DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES – LIVE IN DUBLIN (2015) Featuring Daryl Hall, John Oates, Charlie DeChant, Eliot Lewis, Klyde Jones, Brian Dunne, Shane Theriot and Porter Carroll. Directed by Daryl Hall & John Oates. Distributed by Fathom Events/Eagle Rock Entertainment. 111 minutes. Not Rated. Forty-some years into their partnership, Daryl Hall and John Oates … Continue reading
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Come Out and Play (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Come Out and Play We like to believe that small children are sweet and innocent, but the truth is between the ages of 8 and 15, children can be pretty cruel and heartless. The idea of psycho kids has a long history in film, with stuff like The Bad Seed, Village of the Damned, The … Continue reading
Lay the Favorite (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Lay the Favorite At the beginning of Lay the Favorite, there is a title scrawl which reads: “As luck would have it, the following story is true.” Which makes you sort of wonder, why tell this particular true story? I’m not saying that to be mean, Lay the Favorite actually has some interesting, quirky characters … Continue reading
Little Big Town – The Band Has Landed
Little Big Town The Band Has Landed By Mark Mussari It’s an impossible task trying to define Little Big Town. There’s no one like them in country music – or in any genre of music for that matter. And their singularity goes far beyond their unique configuration of two men and two women. Flying high … Continue reading
Little Big Town – Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony
Little Big Town Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony By Mark Mussari As a vocal group Little Big Town exists on a rarified plane. The country-rock quartet – whose album The Road to Here has already sold over 500,000 copies and spawned a mega-hit in the stomping Southern anthem “Boondocks” – consists of two women and two men. … Continue reading
Elijah Wood, Liev Schreiber and Eugene Hutz Illuminate Us
Elijah Wood, Liev Schreiber and Eugene Hutz Illuminate Us by Jay S. Jacobs Everything Is Illuminated is the debut writing and directing project by respected New York-based actor Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate, Scream, Kate and Leopold.) The film is based on a portion of the fanciful and yet disturbing best-selling novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran … Continue reading
Richard Price – Better Than Fiction
RICHARD PRICE BETTER THAN FICTION BY RONALD SKLAR If Richard Price’s life story were made into a movie, you would accuse the joint of being too far-fetched. But, as the old cliché goes, truth is stranger than fiction. Price came up in a Bronx housing project, but his gift for writing gained him entrance into the … Continue reading
Joshua Malina – Hail to the Chief
Joshua Malina Hail to the Chief by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of ways that people go about trying to get their first big break in acting. Some people kill themselves working a minimum wage job while floating from audition to audition. Some try other arts, like music or modeling, as an entrance. Some people sit on a stool in … Continue reading
Vincent Patrick – Putting Up a Smoke Screen
Vincent Patrick Putting Up a Smoke Screen by Ronald Sklar If you lead a squeaky clean (read: deadly dull) existence, chances are the closest you’ll ever get to an exhilarating, rewarding life of crime is by reading the great works of Vincent Patrick. His two previous novels, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Family Business, … Continue reading