Some films take hundreds of hours of tedious work and countless exhausted nights of ulcerous brooding. Some simply make themselves. “The Wolfpack” was shot mostly on New York’s Lower East Side by home video masters the Angulo brothers. Locked up in their apartment for over a decade, held captive by a paranoid father and co-dependent
The intense, richly detailed limited series New Worlds looks to the late 1600s, the turbulent Restoration period and the simultaneous settling and colonisation of America, the new world. It shows in its limited scope, why these events were happening at the same time, how it affected the political and religious refugees to America, the native
O Captain! My Captain! Captain Beefheart has had a very special place in my heart since the ripe age of 10. It was not until I got older and started to have a better understanding for music that I could fully grasp how much of a genius and impeccable musician this man was. So, let’s
Forget about everything else that happens on WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp” this week, the bombshell is that, while they’re living in the mansion filming the show, the transsexual “model” that Hank Baskett supposedly had an affair with posts an audiotape on the Internet of a conversation he had with the NFL star. Supposedly it’s Hank.
Barthes’ pared down adaptation of the Flaubert novel is supple, hard hitting and feels contemporary, even set in the 19th century in a hidebound class conscious Normandy, France. Human behaviour has likely not changed much since then so we recognise the characters and their struggles over money, sex and social standing, the same things that
Schools are letting out, the days are getting sweatier and soon enough, summer will be coming on strong. For now, let’s embrace the remaining days of a gloomy June with a Goth-y bit of nostalgia from the summer of ’85. These 10 songs (all released between June-September ’85) are sure to strike a chord with
I’m pissed about the way Lifetime and Collins Avenue productions have been treating Abby Lee on “Dance Moms” lately. I’ve been a fan for a long time – I DVR “Dance Moms” and watch it when my husband’s not around because he cannot stand to listen to the moms bitching and sniping at each other.
The reigning king of special effects lacks the clever acting of the original, but triples the action in 3-D IMAX. Director Colin Trevorrow lands on the audience with both feet and eight claws in this thermo-nuclear explosion of dinosaur interactions that go horribly wrong. This is exactly what one would expect, given that mankind seems
Franz Ferdinand and Sparks are collaborating the sounds of early glam rock, synth pop/art rock, and combining it with a newer dance-rock/post-punk revival sound to form the band, FFS. Sparks have been around since the early 70’s and have made a name for themselves in the music industry for their theatrical stage presence, their exquisite
The 80s are one of the most beloved of all generations — and not only by those who lived through it, but also by those who get to look back at it and go, “what the f*** were you guys on?!”. The world advanced in social consciousness, political awareness, and technological advancement. I mean, where would we