For the third day of Halloween, we take a look at crippling fear and claustrophobia in Neil Marshall’s UK nail-biter “The Descent”.
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bLISTerd Presents: Back To School: The Honorable Mentions
Here are a few movies that just missed the cut on our best school movies list. Is your favorite still missing?
bLISTerd Goes Back To School! The 10 Best School-Related Movies
It’s back to school time! The Popblerd staff (joined by the Popdose staff) counts down their favorite school-related films of all time.
Pass the Popcorn: Shut Up and Play the Hits
Shut Up and Play the Hits, documents the final performance of LCD Soundsystem. Check out our review!
Oscar Forget-Me-Nots on V-Day
The nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were announced last month, and the snubs still make me cry. OK, not really, but I’m still pissed. For starters, Michael Fassbender, who had been garnering attention for several breakthrough performances this year (not to mention going the full monty in one of them), was left off the Best Actor list for his work in Shame. Even more remarkable was how Leonardo DiCaprio was stiffed for his transformational work in J. Edgar. […]
A Much-Needed History Lesson: “Nice & Rough: Black Women In Rock”
I urge you to follow the Black Rock Coalition’s Facebook page . Not only is it important for us to preserve and extend our legacy, but they put together and promote some pretty cool stuff. Case in point… My buddy David Middleton often bemoans the lack of black female rock singers in contemporary music. The modern-day music industry has become so ingrained in formula that the thought of a sista belting to rock seems almost laughable, despite the fact that blues singers […]
Pass The Popcorn: Base Humor & the Decline of the R-Rated Comedy
2011 was not a good year for comedy. Arguably the best comedy of the year, “ Bridesmaids ” was, at its best, an adequate The Hangover -esque comedy for women and, at its worst, an unnecessarily long and meandering plot with a funny diarrhea scene somewhere in the middle (fecal-spoiler). The R-Rated comedy has had a checkered past, but now that the Judd Apatow-Renaissance is upon us (“ The 40 Year Old Virgin ,” “ Knocked Up “), the theater audience has been treated with some good and often great […]
The Viewfinder: Will “Men in Black III” Be Thrice As Nice?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaFEBI_L24] Will Smith has finally taken time out from forcing his kids to take over pop culture and is making his own path back to the box office: Columbia Pictures released the trailer to Men in Black III yesterday. Call it hyperbole, but Men in Black (1997) was the closest thing the ’90s had to Ghostbusters. A science fiction-heavy plot (based off a cult comic book series ), a comic actor poised for superstar status, a stupidly catchy theme song – it’s all there. MiB‘s retro-chic, World’s Fair style of spacemen and a story that made enough […]
Reading Is Fundamental…And So Are Movies: A Fan Says Goodbye to “Harry Potter”
With the Harry Potter saga officially wrapped up with the DVD release of “Deathly Hallows 2”, we look back at the film and literary phenomenon that’s captured the imagination of millions.
Pass the Popcorn: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Call me old fashioned, but sometimes I think the modern day slasher formula has ruined the contemporary horror film. While some movie makers adhere to the Hitchcockian pillars of suspense and atmosphere, it seems far easier to scare by showing rather than implying. On one hand I can understand: dread, especially of the supernatural variety, can be so difficult to manufacture consistently. It’s far easier, and far more instantly gratifying, to scare the audience on the most basic of grounds: […]
It’s Crazy Clown Time!: David Lynch Gets Set To Release Album
Through the years, David Lynch has worked in a variety of media – photography, sculpture, web series, furniture and his own line of coffee (no joke). But it’s Lynch’s film and television work for which he is best known, comprising a dossier of art house cult classics including Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and the Twin Peaks series (which at times, I still can’t believe aired on prime time network television). Music has always been central to Lynch’s film […]
Pass the Popcorn: Todd Phillips’ “The Hangover Part 2”
Let’s get this out of the way: yes, The Hangover Part 2 is more of the same. The title implies (correctly) that it can be viewed as merely an extension of the earlier film, as opposed to a brand-new one, and it hits every beat in its (already-worn) formula succinctly. If you didn’t much care for The Hangover, that sentence should function as a perfectly serviceable review for you, and anything else I have to say is merely window-dressing. Not […]