Month: May 2015
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Best Coast – California Nights
LA duo Best Coast have released their latest album California Nights. Is it an album of summer anthems designed to bring California to our doorsteps? Best Coast first came to my attention back in 2010 when their debut album tried to sneak its way onto my Best Of list for the year. While I appreciated…
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Sinister
In 2012, there was a little horror movie called Sinister that may have looked like throwaway horror fare, but was actually surprisingly effective and atmospheric. Sinister was a 2012 offering from modern horror writer/director Scott Derrickson that focuses around a writer and his family being haunted by an ancient Babylonian deity. Our main character is…
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road drops us into the bonkers action of George Miller’s post-apocalyptic wasteland. Is it great? Too thin? Too feminist? Not feminist enough? The look of a post-apocalyptic world had been so well defined by George Miller’s Mad Max series that it had slipped into utter cliché over the last 30 years. If…
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While We’re Young
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play two 40-somethings who meet a pair of young hipsters (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried), which shakes up their lifestyle. Noah Baumbach’s new film While We’re Young is a surprisingly pleasant comic romp that doubles down on familiar tropes usually absent in the filmmaker’s work but comes out on the…
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Y: The Last Man
Got about a minute? Then The Feedback Society Short Vlogs are for your short attention span consumption! Today, Jody talks about Y: The Last Man.
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Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
We take a look at a mid-career release from Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love, the follow up to the monstrously successful Born in the USA. Ah, Bruce. For too long, I have dismissed the Boss as ‘your dad’s music.’ Though it was the last time I had to ask who Bruce Springsteen was, I didn’t…
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Heckling Billy Crystal
Robert Barry Francos once insulted the famous comedian Billy Crystal at, of all places, a Dan Hill concert in New York City in the 70s. In 1975, just before the time I started going to CBGB, I was an undergrad. One of the friends I made there was a married woman named Sheryl who was…
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is an impressionistic documentary look at the dead rock star, amazing in some moments, but frustrating and overblown in others. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is a documentary about the rock star from Brett Morgen, who also co-directed the clever adaptation of Robert Evans’ book, The Kid Stays in the…