by Alice Teeple | Feb 24, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music, NYC
Somewhere in the dark hours between 2-3 July 1969, just three weeks after being sacked from the Rolling Stones, 27 year old guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his Cotchford Farm swimming pool. The official verdict: “death by misadventure.” Jones...
by Alice Teeple | Jan 21, 2020 | Culture, Events, Movies, NYC
Attention all silent film aficionados! Arts Brookfield brings back the acclaimed “Silent Film/Live Music” series, curated by John Schaefer. Experience three unforgettable evenings of classic silent film screenings accompanied by live music! The event is January 22,...
by Dan Metz | Nov 18, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Photo credit Josh Beech Oliver Trevena is a British actor and longtime host of the interview show Young Hollywood. In the two years after leaving the show, he has been part of more than a half dozen projects, two of which have already been released. In 2018, he had a...
by Dan Metz | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Image from Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019), picture from IMDB.com If I were writing this review in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early ‘80s, I’d be a dead man. It’s nothing...
by Dan Metz | Oct 2, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Jeff Roda’s debut creation shines a light on the harrowing teenage drama of sitting around in a group doing nothing. Everything feels like a big deal when we’re younger. Teenage girls get the stereotype of endlessly complex gossip and rumormongering about...
by Dan Metz | Sep 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Villains is the story of a couple of petty criminals who stumble into a nightmare when they meet a pair of real “villains.” It stars Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe as the young couple, with Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan and The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick as their older...