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March 2010
The Archives
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03.13.10War StoriesIn the current issue of Hot Press you'll read Nick Kent describe how rock journalism in the 1970s was akin to being embedded with a military unit. Flip the analogy around and consider that the last ten years of war reportage have been akin to rock journalism dispatched from the bunker. Mark Boal reported on the Iraq conflict for Playboy and later penned two screenplays based on his experiences. His 2004 article 'Death and Dishonor', the story of Richard T. Davis, an Iraq War veteran who was murdered upon his return home in 2003, was adapted for Paul Haggis's film In ...
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03.13.10It’s Better In PaperTo coincide with the paperback publication of John the Revelator, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have put the following online. http://hmhbooks.com/itsbetterinpaper/john-the-revelator.shtml
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03.12.10The Sounds of WatchmenThere were more than a few things wrong with Zack Snyder's Watchmen, but even the Alan Moore devotees of our acquaintance had to admit it was an honest crack at a masterpiece, and a genuinely strange film. Inspired use of music too. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/573XmVOdD2Q" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/eXNc53rIFe8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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03.12.10Fionn HouseShadow Of An Empire Fionn Regan (Heavenly) Fionn's life in a stolen moment, rendered newsreel flashback stylee: Tousle haired Bray singer-songwriter relocates to Brighton, finds a mirror image of his own childhood in that rainy out-of-sorts resort climate, begins writing subtle and impressionistic low-key tone poems that have as much to do with experimental film fragments as bard school, puts out a couple of EPs, signs to Bella Union and eventually releases the seaside verite minor masterpiece that is The End Of History. The record gets shortlisted for the Mercury and the Choice, generates a plethora of four-star reviews, and before you know ...
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03.07.10Mark Linkous RIPRolling Stone reports on the suicide of Mark Linkous. God rest his soul. http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/06/sparklehorses-mark-linkous-takes-own-life/ [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AP8P694v-NM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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03.07.10Go Ask AliceFather Murphy and his three offspring attended Alice In Wonderland yesterday. First unanimous vote since Coraline. We liked it a lot. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/WANNqr-vcx0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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03.04.10Twelve Steps to HellIf one wasn't aware of the graft required to produce a debut novel as assured, controlled and expertly executed as The Twelve, one might be tempted to dub Stuart Neville one lucky little bugger. The book comes bearing a blurb from James Ellroy (the two writers share an agent: "I've exchanged a couple of emails with him, and even the emails are very James Ellroy!" Neville says, "my agent absolutely adores him as a person"), there's talk of a serious film deal, and the book was selected not just as one of HP's novels of last year, but the best ...
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03.04.10A big shout out…... and a shamless plug for the Brothers McNulty. Get that education into ya. http://www.grindstutors.com
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03.01.10J the R and Bobby De NiroBob De Niro meets John Devine. Here's Tara Brady's Hot Press review of Everybody's Fine... EVERYBODY’S FINE (Directed by Kirk Jones. Starring Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore. 99mins. Cert 12A. Opens February 26th) Ripe, sentimental and surprisingly effective, it’s apposite that Paul McCartney wrote the song that plays over the end credits of Everybody’s Fine. Like that artist, the film is old-fashioned and predictable, a rehashing of themes and motifs that have been more powerfully rendered in Tokyo Story and elsewhere. Robert De Niro, putting in his most convincing, albeit sleepy performance in a decade, plays a lonely widower who visits his grown up children - Kate ...