KT Tunstall – Roseland Ballroom – New York, NY – November 21, 2007 This was one of very few KT Tunstall US shows in 2007 to promote Drastic Fantastic – Tunstall’s follow-up to last year’s slow-burning smash CD Eye to the Telescope. This Thanksgiving-eve show was a low-key affair. Tunstall didn’t even bring her whole band, just … Continue reading
Phoebe Snow Make Things All Right by Ronald Sklar The way Phoebe Snow can manipulate her vocal chords to achieve intense highs and duck-for-cover lows matches only the highs and lows of her own personal wild ride. Her voice, most well known for her 1974 hit, “Poetry Man,” is nothing short of a gift; however, … Continue reading
DAN FOGLER AND GEORGE LOPEZ GIVE IT TO US IN THE BALLS by Jay S. Jacobs Usually, when a movie studio makes stars available to the press to promote their latest film, they summon us to a suite in one of the finest hotels in New York City. However, it somehow makes a certain amount … Continue reading
Kitchen Confidential The Complete Series (2005) (20th Century Fox Home Video-2007) Kitchen Confidential came and went as fast as standing in line at McDonald’s Express. In it, superstar chef Anthony Bourdain (rechristened Jack for the series), as played by the underappreciated Bradley Cooper, talks about how your restaurant meal should “dazzle, amaze and delight.” Check, check … Continue reading
1408 (2007) Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Christopher Carey, Paul Birchard, Walter Lewis, Eric Meyers, Holly Hayes, Alexander Silber and Johann Urb. Screenplay by Matt Greenburg and Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski. Directed by Mikael Håfström. Distributed by Dimension Films. 94 minutes. Rated PG-13. There is a … Continue reading
BROKEN ENGLISH (2007) Starring Parker Posey, Drea DeMatteo, Melvil Poupaud, Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich, Roy Thinnes, Michael Panes, Philip Pavel, Justin Theroux, Tim Guinee and Dana Ivey. Written by Zoe Cassavettes. Directed by Zoe Cassavettes. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13. Broken English writer/director Zoë Cassavettes is the latest to make a mark from … Continue reading
How I Met Your Mother Season One (2005-2006) (Fox Home Video-2006) Those charmingly misguided TV sitcom writers seem to have four general rules: One: all twenty-somethings, regardless of financial obligation and career path, must live in Manhattan, in cool apartments with HUGE bathrooms. Two: all Manhattan-dwelling twenty-somethings are magically blessed with lots of free time, … Continue reading
Freddie Prinze, Jr. & Mena Suvari Living By Brooklyn Rules by Jay S. Jacobs Brooklyn Rules has been a long time coming. The script is a labor of love by Terrence Winter, one of the main writers on The Sopranos. The story was based on his own youth, where he and his best friends grow up in the … Continue reading
Wes Craven The Legendary Horror Director Still Has Eyes by Brad Balfour Copyright ©2007 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: March 30, 2007. What a long, strange cinematic life Wes Craven has had. From his start with the ground-breaking gore fest, Last House on The Left, to The Swamp Thing to A Nightmare on Elm Street, … Continue reading
Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Premiere Episode 12/18/78 The Time & Make-Up Show 8/19/79 The Halloween Show 10/31/79 (Brinkfilm/MVD-2006) The question isn’t this: how much can you endure of artsy New York hipsters who think they are smarter, cooler and more detached than you? The question is this: how do all the Lower East Side struggling … Continue reading
