My Generation documentary review: when London was swinging
A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.
Paul McCartney
The Last Shaman documentary review: pharma madness
Tragic hipster indulges in the tribal Amazonian divine. Credulous, sophomoric garbage full of the slick salesmanship of a vaguely spiritual sneaker commercial.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years documentary review: yeah yeah yeah
There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all.
imagine a David Cronenberg Return of the Jedi (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Michael Bay is rebooting Transformers (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Nowhere Boy (review)
Oh, we already know how it ends! John Lennon starts a band and ends up bigger than God. Before that, though… whew. There’s a whole lotta psychosexual stuff packed into Nowhere Boy, the tale of Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool, which may or may not be true, but it sure makes for a smashing film.
trailer break: ‘Nowhere Boy’
Tomorrow would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. It is a crime against humanity that he is not still with us.
question of the day: Have we finally entered the post-satire world?
I woke up this morning to the news that BP has requested that the hilarilous Twitter feed for “BP Public Relations” label itself a parody. It seemed, to my eyes, to be so obviously a parody that no one could mistake it for the real thing, but BP felt otherwise. Via MediaBistro: Twitter VP communications … more…
dream cast: hypothetical ’A Hard Day’s Night’ remake
It’s still Thursday for a little while, and that means it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week I’m stretching a bit to include something that’s not quite 80s but impacted Gen Xers a lot as kids: A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 Beatles movie that … more…
Yellow Submarine movie review: peace, man
Remember flower power? Remember when love and rock ‘n’ roll were gonna save the world? Me neither. So much has changed in the 32 years since Yellow Submarine was released…
