If all Steve Albini ever did with music was complain about it, he still would have reigned as one of its most brilliant provocateurs. But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor. “I like noise,” he declared in a hugely influential 1986 manifesto in the fanzine Forced Exposure. “I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin. I wanna feel it whipping through me like a fucking jolt. We’re so dilapidated and...
- 5/9/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Ari Aster’s first two films, 2018’s “Hereditary” and 2019’s “Midsommar,” cultivated the young director enough cachet for A24 to hand him a blank check for “Beau is Afraid,” his “Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings’” about the psychological horror of visiting your mother. The three-hour horror-comedy epic is the indie studio’s most expensive movie to date. Starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the stunted and anxiety-ridden Beau of the title, the movie defies easy categorization and is, expectedly, inspiring awe and disgust in nearly equal measure – often within individual viewers.
Beau lives in an urban hellscape that approximates what “New York City looked like in the mind of Travis Bickle and Bernhard Goetz” and is in a persistent state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it finally does, it’s a chandelier on top of his mother’s head (it wouldn’t be an Aster film...
Beau lives in an urban hellscape that approximates what “New York City looked like in the mind of Travis Bickle and Bernhard Goetz” and is in a persistent state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. When it finally does, it’s a chandelier on top of his mother’s head (it wouldn’t be an Aster film...
- 4/14/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.”
-“This Be the Verse,” Philip Larkin
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
–Norman Bates
Someone may want to start a Kickstarter for Ari Aster’s therapy bills.
In a mere two films, the 36-year-old writer-director has established himself as a next-gen horrormeister, and a genuine auteur in an age full of throne-seeking pretenders. Hereditary (2018), a family...
They may not mean to, but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.”
-“This Be the Verse,” Philip Larkin
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
–Norman Bates
Someone may want to start a Kickstarter for Ari Aster’s therapy bills.
In a mere two films, the 36-year-old writer-director has established himself as a next-gen horrormeister, and a genuine auteur in an age full of throne-seeking pretenders. Hereditary (2018), a family...
- 4/11/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
At long last, we're finally getting more details about the highly anticipated "Joker" sequel, "Joker: Folie à Deux" - starting with behind-the-scenes photos from the movie's set.
On March 26, new photos of Joaquin Phoenix filming the sequel in New York City emerged, showing a glimpse of the Joker back in action. The images come a day after photos of Lady Gaga - who was officially announced as part of the cast in August 2022 - in the midst of filming appeared, seemingly confirming her rumored role as Harley Quinn. In the pictures, the "Poker Face" singer was seen wearing a red jacket over a white-and-black patterned blouse paired with a black skirt - a much more subtle costume than the one Margot Robbie wore during her time playing the character in "Birds of Prey," "Suicide Squad," and "The Suicide Squad," but still true to the DC character's comic-book roots.
It seems...
On March 26, new photos of Joaquin Phoenix filming the sequel in New York City emerged, showing a glimpse of the Joker back in action. The images come a day after photos of Lady Gaga - who was officially announced as part of the cast in August 2022 - in the midst of filming appeared, seemingly confirming her rumored role as Harley Quinn. In the pictures, the "Poker Face" singer was seen wearing a red jacket over a white-and-black patterned blouse paired with a black skirt - a much more subtle costume than the one Margot Robbie wore during her time playing the character in "Birds of Prey," "Suicide Squad," and "The Suicide Squad," but still true to the DC character's comic-book roots.
It seems...
- 3/27/2023
- by Pallavi Bhadu
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment is going big on Loudmouth. The company has acquired North American rights to the documentary about the Rev. Al Sharpton, and plans a December 9 theatrical release for the film just as Oscar shortlist voting rolls around.
The film directed by Josh Alexander held its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, examining an activist, commentator and occasional political candidate who has been a major part of American life for almost 40 years.
“Sharpton has been a polarizing figure, inspiring both love and hate on local and national stages,” a release for the film stated. “Chronicling his work for social change from the streets of 1980s Brooklyn to 2020s Minneapolis, Loudmouth presents never-before-seen footage of the social justice titan on the frontlines, in the media as well as in the corridors of power, to paint an intimate and revealing portrait of a tireless warrior who has never...
The film directed by Josh Alexander held its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, examining an activist, commentator and occasional political candidate who has been a major part of American life for almost 40 years.
“Sharpton has been a polarizing figure, inspiring both love and hate on local and national stages,” a release for the film stated. “Chronicling his work for social change from the streets of 1980s Brooklyn to 2020s Minneapolis, Loudmouth presents never-before-seen footage of the social justice titan on the frontlines, in the media as well as in the corridors of power, to paint an intimate and revealing portrait of a tireless warrior who has never...
