Ninety seconds into La La La, a track from Jay Brannan’s new album Rob Me Blind, he suddenly veers into something approaching 2000′s college rock, when the lyrics take an aggressive turn. It’s an unexpected development from an artist I had previously hoped would never change.
There are lots of reasons to admire film critics. First, it can be a thankless job. You have to sit through unfathomable amounts of crappy movies, and the price for getting to see them in advance and for free, is that you can’t leave them unfinished or simply dispose of them once they’ve flickered before… Les mer »
Lars Winnerbäck, den svenske folkehelten som endelig nådde mainstreamen her på berger skammelig seint, for noen få år siden,, har kun motvillig vært en selvsikker og bredbeint rocke-performer. De fleste intervjuer med mannen har stagnert i hans naturlige blygsel, og flere av hans tidlige låter oser ellers av en snerrende forakt for det moderne mediesamfunnets… Les mer »
Da jeg skrev om High School Musical 3: Senior Year på Skrivekollektivet etter kinopremieren i oktober for to år siden, advarte jeg folk som avskrev filmen som en døgnflue mot at det kunne komme en «hvinende, ti år gammel jente og [mose] popkorn inn i øyehulen din». Enda godt Justin Bieber: Never Say Never bør… Les mer »
I feel like I have to state my position on Justin Bieber in general terms before I say anything about his new book, First Step 2 Forever. The Canadian pop singer is a child of the social media revolution, discovered through YouTube and catapulted into a position as one of the pop world’s most polarizing… Les mer »
This is the final installment in a two-part series about my experiences at Bergen International Film Festival in October. Read the first part here. ***
In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the soulless vampire and the shirtless werewolf team up to take them evil-doers down.
If after you’ve read a book, you find yourself more interested in what was left out, what didn’t fit the narrative, than what was actually in it, that can be both a good or a bad sign. Good, if it means you found so little to criticize about the book itself that in a sense… Les mer »