Creating a satire on your own culture is a doubled-bladed dagger. Satirists seldom become lionized or praised for their efforts as pointing out failures and dangers and the ridiculous presence of deluded emperors wearing invisible clothes tends to invoke more embarrassment than wisdom or appreciation. Sometimes greatness is achieved - most readers and critics still applaud Joseph Heller's "Catch-22"...
COLIN FIRTH, EMILY BLUNT, KIRK DOUGLAS and ROBERT DE NIRO were among the honourees at the 2009 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday night (05Nov09).
'Hell Yeah!' is an ongoing series in which horror filmmakers, critics and fans share their take on movies they love. This month: vampires! I know I might seem a little off-base...
SIR KEN ADAM was born 1921 in berlin, germany. being jewish/german he relocated in 1933 to england with his family. after the second worldwar he started to work in the film industry, educated as an architect. in the mid-fifties he worked in hollywood on AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS and BEN HUR. it was [...]
A whole new blog category was born out of the marriage between a rant about throwing off the Comcast Cable yoke and a hilarious magazine cover from the 70's. We are way more than ironically enthused to continue featuring articles in the developing genre of Apartment Life 2.0. Earlier this week, we presented our first Apartment [...]
By Joy A. Kennelly Now that the Hermosa Beach City Council Candidates I was stumping for, Jeff Duclos and Howard Fishman, are safely in office I can get back to more fun topics seeing as I've left you dangling on...
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
Filed under: Audio/Video If Stanley Kubrick and the Beastie Boys ever got together and decided to design an iPod dock, it would probably look a lot like the latest monolithic, instant-party machine to hit the market. Brothers' new ' Wall of Sound ' iPod speaker (sharing the name of Phil Spector's legendary production technique heard on classics like the Crystals' 'Da Doo Ron Ron') is the perfect way...
As the Austrian director's Cannes-winning The White Ribbon arrives in UK cinemas, a long-overdue viewing of his film of The Castle has opened my eyes to another thread running through his work Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon is to be released next week. With the director's steadily advancing reputation, his big commercial success here with his 2005 film Hidden , and of course the Cannes...
Actress Nicole Kidman revealed in a new DAILY MAIL piece that she sometimes explored the kinky side in her love life. This should hardly be a total surprise from this 42 year old actress who once starred in the controversial last Stanley Kubrick film, EYES WIDE SHUT. According to the Australian actress, "...I've explored strange fetish stuff". Nicole Kidman also opened up a little about her...
An interview with the great Italian composer and pianist Alessandro Esseno, considered by critics one of the most interesting musicians in the world. The new album after 10 years of research, from classical music to experimental electronic, an artist has always been at the forefront. "The nature of music is essentially metaphysical, this is what I've always been fascinated with the sounds and noises....
Created at least in part du to popular demand, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars will provide some closure to fans who were dismayed by the demise of the popular science fiction television show in 2003 and campaigned mightily to bring it back. Indeed, this miniseries (originally broadcast over two nights on the Sci-Fi Channel) will likely appeal primarily to the Farscape faithful, as the somewhat convoluted
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) –On a hazy mid-August morning at the swanky Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, California, indie rock royalty Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis -- who have gathered to promote their new band, Monsters of Folk -- are nestled on a mustard-colored couch in a quiet room with all-yellow vintage decor that resembles a set from a Stanley Kubrick film. At the moment, however,...
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