Archive for April, 2009
Ray Liotta
Posted on21. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
words by Devoe Yates, photos by Robert Todd Williamson As snow swirls down outside his hotel’s windows, Ray Liotta unbundles layers, seemingly refreshed and a little flushed from an afternoon skiing jaunt in the nearby mountains. While one would expect to find him intimidating and on edge, like his best known characters, he is instead [...]
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Michelle Trachtenberg: On the Fast Track
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
words by Jason Dean There are few sure things in the entertainment business, but here is one truth you can bank on: Audiences love the young, precocious screen star. In recent years, Hollywood has enthusiastically fed the public’s addiction, churning out cuddly, pint-sized stars with the prolific pace of a puppy mill. But the glare [...]
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Tracey Ullman
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
words by Jason Dean, photo by Robert Todd Williamson, hair and makeup by Sally Crave In case you haven’t noticed, we live in a country where reality just ain’t real enough anymore. The human experience has become so pedestrian that the TV gods create punched-up, staged versions of Type A personality train wrecks: a dysfunctional race [...]
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What the h? – Not to Brag. Twitter
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
by Derek Waters Not to brag… Our country is setting world records in the financial department, homeless department, and depression department. No matter what business you’re in right now, we are all being affected. But I believe the bigger problem right now is a website called Twitter. The problem is people are thinking other people [...]
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Buy, Rent or Skip: Spring – Home Video
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
by Todd Gilchrist The 400 Blows There aren’t a lot of insights about Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection, Mar. 24, $39.95) that haven’t already been thoroughly documented, but the new Blu-ray release affords fans a chance to pore over its thoughtful, sensitive details yet again with superior picture and sound quality. Following [...]
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Michelle Forbes Talk To Me
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
Michelle Forbes speaks highly of her recent colleagues for their fascination with the human condition; ultimately for their ability to “get in there and be intimate with people, uncovering their deepest, darkest secrets.” She too has delved into some deep and dark characters over the years in theatre, television, and movies including Swimming with Sharks, Kalifornia,The District, Prison [...]
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Trevor Moore – Profile
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
by Brent Simon, photo by Robert Todd Williamson Rubber-faced Trevor Moore is best known thus far as part of the New York-bred The Whitest Kids U Know, a comedy collective that got snapped up for their own show by IFC. That point of reference could be changing, though. Along with fellow “Whitest Kid” Zach Cregger, [...]
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Dan Deacon, the Band? – Music Profile
Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
words by Bill Dvorak Dan Deacon, the four-eyed mad scientist behind 2007’s electronic noise-pop sensation, Spiderman of the Rings, might be going acoustic soon. “I kind of want to start writing with less computer and less electronics, and more writing for acoustic instruments,” he told h over the phone from his hometown of Baltimore. For [...]
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Moon – Film Review
Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
by Todd Gilchrist While I’ve never been particularly keen on filmmakers who openly reference big-name works in the service of creating their own (the Tarantinos of the world are exempt by virtue of the obscurity of their sources of inspiration), I admire the fact that writer-director Duncan Jones tapped no less than 2001 as a [...]
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Is Anybody There? – Film Review
Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.
by Brent Simon A simple, straightforward and sweetly dispositioned multi-generational dramedy without much thunderclap revelation, Michael Caine’s Is Anybody There? marks the sort of solid, unfussy, character-rooted filmmaking that Hollywood studios have mostly abandoned in their pursuit of the latest hot-shit comic book or videogame property. Set in 1980’s seaside England, the movie tells the [...]

