The saxophone is the way to the heart, period. No other instrument has such an alluring sound nor as many cool points for it’s presence, whether it is the main melodic element or just a portion of a song, if played right, it leaves the listener besotted and wanting. Jazz Sax, especially used by wunderkind
Tonight’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars” on WEtv confused me. I’m not sure they got a whole lot accomplished even though everybody was crying at the end of evaluations. Hank and Kendra are the big showstoppers, this episode picking up where last week left off with Hank about to make the big reveal to his
Forgot a gift for Father’s Day? Here are 10 Dad Rock tracks he’s sure to love. Over the past few years, rock writers have found a new favorite way to deride and instantly dismiss an artist, album or song in two words–Dad Rock. It sparks images of khaki shorts and crocs, the perfect way to
Steps out on the edge with a fearless exploration of life told with exceptional creativity. A refreshing and remarkable accomplishment. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon won big at Sundance this year with both Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize and took home the Best Director award at the Seattle Film Festival with this funny, touching and unabashedly
Al Pacino’s naturalism is a great gift to cinema. As an ageing locksmith afraid to retire and stuck on a woman who left him decades earlier, he lives alone in a small town. His closest friends are his cat and an addict, the owner of a local tanning/massage parlour (Harmony Korine). He behaves just like
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