The best of all things pop culture (film, television, music, books, peoplet) for 2018 (so far...).
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow, to my own surprise, has done it again. When I first heard that Bigelow was dipping from the war well again, I was not excited. Though The Hurt Locker was as tense and tight a film as I have ever seen, the promise of another the-same-but-different war story sounded a bit lackluster. Suffice... Continue Reading →
'Gofobo' set to Arcade Fire's 'Rococo' Let's go downtown and watch the modern flicks Let's go downtown and talk to the modern flicks They will give prices right into your hand Using promotions that they don't understand They say Gofobo, gofobo, gofobo, gofobo Gofobo, gofobo, gofobo, gofobo They build it up just to burn it... Continue Reading →
LAWLESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpA0g0UG9CU
"It's not violence that sets men apart, it's the distance they're willing to go." Forrest Bondurant Lawless, which opens nationwide tomorrow, is a phenomenal action film that is as equally disturbingly violent as it is surprisingly funny. The action is non-stop, the characters familiarly real and the prohibition era setting of Franklin County, Virginia, known as the "wettest county in the world" is ripe for exploring. Lawless, put simply, is unruly fun. "Lawless is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel "The Wettest County in the World", the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave. -- (C) Weinstein"