Daredevil Recap: Date Night
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| 1143 words
| Sherie Connelly
Daredevil Kinbaku Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Daredevil Kinbaku Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Charlie Cox as Daredevil. Matt Murdock is not a romantic guy. This is because happiness tends to feel unnatural to him, an attribute Foggy Nelson blames on his Catholic faith.
[Read More]Dark Side of the Ring Exposes Wrestlings Seedy, Sensational Secrets
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1327 words
| Sherie Connelly
Is it real or is it fake? Is it a sport or is it an art form? Is the story what goes on inside the ring or what happens behind the scenes? These questions animate any serious discussion of professional wrestling; the key to understanding this American pastime is that the answer is yes, on all counts.
No series has understood this better than Dark Side of the Ring. Billed as the most-watched show in the history of Vice TV, Dark Side digs into the history of professional wrestling for its most controversial and criminal moments, which it portrays with genuine style and considerable compassion.
[Read More]Das Racist on the Most Discussed Tracks of the Year: Azealia Banks Good; Lana Del Rey Bad
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| 345 words
| Elina Uphoff
Rather than have Das Racist put together their own year-end list, Self-Titled asked Heems, Kool A.D., and Dapwell to share their thoughts on 25 of 2011’s top songs. Predictably, the results are hilarious. For example, here are their thoughts on Azealia Banks’s “212”: “Heems: This is cool. Kool A.D.: She kind of sounds like Bart Simpson. So does Kreayshawn, actually. The first lesbian rapper was Bart Simpson.”
And here they are on Drake’s “Lord Knows”:
[Read More]Dave Chappelles8:46Is Powerful But Not Quite Perfect
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1193 words
| Zora Stowers
Dave Chappelle in his new stand-up set. Every now and then an artist comes along and changes their field so completely that their fingerprints seem present in everything that comes afterward. John Carpenter’s Halloween birthed many decades of creeping, suspenseful shots of horror-movie killers stalking their prey, picking off decadent, unsupervised teenagers one by one in locations conveniently out of reach of parents and police. Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced?
[Read More]Dave Holmes Flashes Back to the Glorious March 1999 Singles Chart
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 16 minutes
| 3368 words
| Janel Helmers
Each week, through my Somewhere In Time column, I hop in my DeLorean GIF to a moment in our pop-culture past to reevaluate just what we as a nation thought was good. This week I travel back fifteen years and flip on the radio: Though the cover of Billboard’s March 6, 1999 issue trumpeted a rock resurgence (led by standard-bearers the Flys and Everlast), the rest of the magazine was all pop.
[Read More]David Letterman Enjoys the Finer Things in Life, Like Gum Art
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 266 words
| Aldo Pusey
Last night David Letterman attended a photography exhibition he helped put together featuring the work of Late Show writer Steve Young, who takes pictures of celebrities entering the Ed Sullivan theater with the same piece of gum in the foreground of every photo. Here are some possible analyses of this exhibit:
- gum is everlasting and throws into sharp relief the ephemeral quality of celebrity
- gum can be bought with money, reminding us that in a consumer culture, celebrities are just another commodity
[Read More]Davidson on John Luther Adamss Carnegie Hall Debut
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 458 words
| Elina Uphoff
Adams (at right), after Ludovic Marlot conducted the Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall last night. For most of his life, the composer John Luther Adams has lived, both literally and metaphorically, at the periphery of American concert life. He’s made his home on a ridge outside Fairbanks, Alaska, though he has had regular sojourns in a remote Mexican desert. Until yesterday, neither he nor his music had ever entered Carnegie Hall.
[Read More]Dead to Me Recap: Dashboard Confessional
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1242 words
| Janel Helmers
Dead to Me Where Do We Go Now? Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dead to Me Where Do We Go Now? Season 3 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Is this the best episode of the new season so far?
[Read More]Desus & Mero & Borat Are an Incredible Improv Team
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 172 words
| Janel Helmers
Last night on Desus & Mero, the co-hosts welcomed their most “illustrious” international guest yet when they had Sacha Baron Cohen on, in character, to promote Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Borat meets his improvisational match in their extended conversation, because Desus and Mero — or “Jesus and Mary” as Borat hears it — respond with “yes, and” to every ridiculous thing Borat says. When Borat asks Desus if his sneaker room is a “manufacturing plant for shoes,” for example, Desus rolls with it.
[Read More]Detective Pikachu Cinematographer Shot Movie on 35mm Because He Wanted It to Look Like Blade Runner
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 879 words
| Janel Helmers
“We wanted to make it look like Blade Runner,” John Mathieson admits, rather immediately. “A bit shamelessly, in fact.”
The veteran cinematographer has earned Oscar nominations for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera, along with blockbuster paydays from X-Men: First Class and Logan, but today he is talking about something else: Detective Pikachu, the noir spin on a 23-year-old franchise starring Ryan Reynolds as a caffeine-addicted electric mouse hell-bent on solving a good ol’ fashioned mystery.
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