- 9/28/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
I am the absolute last person to defend an attempt of a Hollywood studio, a superhero movie, or a director and actor so privileged they have the industry and all of its riches at their feet. The budgets of my four completed films range from $40,000 to $5,000,000 — and the budget of my current project hovers somewhere in between. I believe tentpoles have ruined American cinema and the glut of mediocre content in episodic television has made scrolling through titles often as interesting as watching the actual shows.
But I thought “Joker” was a near-masterpiece, an opera of raw, gritty emotion, a stunningly dark and artful gaze into the rich delusion of tragedy. It is not a perfect film, and — as some critics have said — it is dangerous, but it is entirely more dangerous to label it as some kind of call to arms for white rage in this country, or to...
But I thought “Joker” was a near-masterpiece, an opera of raw, gritty emotion, a stunningly dark and artful gaze into the rich delusion of tragedy. It is not a perfect film, and — as some critics have said — it is dangerous, but it is entirely more dangerous to label it as some kind of call to arms for white rage in this country, or to...
- 10/9/2019
- by Tim Sutton
- Indiewire
Bronson’s Loose Again!: On the Set with Charles Bronson is author Paul Talbot’s all-new companion volume to his acclaimed Bronson’s Loose!: The Making of the ‘Death Wish’ Films. His new book reveals more information on the Death Wish series and also details the complex histories behind eighteen other Charles Bronson movies. Documented herein are fascinating tales behind some of the finest Bronson films of the mid-1970s (including Hard Times and From Noon Till Three); his big-budget independent epics Love And Bullets and Cabo Blanco; his lesser-known, underrated dramas Borderline and Act Of Vengeance; his notorious sleaze/action Cannon Films classics of the 80s (including 10 To Midnight, Murphy’S Law and Kinjite: Forbidden Sunjects); the numerous unmade projects he was attached to; and his TV movies of the 90s (including The Sea Wolf). Exhaustively researched, the book features over three dozen exclusive, candid interviews including...
- 6/27/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Everyone’s favorite Instagram celebrity Lindsay Lohan uploaded a photograph of herself dressed in the style of Sharon Tate on Thursday. You know, the wife of Roman Polanski who was brutally murdered in the Hollywood Hills by Charles Manson? That Sharon Tate. Also, it was Manson’s 81st birthday on Thursday, which was clearly the inspiration for this "homage." Lindsay. Girl.Lohan has a history of morbidly charged photos. Like her knife-wielding photo shoot with Vanessa Minnillo that leaked online in 2007, where each woman held a butcher knife to the other's throat and duckfaced at the camera. Or her blood-slathered boudoir–cum–crime scene photos taken by Tyler Shields. Or the photos Polaroid enthusiast Terry Richardson took of her with a gun to her head. This cover of Radar looked tame once upon a time, but now you have to wonder did she actually go Bernhard Goetz on some paps?...
- 11/13/2015
- by Ira Madison III
- Vulture
Peter Bradshaw looks back at the uneven and often controversial career of Michael Winner, who has died aged 77
'You don't look so bad – here's another!" With these reported words in 1984, the once notorious "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz put another bullet into a mugger he'd shot on a New York subway train. It was a sensational incident which briefly rewakened the gun debate in the Us, but for Goetz resulted only in an illegal firearm conviction: a jury found him not guilty of attempted murder and assault. There was no doubt which movie was foremost in the minds of both press and public: the rape-revenge picture Death Wish, made 10 years before by the smart and workmanlike British director Michael Winner.
Goetz had sensationally made Winner's fantasy a reality. The film spawned a number of sequels, the second of which, Death Wish 3 in 1985, was explicitly inspired by Goetz. In the original,...
'You don't look so bad – here's another!" With these reported words in 1984, the once notorious "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz put another bullet into a mugger he'd shot on a New York subway train. It was a sensational incident which briefly rewakened the gun debate in the Us, but for Goetz resulted only in an illegal firearm conviction: a jury found him not guilty of attempted murder and assault. There was no doubt which movie was foremost in the minds of both press and public: the rape-revenge picture Death Wish, made 10 years before by the smart and workmanlike British director Michael Winner.
Goetz had sensationally made Winner's fantasy a reality. The film spawned a number of sequels, the second of which, Death Wish 3 in 1985, was explicitly inspired by Goetz. In the original,...
- 1/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If you have a confession, then you have a conviction. At least that was the open-and-shut premise at the heart of the Central Park Jogger case, a crime story that inflamed racist paranoia in late ’80s New York City, stoking sensationalistic media coverage and frenzied outrage in the era of Bernard Goetz, Tawana Brawley, and the Bensonhurst murder, when the city was gripped with tensions that seemed ready to combust at any moment. After a white Wall Street banker from the Upper East Side was raped, beaten, and left for dead on April 19, 1989, while out for her nightly …...
