Bryan Hood
J.J. Abrams's akwardly-titled “Star Trek Into Darkness” is the first film that hasn't made me regret taking on the task of seeing all this summer's blockbusters. The twelfth movie in the beloved sci-fi franchise, and second installment in Abrams's reboot, is...
There’s a cute bait and switch at the beginning of this week’s “Mad Men.” Along with the title, “The Crash,” and the opening scene, one which shows a terrified Ken Cosgrove driving himself and some drunken Chevy execs into oncoming headlights, it seems as if...
Last week, I mentioned that “Iron Man 3” felt overly focus-grouped. The filmmakers, it seems, were so busy trying to appeal to everyone that they ended up with a movie that was hard for anyone to actually care about. It’s a problem that many blockbusters fall...
About an hour into “Iron Man 3,” my excitement over my assignment to see all of this summer’s blockbusters and write about the experience had dimmed considerably. That couldn’t have been further from the case early last week, when I pored through the summer...
Since breaking through with their 2007 “Cryptograms,” Deerhunter has been a fixture on the indie rock scene. The band, currently comprised of Moses Archuleta, Frankie Broyles, Josh McKay, Lockett Pundt, and, of course, frontman...
The release of “Iron Man 3” marks the beginning of summer blockbuster season. The next few months will be filled with huge popcorn flicks with even larger budgets, and if we’re lucky, one or two of them might turn out to be more than mindless dreck. Though we...
It’s April, which means it’s kick-off time for music festival season. First up, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, a must-attend event for live music fans (despite the fact that it takes place in the middle of the desert), opening Friday. Like...
Success did not come immediately to Odd Future leader Tyler, The Creator. The 22-year-old rapper and the rest of the collective (whose member’s are primarily in their late-teens and early-20s) had been putting out music for free on the Internet...
David McVicar’s production of George Frederic Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” makes its Metropolitan Opera debut tonight, the first of 10 showings between now and May 10. The opera, which focuses the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, stars...
Director Derek Cianfrance went 12 years between his first two feature films, “Brother Tied,” which he says “no one saw,” and the Oscar nominated examination of a disintegrating relationship, 2010’s “Blue Valentine.” Fortunately, the wait for his...
