A few months after crooning alongside Hugh Grant in Music & Lyrics, Drew Barrymore now has a single of her own: “Cold Hard Truth,” a just-released song from the long-delayed soundtrack to Lucky You (easily the Chinese Democracy of Curtis Hanson gambling dramas). More »
One of the many pleasures of Hot Fuzz–and there are many, though the movie doesn’t have quite as many smartly executed comic call-backs as Shaun Of The Dead–is in the inclusion of “Slipper Rock 70s,” the great glam-pop instrumental from long-running British outfit Stavely Makepeace (more info on… More »
Sure, everyone’s talking about the “cool” new record releases this week–your Modest Mouses, your Ted Leos, etc. But there’s one album that everyone’s forgetting about, and it may prove to be the most important of the year: The soundtrack for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And why does this under-the-radar release deserve more attention? Because if the history has taught us just one thing–and it probably has–it’s that every rapper, singer, and breakdancer associated with the Turtles franchise is forever doomed.
At a screening during yesterday’s ShoWest convention–it’s the movie-industry’s yearly hypefest, with more trumped-up awards than the AMAs–audience members got to see a few minutes of U2 3D, the 90-minute concert film that was shot last year in South America. More »
Yesterday, we featured a King Crimson track from the fantastic Children Of Men soundtrack, and because the movie clearly has a lot of fans–and because today has so few news items–we’re going to follow it up with John Lennon’s “Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple),” which is… More »
That’s right: Prince’s little purple telephone didn’t ring this morning, as his Golden Globe-winning song from Happy Feet wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. More »
We wouldn’t be so cruel as to give away any of the surprises in Children Of Men–we’ll leave that to the dickards at New York magazine, who revealed one of the movie’s plot twists without warning a few issues ago.* But we do want to highlight the movie’s excellent soundtrack,… More »
The above glimpse of hell is from the Z-movie The Apple, a 1980 flick that’s part musical, part vision of the future, part morality tale, and all crazy; it centers around a songwriting couple who, after winning the 1994 edition of a Eurovision-like contest, get sucked into a record deal more… More »
As with just about everything Michael Bay touches–The Island, Bad Boys II, Michael Bay–we have big doubts about the Transformers movie. More »
When Chris Cornell released his sink-like-a-stone theme song for the new James Bond movie this week, it proved what we’ve been saying for years: Duran Duran, we never know how good we had it with you. Ever since the early ’80s, the 007 franchise has been trotting out one unmemorable opening-credits number after another, prompting us to compile this YouTube-assisted list of the most egregious offenders. It will leave you shaken, stirred, and pining for the glory days of Shirley Bassey.
