By Jeremy Kotin
1. LOCATION Las Vegas
Disgusting, overly opulent, excessive and quite possibly the best damn two and half days in recent memory. Whether wondering from overdone hotel to insanely themed hotel, beverage always in hand, sunning ourselves at the pool, losing money on penny slots and video roulette (one…
By Jeremy Kotin
My apologies for any typos or confused sentence structure…I’m writing this from my iPhone due to a tech issue. But enjoy!
1. MOVIE Alice in Wonderland
I would love to give a glowing review of this film that combines two of my favorite things, Tim Burton and the whimsical insane world of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, but alas, I cannot. It’s at times…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. PLAY Behanding of Spokane
Another play from the devilish witty mind of Martin Mcdonagh is always welcome in my book. Clocking in at just 90 minutes, it took me about 45 to actually start laughing at the sheer lunacy being presented, body parts splayed about the stage, questionable morals abound, but once I let the laugh roll, it didn’t stop. …
By Jeremy Kotin
1. MUSICAL A Little Night Music
The near three hours of this musical are pure delight and over too soon, filled with incredible wit and humor of the plight of humans in love. With stripped down orchestrations, Sondheim’s all-waltz score is still as sumptuous as you remember it, but now with the added bonus of truly highlighting the ridiculous intelligence of…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. ALBUM Traveling Like The Light V. V. Brown
This album is just a delight of doo-wop girl-group styled music for a modern generation. Lead single “Shark in the Water” is pitch perfect with a steady beat straight out of K.T. Tunstall’s catalog, Brown’s voice ringing clearly through an excellent hook. She finds her sexy cool on “Bottles,” with its synthy…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. CONCERT Nneka at SOBs
Her voice ringing clean and clear, this little dynamo from Nigeria is poised to take over the US if only everyone will pay attention (she did an amazing job on Letterman, so I’m hoping people will). Her message of love and universality is clear as she wails through “Suffri” and “V.I.P.” getting the audience to sing along…
By Jeremy Kotin
I’m not referring to the concept of Monogamy, although if you’d like to be a fan of that, you go right ahead! Instead, I’m referring to the film that I co-produced and co-edited this past summer starring the great Chris Messina and Rashida Jones. So demonstrate your love of me, your love of an actual thinking man’s film, by clicking…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. PLAY Time Stands Still
Elegantly written, emotionally raw without being melodramatic, this play brings together such a wonderful quartet of performances that I found myself transfixed for what felt like a very quick and efficient two hours. It’s one of those rare instances where I actually wonder what happens to these characters, before and after the curtain, so real and…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. ALBUM Acolyte Delphic
Nothing is better than accidentally discovering a band, just happening upon an album cover, thinking this looks different and then finding out it’s the best thing you’ve heard in a long time. Such is the case with Delphic, an amazing alternative/dance band from Manchester that have all the fantastic layered sounds of Muse with the more pop oriented…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. CONCERT Alice Smith at Joe’s Pub
How is this woman not a total star of the music world? Her personality and singing style are amazingly at ease considering the huge and powerful sound that escapes from her lips seemingly without even flexing her muscles. On songs from her only album like “Dream” and “Love Endeavor,” she was captivating and able to…
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…