Yes, I noticed that, too. Almost nobody mentioned it (I think Geddy Lee), but almost everybody on stage had, at some point, lost a band member or collaborator. In addition to those you mentioned, Chrissie Hynde, John Paul Jones, Joe Walsh, Brian May and Roger Taylor, and of course, Paul McCartney ... hell, Pat Smear…

Ages ago, when I was still living in Maine (my home state), there was a debate about what to put on the new license plates: a pine cone, a chickadee, a loon, etc. A lot of the debate boiled down to “your idea is only regional, but my idea represents the whole state.”

Yup, and yes, annoying.

The “Corman film school” is often painted as very dude-heavy (which, it was in a lot of ways), but may be also worth pointing out that Polly Platt, Gale Anne Hurd, Stephanie Rothman, among other women, got their start with him, too.

Coming soon, an academic collection on the F&F franchise that considers, among other things, its politics: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fullthrottle-franchise-9781501378904/

Nah, but Luscious Jackson’s really really good, and more people should listen to them, for sure!

I’m kinda the same, just saw it tonight. Some of the stuff I loved, particularly the use of B&W, and pretty much everything else about that whole sequence. I like the themes it was going for, and the kids were great. But I feel like Waititi, who I mostly really admire, doesn’t trust sentiment or emotion, or can’t let…

Thor: The Dark World was directed by Alan Taylor, not Branagh.

I think they should just give her all the acting awards for the way they’ve overlooked her!

I love the screaming histrionics of the new Jack White album - even when he repeats himself a bit, he finds new sounds and new song structures.

Yeah, particularly because the review’s inherent criticisms of the needle drops seem to be that they don’t help tie the film together. I’m as tired of rampant needle dropping as the next guy (is the next guy tired of them? I am!) - but the two aspects of them that I find most egregious are when they’re reaching for a…

Dublin, Ireland. Came out in wide release here, last week I think. 

I had a very different reaction to this, found it a cracker-jack little horror that wasn’t super scary, but very creepy and thought it connected everything really well.

Eight Men Out, both the book and film, are fantastic - and yeah, agreed about Shoeless Joe - not sure why he’d be expected to be menacing.

He glides into the frame, and all of a sudden you’re in a completely different movie. 

His good side was revealed to the audience, but has it ever been revealed to Jimmy and Kim? Much of the time we witness Howard’s goodness, or that his cruelty towards Jimmy was largely Chuck-inspired, Jimmy and Kim are not around. So while we may perceive him as better than they think, they’ve had very few reasons to…

Yes, and Mikey and Nicky as well (although, based on some reports, her original cut of A New Leaf was as good, if darker, than the released version, and Mikey and Nicky even got the benefit of a quasi-director’s cut that most agree is better than the version Paramount released). At the same time though, many of the…

A pretty good write-up here. I’d say misogyny played much more than a parenthetical role - particularly regarding May’s treatment/career post-Ishtar. There were a ton of ego-driven, “auteurist” flops in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s (Heaven’s Gate, but also New York, New York; Sorcerer; One from the Heart; Second-Hand…

I know that wordy summaries have de rigueur around this place for a while, but to lose Donna for this, and without a word of mention over her parting . . . such a shame.

Good luck, Tatiana - great album, excellent review!