New this week on Popshifter: Part Four in Paul’s album-by-album articles on THE BAND appraises Cahoots; my (sorta) objective, glowing review of Redd Kross’s first album in 15 years, Researching The Blues; Paul reviews Paul Thorn’s What The Hell Is Goin’ On? using the phrase “smo’ chicken”; Cait provides a brief history of The Tubes in her review of the reissues of their albums Young & Rich and Now; Chelsea wants to like Jezzy & The Belles’ Compasses & Maps but is unable to; and Lisa has mixed feelings about Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers on DVD.
Features: Film Criticism - sexism in film criticism; what’s good & what’s bad about film criticism; watching movies & rewatching them.
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New this week on Popshifter: Paul calls The Very Best Of Sonny Rollins a “lovingly assembled” collection; J Howell thinks Jimbo Mathus’s new Blue Light EP would “benefit greatly from some sweat and whiskey”; Emily assesses the recently reissued albums of party pop princess Samantha Fox; I praise Anchor Bay’s recent reissue of superlative horror film The Entity on DVD and Blu-Ray; and Paul discusses violence and censorship in light of The Killer Inside Me.
Features: Videos from Jesca Hoop, The Indecent; the Jonah Lehrer scandal; Guy Adams and Twitterfail; Jay Rosen’s View from Nowhere; Terry Heaton and The Postmodern Journalist.
New this week on Popshifter: Jemiah explains why Laetitia Sadier’s Silencio is worth your time; I take critics to task on The Dark Knight Rises (again!); Chelsea chats with Glenn di Benedetto of Boston’s Parlour Bells; and Paul recommends The Very Best of Wes Montgomery.
Features: Trailers for Midnight Son, Jack and Diane, Flight; Cloud Atlas; The Equalizer on the big screen with Denzel Washington; Dracula on NBC with Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
New this week on Popshifter: our latest installment of the excellent series from Paul Casey on The Band’s discography: Stage Fright; a balanced review of the Cure For Pain doc on Morphine’s Mark Sandman by Chelsea; high praise from Cait on Joe Jackson’s tribute to Duke Ellington called (what else?) The Duke; Lisa provides her thoughts on the ways we watch TV shows now; I weigh in on the fanboy shenanigans erupting around early reviews of The Dark Knight Rises and Kevin Smith’s blowhard tendencies; plus I review The Dark Knight Rises (NO SPOILERS).
Features: Those less enthused about The Dark Knight Rises than I am; texting in theatres; general theater douchebaggery.
Let’s be honest: The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t need my review. People are going to see it anyway. But I need to write a review. After the midnight showing I felt overwhelmed, exuberant, humbled. I couldn’t stop talking and thinking about the movie. I got home after 3 a.m., exhausted but unable to sleep. That hasn’t happened since the first night I saw Fight Club in 1999. Before that, it was in 1998, because of the movie Velvet Goldmine, with none other than Christian Bale—but I’m getting ahead of (behind?) myself. You want to know about The Dark Knight Rises.
New this week on Popshifter: a follow up on Twilight and modern horror; reviews of Lex Hives, Keep The Beat: The Very Best of The English Beat, and the Looking Back box set; plus why Brave is great and a review of the new movie Red Lights. Plus…
Features: Terry Heaton’s Po Mo blog on social media & advertising.
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Features: More on Google takedown requests plus TRAILERS! Compliance, Horror Stories, The Tall Man, Wrath, After, Community, Citadel, and Resolution. Plus…
New on Popshifter this week: Part two of our continuing series on THE BAND’s discography (The Band); and a review of Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials on DVD.
Includes: Illegal downloads and that NPR intern; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo titles; Sitges International Fantastic Film Fest; Forever; TV news; the Supreme Court and indecency on TV
Includes: Big Black Delta; trailers for Sinister and V/H/S; Fantasia Fest; Xavier Dolan; Elysium; Snow Crash; Rian Johnson and 3D; film criticism and the “snark ages”
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Includes: I converted to 3D; Crush On Radio podcast; Love Or Whatever; digital film; Google and takedown requests; YouTube vs. Viacom; remakes and rehashings; the future of franchises is female.
