When the British Invasion arrived in America in the mid-1960s, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and other bands introduced songs like “Little Red Rooster” and “Road Runner” to American teenagers who assumed they were originals. In fact, those bands’ catalogs were full of American R&b and blues classics from years in the past, originally written and recorded by black musicians such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddley, and others. Singers like John Lennon and Mick Jagger took more interest in this music than many listeners had at the time,...
- 2/19/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Every day, more and more films are added to the various streaming services out there, ranging from Netflix to YouTube, and are hitting the airwaves via movie-centric networks like TCM. Therefore, sifting through all of these pictures can be a tedious and often times confounding or difficult ordeal. But, that’s why we’re here. Every week, Joshua brings you five films to put at the top of your queue, add to your playlist, or grab off of VOD to make your weekend a little more eventful. Here is this week’s top five, in this week’s Armchair Vacation.
5. Forbidden Empire (VOD)
While fantasy narratives, period costuming and CGI effects are often left for either the studio Oscar bait season or the occasional Hollywood blockbuster, lower and lower budget indie releases are getting access to higher and higher quality below-the-line craft work. Take Oleg Stepchenko’s Forbidden Empire for example.
5. Forbidden Empire (VOD)
While fantasy narratives, period costuming and CGI effects are often left for either the studio Oscar bait season or the occasional Hollywood blockbuster, lower and lower budget indie releases are getting access to higher and higher quality below-the-line craft work. Take Oleg Stepchenko’s Forbidden Empire for example.
- 5/30/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
With The Expendables bringing 80s action movies back, Duncan salutes the homoerotic classic moments of the genre...
For those of us out there that consider ourselves action movie fans, there is one decade that stands above all others: the eighties. I think it's fairly safe to assume, as well, that it's unlikely to ever be surpassed in terms of the stars it held up.
You know the list of names by now. Just cast an eye at The Expendables poster and then add the likes of Dudikoff, Seagal, Van Damme, Norris, Swayze and Steve James (may they both rest in peace), yet there are still more.
In retrospect, that decade also seems slightly innocent in the way it viewed the world. AIDS awareness was only just starting, homosexuality was still very much misunderstood and taboo, and as the Reagan era tried to swing Hollywood to the right, it very much...
For those of us out there that consider ourselves action movie fans, there is one decade that stands above all others: the eighties. I think it's fairly safe to assume, as well, that it's unlikely to ever be surpassed in terms of the stars it held up.
You know the list of names by now. Just cast an eye at The Expendables poster and then add the likes of Dudikoff, Seagal, Van Damme, Norris, Swayze and Steve James (may they both rest in peace), yet there are still more.
In retrospect, that decade also seems slightly innocent in the way it viewed the world. AIDS awareness was only just starting, homosexuality was still very much misunderstood and taboo, and as the Reagan era tried to swing Hollywood to the right, it very much...
- 8/10/2010
- Den of Geek
There are certain films that always seem to appear on TV near the witching hour, and often after several beers. Here’s a list of the ten best…
Picture the scenario: it's past eleven, you're back from the pub and feeling suitably refreshed. But before you head off to bed, you decide to turn the television for a spot of bleary-eyed channel hopping. And when you do, it's inevitably one of the following movies that appears on the screen...
Red Heat (1988)
Walter Hill's cheeky reworking of his own 1982 movie 48 Hrs, Red Heat is the consummate post-pub movie. You can only vaguely recollect the plot, the action sequences are similar enough to other films that you can easily muddle it up with half a dozen other 80s violent cop movies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Russian lawman Ivan Danko, who provides a stony-faced foil to James Belushi's wise-cracking Chicago cop,...
Picture the scenario: it's past eleven, you're back from the pub and feeling suitably refreshed. But before you head off to bed, you decide to turn the television for a spot of bleary-eyed channel hopping. And when you do, it's inevitably one of the following movies that appears on the screen...
Red Heat (1988)
Walter Hill's cheeky reworking of his own 1982 movie 48 Hrs, Red Heat is the consummate post-pub movie. You can only vaguely recollect the plot, the action sequences are similar enough to other films that you can easily muddle it up with half a dozen other 80s violent cop movies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Russian lawman Ivan Danko, who provides a stony-faced foil to James Belushi's wise-cracking Chicago cop,...
- 7/19/2010
- Den of Geek
An employee of David Copperfield was hospitalized Wednesday with a broken arm after one of the illusionist's tricks went awry on stage. The unidentified employee was assisting Copperfield during the "fan illusion" and got his arm caught in the fan. In the illusion, Copperfield appears to walk through the fan and disappear as he turns to smoke. The show, dubbed An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion, took place in Las Vegas at MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre. "This is a trick David has done over 3,000 times," executive producer Chris Kenner says. "This was a freak accident." The show was stopped after the mishap,...
- 12/18/2008
- by Mark Gray
- PEOPLE.com
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