The Emmy Awards are just one "whyyyyy?" after another. Nothing about this award show makes a lick of sense. Why does it take itself so seriously? Why are the categories so random? (As host Andy Samberg said, "Orange Is the New Black is now officially a drama and Louie is officially jazz.") Why didn't Broad City get nominated? Did the voters get their wisdom teeth pulled every day this year? Peg me gently with a chainsaw! In our golden age for award shows, not to mention for TV, why are...
- 9/21/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Every summer has a dominant blockbuster, but it’s not every year that the season’s biggest movie inspires a legitimate mania. Ghostbusters, which surrounded some of the funniest guys on the planet with expensive — though slightly cheesy — special effects, was a certifiable phenomenon. In 1984, your classmates, your teacher, your pen-pal in Nairobi, even your half-deaf grandmother knew the emphatic, enthusiastic chanted response to the winking question, “Who you gonna call?” Thirty years later, everyone still knows the answer.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis played the trio of disgraced parapsychologists who pick the perfect time to go into...
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis played the trio of disgraced parapsychologists who pick the perfect time to go into...
- 4/18/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Back in the '80s and '90s, it wasn't uncommon to see a tune lifted from a popular movie soundtrack become a colossal hit and spend many glorious weeks atop the singles charts. Whitney Houston did it, Celine Dion did it. Heck, even Bryan Adams managed it thanks to his link with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!
For reasons unknown to us, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happen anymore. This hasn't stopped some fairly prominent contemporary artists from trying, though. Britney Spears has a song on The Smurfs 2, Jessie J is doing Kick-Ass 2 and Lana Del Rey crooned all over The Great Gatsby.
Digital Spy has shuffled through our movie soundtrack playlist to revisit some of the big tunes, and see who stands up and who falls down years on.
Bryan Adams - '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' - Worst!
We're not averse...
For reasons unknown to us, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happen anymore. This hasn't stopped some fairly prominent contemporary artists from trying, though. Britney Spears has a song on The Smurfs 2, Jessie J is doing Kick-Ass 2 and Lana Del Rey crooned all over The Great Gatsby.
Digital Spy has shuffled through our movie soundtrack playlist to revisit some of the big tunes, and see who stands up and who falls down years on.
Bryan Adams - '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' - Worst!
We're not averse...
- 7/23/2013
- Digital Spy
Back in the '80s and '90s, it wasn't uncommon to see a tune lifted from a popular movie soundtrack go on to become a colossal hit and spend many glorious weeks atop the singles charts. Whitney Houston did it, Celine Dion did it. Heck, even Bryan Adams managed it thanks to his link with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!
For reasons unknown to us, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happy anymore. This hasn't stopped some fairly prominent contemporary artists from trying, though. Britney Spears has a song on The Smurfs 2, Jessie J is doing Kick-Ass 2 and Lana Del Rey crooned all over The Great Gatsby.
Digital Spy has shuffled through our movie soundtrack playlist to revisit some of the big tunes, and see who stands up and who falls down years on.
Bryan Adams - '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' - Worst!
For reasons unknown to us, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happy anymore. This hasn't stopped some fairly prominent contemporary artists from trying, though. Britney Spears has a song on The Smurfs 2, Jessie J is doing Kick-Ass 2 and Lana Del Rey crooned all over The Great Gatsby.
Digital Spy has shuffled through our movie soundtrack playlist to revisit some of the big tunes, and see who stands up and who falls down years on.
Bryan Adams - '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' - Worst!
- 7/23/2013
- Digital Spy
Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
- 10/30/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
…and One Reason Why Maybe It Isn’t!
(Article re-posted for your enjoyment)…
Owf’s Tom Fallows runs down 50 reasons why the 1984 classic horror comedy Ghostbusters is The Greatest Film of All Time.
Also check out the three sequels to this list Gremlins, Back to the Future and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho!
1. Bill Murray
This is the movie that made the Saturday Night Live comedian a bonified movie star and would pave the way for such later delights as Groundhog Day (1993), Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005). Without Bill Murray, would Ghostbusters be the classic it is today?
2. The Dialogue
Just transcribing the movie would enough reason why Ghostbusters achieves greatness. This list contains as many classic quotes as we could fit. i.e.
“You forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained sponge migration,” – Ray.
3. Ray Parker Jr’s Theme Song
All together now, “Who ya gonna call?...
(Article re-posted for your enjoyment)…
Owf’s Tom Fallows runs down 50 reasons why the 1984 classic horror comedy Ghostbusters is The Greatest Film of All Time.
Also check out the three sequels to this list Gremlins, Back to the Future and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho!
1. Bill Murray
This is the movie that made the Saturday Night Live comedian a bonified movie star and would pave the way for such later delights as Groundhog Day (1993), Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005). Without Bill Murray, would Ghostbusters be the classic it is today?
2. The Dialogue
Just transcribing the movie would enough reason why Ghostbusters achieves greatness. This list contains as many classic quotes as we could fit. i.e.
“You forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained sponge migration,” – Ray.
3. Ray Parker Jr’s Theme Song
All together now, “Who ya gonna call?...
- 12/29/2010
- by Tom Fallows
- Obsessed with Film
Dan Aykroyd told E! earlier this week that there is a threequel in the works for Ghostbusters, saying, "two sharp young writers are purported to be writing the sequel...If I could interest Seth [Rogen] and Judd [Apatow] to be part of it, that would be an absolute dream.
The two young writers probably aren't Rogen and Apatow, at least according to Rogen, who has already denied it, but rather Gene Stupnisky and Lee Eisenberg, who are a couple of the talented scribes on The Office. So says Pajiba.
They also wrote Year One, which will be directed by Harold Ramis. Here's where it gets interesting: Ramis is also directing Ghostbusters 3, at least in theory, but he hated the outline Stupnisky and Eisenberg came up with for that project (without his prior knowledge).
The studio, however, loved their ideas and not Ramis', which are now apparently dancing side-by-side with the good ideas...
The two young writers probably aren't Rogen and Apatow, at least according to Rogen, who has already denied it, but rather Gene Stupnisky and Lee Eisenberg, who are a couple of the talented scribes on The Office. So says Pajiba.
They also wrote Year One, which will be directed by Harold Ramis. Here's where it gets interesting: Ramis is also directing Ghostbusters 3, at least in theory, but he hated the outline Stupnisky and Eisenberg came up with for that project (without his prior knowledge).
The studio, however, loved their ideas and not Ramis', which are now apparently dancing side-by-side with the good ideas...
- 9/4/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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