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LAist (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Lissie will be performing tonight at the Orpheum Theatre | Picture via Lissie's Myspace Our Pick: Ray LaMontagne, Lissie @ Orpheum Theatre Tonight legendary New Jersey-based horror punk progenitors the Misfits ( LAist Review ) will be headlining the Key Club . Eisley , a familial, Texan indie rock quintet, are poised to grace the Troubadour with none other than Miniature Tigers (LAist Interview ,...
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. After four long months of scheduling difficulties, Jay and I finally managed to sit down with Kurt and Andrew from Row Three to record the latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time around, we engage in a pretty lengthy discussion...
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
No one does high concept better than CBS' Medium , and the show comes up with another fun one tonight. Over Halloween, the psychic series took on the zombie flick Night of the Living Dead . Tonight, it's John Carpenter's sci-fi classic They Live . And while we won't see any aliens invading or star Roddy Rowdy Piper, the inspiration is there thanks to a special pair of sunglasses. Imagine looking at...
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SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The latest issue of Wax Poetics [my favourite music magazine] is out now – with features on Curtis Mayfield and Spike Lee. The issue includes: Re:Discovery – Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter Roc Raida – The Grand Master Shadows And Phonographs – This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics Brotherman [...]
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Yes, this title is a pun on two previous Twitch-O-Meters ( this one and this one ). We all know and love stories about fledgling filmmakers scraping together the tiniest of budgets and managing to create an intriguing, sometimes even phenomenally successful movie with it. John Carpenter worked wonders with "Dark Star" and "The Assault of Precinct 13" on a tiny budget. Even the...
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prefixmag (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Word is that this Black Thought track appeared on a mixtape from several years ago that never really saw the light of day. Until now. "The Professional," a never-before-heard cut by the Roots frontman, features Black Thought spitting with his trademark tenacity and ultimate breath control. The grimy, almost-gloomy beat ain't too shabby either, mostly thanks to the John Carpenter-ish synths....
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Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
As much as critics and movie fans seem to hate on remakes and reboots, you have to admit that a lot can be done with a remake in talented hands. Examples of this extend back to John Carpenter’s work on The Thing to David Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s possible. It can be done right. Which is [...]
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
HEALTH will be performing tonight at the Smell | Picture via HEALTH's Myspace Our Pick: HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Tearist, Man's Assassination, Man @ The Smell Tonight Long Island-bred post-hardcore act Glassjaw will be headlining the Mayan Theater in Downtown with none other than Seal Beach-based quartet RX Bandits ( LAist Review ). Georgia-bred singer-songwriter/producer Butch Walker is poised to grace...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
It's always frustrating to see a director missing the point. Manly and self-righteous though most of eighties action cinema was, the best films of the decade gave the audience both ludicrously violent wish-fulfilment and a genuine sense of gleefully adolescent hero-worship. Few viewers could seriously believe they actually were Arnie, or Sly, or Dolph but many wanted to be, dispensing gruesomely inventive...
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is an enjoyable mash-up of classic Westerns, Saturday-morning serials, and Chinese wuxia than any of the Indiana Jones movies, with Kurt Russell in full bloom as Carpenter's de rigueur hard-drinkin', hard-gamblin', wise-crackin' loner...
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Final Girl (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I've talked alot about jerks here at Final Girl. Usually I'm referring to people who disagree with my opinions or don't like the things I like or something- you know, Paul Reiser fans and the such. After all, this is The Internet, and therefore anyone who doesn't think exactly as I do is a jerk. Today, however, I want to focus on horror movie jerks. I've talked about those in the past as well, but...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Dark Star is a 1974 science fiction/comedy film, the first feature film of John Carpenter . At about 21 minutes in there's a delightful little musical instrument. This is the 2nd science fiction film I can remember seeing that includes surfing in the plot. Watch it online: Moria gives it 4 stars and says, "The film has this sense of deadpan humour that just sits there and keeps building to the...
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Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From Courier Mail AU THEY have stalked us for centuries, the night creatures preying on the blood of the living, beings once like us but who now crave only breathing, bleeding flesh. They are the whispered tales of unspeakable things of ancient myth, the dark and brooding monsters of folklore who feast upon us. In popular culture they are the 19th-century vampires of Bram Stoker's Dracula, from the...
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The Sun - Tabloid Lies (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Sun today carried a story about the five British soldiers . There's nothing controversial about it. It just an article about the soldiers and some of the relatives that have to pick up the pieces after losing a loved one. But even when The Sun is being nice and sensitive it still can't help but have a little dig. One of the soldiers, Warrant Officer Darren Chant, was expecting to become a father...
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Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Superheroes with toy franchise tie-ins get a lot of heat... unless critics had a real lively sense of humor they trashed both TRANSFORMERS (as well as WOLVERINE, TERMINATOR SALVATION, etc.) but GI JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA does everything right. AND it gets a lot less things wrong. One can only hope the Michael Bays, Brett Ratners and McGs pay attention when watching JOE (though its director, Stephen...
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youloveit | 04/08/2009
Plot: Capitalizing on his credit conj at the time that the draw of 'Hogan's Heroes,' Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling sou of the 60s and 70s with luxuriate in, having affairs with many women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to instrument his exploits, an clique that may very well obtain led to his massacre in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel allowance...
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