- 11/21/2012
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
From 1993 to 2005, David Milch and Steven Bochco’s cop drama NYPD Blue was the nakedest, swearing-est show on television. But as we see in this latest installment of Criminal Complex’s episode-by-episode recap of the series, just because there was a lot of sex, violence, and curse words, that doesn’t mean NYPD Blue was without depth, character, and cultural relevance.
Season 1, Episode 4
True Confessions
Original Air Date: October 12th, 1993
“If I had more bullets, I would have shot ‘em all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets.”
-Bernhard Goetz
“Don’t be angry.”
-Detective John Kelly, 15th squad
Anger is something I’ve had to deal with my entire life. Raised by an unrepentant hothead from a long line of unrepentant hotheads, I have had the emotional life of Bruce Banner, going from meekly brainy guy to raging monster at the drop of a hat,...
Season 1, Episode 4
True Confessions
Original Air Date: October 12th, 1993
“If I had more bullets, I would have shot ‘em all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets.”
-Bernhard Goetz
“Don’t be angry.”
-Detective John Kelly, 15th squad
Anger is something I’ve had to deal with my entire life. Raised by an unrepentant hothead from a long line of unrepentant hotheads, I have had the emotional life of Bruce Banner, going from meekly brainy guy to raging monster at the drop of a hat,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
Infamously known as the NYC subway vigilante after shooting four men who tried to mug him back in 1984, Bernhard Goetz was spotted walking the streets of Manhattan armed with only a bag of groceries this weekend.Goetz was eventually found guilty of criminal possession of a weapon and served eight months in jail.While he did run for mayor of NYC in 2001 and even appeared in a few small films, the 64-year-old currently owns a store called Vigilante Electronics.
- 2/28/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The second audio excerpt from Stephen King's upcoming Full Dark, No Stars is now available from the book's official website, this time from "Big Driver", along with author King's liner notes for that novella as well as "1922". In addition, we have expanded synopses for both stories.
As a reminder, the narrators for the audio edition of Full Dark, No Stars are Craig Wasson (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors) and Jessica Hecht (Wes Craven's My Soul to Take). To listen to the excerpt, either click the image to the right or visit the official Full Dark, No Stars website, where you can also read along with the excerpt.
You'll find the liner notes below the two new synopses (expanded versions of "Fair Extension" and "A Good Marriage" are forthcoming) and a short commercial:
"1922" - “I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger…” writes...
As a reminder, the narrators for the audio edition of Full Dark, No Stars are Craig Wasson (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors) and Jessica Hecht (Wes Craven's My Soul to Take). To listen to the excerpt, either click the image to the right or visit the official Full Dark, No Stars website, where you can also read along with the excerpt.
You'll find the liner notes below the two new synopses (expanded versions of "Fair Extension" and "A Good Marriage" are forthcoming) and a short commercial:
"1922" - “I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger…” writes...
- 10/20/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Blue Bloods (Friday, 10/9c, CBS)
Looks like CBS has a new hit on its hands, with this well-cast and smartly conceived family/police drama. In the second episode, the Reagans debate a weighty issue — the modern urban vigilante (think Bernhard Goetz) — when a good Samaritan takes matters into his own hands in going after a criminal terrorizing people on the subway.
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Looks like CBS has a new hit on its hands, with this well-cast and smartly conceived family/police drama. In the second episode, the Reagans debate a weighty issue — the modern urban vigilante (think Bernhard Goetz) — when a good Samaritan takes matters into his own hands in going after a criminal terrorizing people on the subway.
Read More >...
- 9/30/2010
- by Matt Roush
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Aftermath with William Shatner (Monday, 10/9c, Bio) As he proved in his Shatner's Raw Nerve series, the future star of $#*! My Dad Says is no slouch when it comes to interviewing people who interest him. In this new series, he catches up with people who became famous or infamous overnight. First subject: Bernard Goetz, the so-called "Subway Vigilante" who shot four men he alleged were intending to mug him on a New York subway train in 1984...
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- 8/2/2010
- by Matt Roush
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Filed under: TV Previews
Monday, August 2
'The Bachelorette' (8Pm, ABC) season 6 finale
Rumor has it that Ali picks ... okay, never mind the rumors; there'll be no spoilers here. But, obviously, there's no clear cut winner as the bachelorette and her two finalists -- Roberto and Chris L. -- head to Bora Bora, the beautiful location that's supposed to inspire Ali to make her big decision. The drama has already been high this season, first with the d-bag that was Justin "Rated R" Rego, then with the wimpy, girlfriend-havin' Frank. And things don't get any easier for Ali tonight, as her family also joins her in Bora Bora, and, when they bond with both of her fellas, her decision becomes just that more difficult. The upside: there'll be plenty to talk about in the post-finale 'After the Final Rose' special (10Pm).
