I was down with the first, and seriously despised the second. New Moon cut such a critical stink that it seems incomprehensible that anyone outside of the Twi-hards could be in any state of high expectation for Eclipse. Nonetheless…
I was down with the first, and seriously despised the second. New Moon cut such a critical stink that it seems incomprehensible that anyone outside of the Twi-hards could be in any state of high expectation for Eclipse. Nonetheless…
Thanks to Mike Vollman and the MGM/UA team for not inviting me to last night’s 7pm showing of Hot Tub Time Machine (3.26) on 86th Street (forget the theatre, between 2nd and 3rd). It may be the only March film I’m half- jacked about, and I’ve only been posting the trailers for…what, five or six months now?
Not to sound tape-loopy, but “the reasons for the voltage are Kristen Stewart‘s scrappy performance as Joan Jett, the Runaways co-founder who went on to become a solo rock legend in the ’80s, and Michael Shannon‘s as L.A. rock impresario Kim Fowley. As long as the film is focused on [these two] and the generally pungent ’70s atmosphere, it radiates badass attitude and seems authentically plugged in to the spirit of ’70s rebel rock.”
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