The Phantom Menace just turned ten this month. I have to imagine you had two immediate reactions.
1. WTF?! [Denial anger depression negotiation acceptance.] Damn I’m getting old.
2. Never forgive. Never forget.
Rotten Tomatoes has a fantastic article that focuses on the glory and majesty of Episode One- which is to say, everything leading up to it. More or less everything until the…
By Hawkes Klein
Picture this: A friend sends me this trailer in an email very unassumingly titled “watch this when you get home.” I’m home now expecting something hilarious, or pop music related. I’m on the couch, I put “House” on pause and I click on the link which brings me to EW.com. The following 15 seconds are played out as such:
- A…
By Ji-Un Kwon
* Please pause to admire how awesome this poster is.*
Drag Me to Hell marks Sam Raimi’s return to horror, after spending several years at the helm of the Spiderman franchise. Raimi got his start in horror with Evil Dead and its subsequent sequels, pioneering his own brand of do-it-yourself filmmaking that had a lasting impact on the way movies were made. And as…
By Ji-Un Kwon
Catchy, ain’t it? So this is a new thing Juan Carlos and I have cooked up, born out of our long talks regarding what we love and hate in all things cinema. And we’re hoping to make it a regular thing. Expect some gravity, humor, snark, outrage, fights to the death (not really), and overall passionate dialogue… because that’s what…
Wow does this hit my cohorts and I a bit too close to home… and doubtless if you run a small business, or really any service-related business as a vendor, this will make you laugh, then cry, then maybe vomit a bit of serotonin out.
Because we’ve all been through it. And though it’s always a funny story afterwards, it’s never…
By Peter Brauer
The weekend before last I had the pleasure to have my face melted off by SleepCrime. They invited me to video and photograph them recording their first album in upstate New York. The band has fellow poptenners Andy on guitar and Matt on bass. Hot Long Island ladies Lauren on drums and Michele on guitar and vocals totally sexify the band. All…
I know very little about Swedish photographer Erik Johansson except that I really, really dig his photos. I think you might too. After the jump a few of my favorites, but I urge you to check out his site here, and be blown away.
By Ji-Un Kwon
Um… I just about lost the ability to breathe after seeing this, I was laughing so hard. Politics and media have been simpatico since the beginning of time (maybe not that long), as has our voracious consumption of all things publicity, especially when it comes to ourselves. And this really seems to encompass/reflect/exploit/mock/who-cares-what-it’s-doing-it’s-hilarious/indulge the absurdity in ALL of us.
I’d like to…
Summer is unofficially here. And what better way to honor Memorial Day than by listening to covers? It’s other people remembering classic songs in a slightly different way than we’re used to. The mix is one hour of summer songs or at least songs that somehow remind me of summer. So let’s get right to the music!
Stream here.
The Wrens –…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
We are happy to introduce you to Navegante. They were recently showcased in New York Magazine for their musical residency at a fantastic Spanish Harlem bar called Camaradas. They are there Friday and Saturday churning out electro-funk latin beats until 4am. PopTen’s very own Matt Lambert directed their stellar music video, and it premiered for a packed house on May…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…