'Lie to Me' - The Foster...
Monday, August 2
'The Bachelorette' (8Pm, ABC) season 6 finale
Rumor has it that Ali picks ... okay, never mind the rumors; there'll be no spoilers here. But, obviously, there's no clear cut winner as the bachelorette and her two finalists -- Roberto and Chris L. -- head to Bora Bora, the beautiful location that's supposed to inspire Ali to make her big decision. The drama has already been high this season, first with the d-bag that was Justin "Rated R" Rego, then with the wimpy, girlfriend-havin' Frank. And things don't get any easier for Ali tonight, as her family also joins her in Bora Bora, and, when they bond with both of her fellas, her decision becomes just that more difficult. The upside: there'll be plenty to talk about in the post-finale 'After the Final Rose' special (10Pm).
'Lie to Me' - The Foster...
- 8/1/2010
- by Kim Potts
- Aol TV.
Filed under: TV Previews
Monday, August 2
'The Bachelorette' (8Pm, ABC) season 6 finale
Rumor has it that Ali picks ... okay, never mind the rumors; there'll be no spoilers here. But, obviously, there's no clear cut winner as the bachelorette and her two finalists -- Roberto and Chris L. -- head to Bora Bora, the beautiful location that's supposed to inspire Ali to make her big decision. The drama has already been high this season, first with the d-bag that was Justin "Rated R" Rego, then with the wimpy, girlfriend-havin' Frank. And things don't get any easier for Ali tonight, as her family also joins her in Bora Bora, and, when they bond with both of her fellas, her decision becomes just that more difficult. The upside: there'll be plenty to talk about in the post-finale 'After the Final Rose' special (10Pm).
'Lie to Me' - The Foster...
Monday, August 2
'The Bachelorette' (8Pm, ABC) season 6 finale
Rumor has it that Ali picks ... okay, never mind the rumors; there'll be no spoilers here. But, obviously, there's no clear cut winner as the bachelorette and her two finalists -- Roberto and Chris L. -- head to Bora Bora, the beautiful location that's supposed to inspire Ali to make her big decision. The drama has already been high this season, first with the d-bag that was Justin "Rated R" Rego, then with the wimpy, girlfriend-havin' Frank. And things don't get any easier for Ali tonight, as her family also joins her in Bora Bora, and, when they bond with both of her fellas, her decision becomes just that more difficult. The upside: there'll be plenty to talk about in the post-finale 'After the Final Rose' special (10Pm).
'Lie to Me' - The Foster...
- 8/1/2010
- by Kim Potts
- Aol TV.
I'm not the only person who loves William Shatner -- Bio Channel does, too, so they're giving him yet another show. Shatner's already got his talk show, Shatner's Raw Nerve, which will begin a third season of thirteen episodes towards the end of this year and now it will be joined by Shatner's Aftermath, which will premiere with six episodes this fall.
Aftermath focuses on the lives of people who became famous overnight, such as Jessica Lynch, Mary Kay Letourneau, the Weaver Family from the 1992 Ruby Ridge Siege, victims of the DC sniper, "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz and the Unabomber. It doesn't appear that any of these people will actually be interviewed for the series; rather, we'll see archive footage and what are sure to be some awesome re-enactments along with, according to the press release, "Shatner's sharp wit and sense of humor."
Because if there's anyone who's definitely in...
Aftermath focuses on the lives of people who became famous overnight, such as Jessica Lynch, Mary Kay Letourneau, the Weaver Family from the 1992 Ruby Ridge Siege, victims of the DC sniper, "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz and the Unabomber. It doesn't appear that any of these people will actually be interviewed for the series; rather, we'll see archive footage and what are sure to be some awesome re-enactments along with, according to the press release, "Shatner's sharp wit and sense of humor."
Because if there's anyone who's definitely in...
- 5/6/2010
- UGO TV
A lot of shows promise "a new spin," but when you add William Shatner into the mix, it's actually true. Among the new shows announced by Bio Channel today: Shatner's Aftermath. In each episode, he'll take us back to dramatic events that "riveted the nation" and speak with the newsmakers themselves and/or their family members, using his "sharp intellect and sense of humor" to find out what their lives have been like since they made headlines. The subjects of the six one-hour episodes: Jessica Lynch, The DC Sniper Victims, The Unabomber, Bernhard Goetz, Mary Kay Letourneau, and the Weaver Family of Ruby Ridge.
- 5/5/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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