditation )

All those people who are enthusiastic about the reunion of the Bee Gees should immediately be forced to three back-to-back screenings of SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ( Read more... )