Celebrating cinematic folk, born on this day 11/23 . Get out your kazoos. Franco, Maxwell and Harpo. Half of the fun of building these posts is these completely nonsensical groupings! 1859 Billy the Kid , outlaw. I've always thought it a mystery as to exactly why people routinely idolize characters whom they would never want to meet in real life. Murderers, criminals, thieves, (especially gangsters)...
One of the surprise debuts of last year had to be Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... , a talk show featuring Costello pulling off the rare triple threat: host, performer and bandleader. Equal parts interview and jam session, the Sundance series relies upon Costello putting the artists at ease, getting even the prickliest of artists to open up and speak warmly about their influences. But, as Martin Mull...
Writer/Dir: David S. Goyer ( The Unborn ) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Callum Keith Rennie, John Michael Higgins, Triple H, Kris Kristofferson USA , 2004 Seen: Originally on DVD, revisited on DVD November 18, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * After being...
Dir: Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Leonor Varela, Kris Kristofferson, Thomas Kretschmann, Luke Goss, Norman Reedus, Ron Perlman, Donnie Yen, Tony Curran USA / Germany , 2002 Seen: Originally seen theatrically, revisited on DVD November 18, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire...
Dir: Stephen Norrington (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Udo Keir, Traci Lords, Donal LogueUSA , 1998 Seen: Originally seen theatrically, revisited on DVD November 17, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * Upon first viewing it was...
Is no one else creeped out by how Jeff Bridges looks like the perfect combination of Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson? Here, he plays Bad Blake, a once famous country singer who has fallen from grace and is trying to claw his way back up to relevancy. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a young reporter who falls for our hero, despite the fact that he is freakishly older than she is. Robert Duvall gets...
Supergroups are never as mind-blowingly awesome as you think they’ll be. The Traveling Wilburys, for example, seemed like a good idea, what with the combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. But the music was largely terrible . Same basically goes for the Highwaymen, with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings: great on paper, disappointing...
Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King share a unique bond, as King made her first public performance with Taylor some 40 years ago at LA’s famed venue the Troubadour . The multi-platinum selling duo will share the stage once again as they will embark on a world tour dubbed the Troubadour Reunion which is set to kick off in Melbourne, Australia in late March 2010. If your not into a...
JAY BOLOTIN Jay Bolotin Locust FOLK / AMERICANA LP Jay Bolotin's eponymous debut was released in 1970 on the Commonwealth United label, and was met with boundless praise from the country aristocracy, with the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner eulogising over his work, and Kris Kristofferson declaring the young Kentuckian "one of the three best songwriters in the country". This LP...
Rose Garden was an album released in 1971 by country singer Lynn Anderson. The album was the same name as the single she released in late 1970. The song went on to top the Country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five weeks, and reached #3 on the Pop charts in 1971. Anderson received a Grammy Award for the song for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The album went platinum in the...
Last Friday on The Let Out (our weekly show on East Village Radio) Carl came through to play James Brown and Ike and Tina and, like, Badfinger and we closed the whole night out with Kris Kristofferson. Shit got deep. Listen live to East Village Radio this and every Friday from 6-8pm EST, stream last [...]
Storyline: When Blade's mumm was bitten via through a vampire during gestation, she did not feel certain that she gave her son a momentous donation while failing: All the excellent vampire attributes in blend with the first-rate compassionate skills. Blade grew up to occur a vampire hunter for retribution on his mother's departur. The vampires, who managed to infiltrate as good a pro each and every...