“Shutter Island”: trust no one
Boston Harbour Islands, 1954. Music, dreadful and foreboding, starts up like impending doom. A ferry is lashed by slate grey weather, the opening bars of an orchestral hurricane to come. Puking his...
Category: Arts & Literature
Glenn Beck’s attack on Bruce Springsteen: pathetic
Come back home to the refinery/Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"/I go down to see the V.A. man/He said "Son don't you understand" FOX News host Glenn Beck has set himself up as a sort of...
“The Sun Behind The Clouds”: missed opportunity
To this jaded New Yorker, the recent political brouhaha surrounding Tibetan filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin’s “The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom” seems much...
“Green Zone”: Greengrass & Damon do it again
Iraq 2003. The “shock and awe” party is in full effect, tracer fire lights up the night sky and concussion blasts from “smart” bombs shake gilded masonry into the lap of the movie theatre....
Howard Stern on Gabourey Sidibe: hard facts
Howard Stern, in case you needed reminding, is the highest paid American radio personality & the ultimate media shock jock. On Monday, on his Sirius XM program with co-host Robin Quivers, he had...
Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow: “I’m the boss”
At the start of yet another American tour, Kirsty Evans had a chance to catch up with Arch Enemy vocalist Angela Gossow, one of the most ass-kicking women in metal. Having recently participated in an...
Status
Yearns for the porchlights of lovers not yet been but cannot also remove those who’ve been and gone. Lover- here-lover-now is tattooed in luminous ink on the thinnest skin of my chest, so no one...
Off The Endz: estate life
Growing up on a council estate in London, or any estate in the United Kingdom for that matter, can be alright for some, but for others, the disadvantages outweigh the good. Many people have a...
Writer’s Admonishment
Trailing scandal like a scarf, She's lost you neatly in the crowd. And that was the easy part. Today, people ask you for your signature. Last night, you autographed her collarbone. You should really...
Conor McPherson & Ciarán Hinds discuss “The Eclipse”
Writer/director Conor McPherson’s “The Eclipse,” based on a short story by Billy Roche, is a bittersweet romance with a gothic horror twist set in a sleepy Irish seaside town. The film...