Punk Rock legends, heartbreak, and a full moon, what else could you ask for on a Thursday night in Hollywood? Perhaps a reserved parking spot in front of the bar or a free Uber ride, but that’s wishful thinking. March 6th of this 2015th year since Christianity claims to have its favorite Prophet’s birthday was
Jason Isaacs tackles a 2000 year conspiracy in Dig, a new miniseries from the makers of Homeland. Isaacs plays Peter Connelly, a Jerusalem based FBI agent investigating the murder of an American woman which leads him to an extraordinary, labyrinthine mystery involving international governments, religions and special interest groups. The series takes viewers around the
Shakespeare’s tragedy Cymbeline gets the modern treatment as a biker gang versus dirty cop war set in Manhattan. Ed Harris is the titular drug dealer who leads his soldiers into deadly territory facing off with the corrupt police chief Caius Lucius (Vondie Curtis-Hall) and his band of men. Cymbeline’s merciless fervour and explosive temper instil
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 manages to capture all the elements that has kept the franchise great, but fails to be more than a cash-grab by the studio who felt the need to break the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy into two films. Directed by Francis Lawrence (who helmed Catching Fire), Mockingjay,
When going to the Echo or Echoplex, you are pretty much guaranteed to have a good time. They have bands of all kinds of genres and range of popularity that play. I had the joy of walking through the urine stained alleys of Echo Park to see Viet Cong, and what I considered to be
Leave it to Heidi Montag to take a serious episode of WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars” and turn it into a scene straight out of the movie “Mean Girls” while tormenting Aviva Drescher. I don’t even like Aviva and I thought Heidi was a complete and utter bitch this week. What became glaringly apparently
Conflicted werewolves!? Sure, why not? Female!? Yup. Just ask Laura Vandervoort who plays one on TV. The Space series Bitten is the first to feature a strong female lead that is indeed a deadly creature of the night. Vandervoort is bringing home fearlessly and embraces her powers. In terms of her human everyday self, Vandervoort
Eddie Trunk has truly been the pioneer for getting metal and hard rock the attention it needs. He was playing metal back in the 80’s on his own radio show, and showing to the masses how incredible of a genre it really is. He has done the radio stuff, TV, and has even worked for
I’m always nervous when a band I love announces their next release; I get anxious, thinking that it could be the best one yet, or the one that loses me. This sense of uncertainty is especially present when it’s an eclectic group like of Montreal, who debuted in ’97 with joyful, 60s obsessed twee pop
Michael Urie may be best-known as Betty Suarez’ gay best friend Marc St. James on the hit series Ugly Betty; he was slightly-over-the-top with a great sense of humour, unforgettable. But Urie’s actor’s palette contains many more colours than that. Urie was a Julliard student in New York when the 9/11 attacks occurred. A few