Well, it took Peter Farrelly exactly two movies to go from winning Best Picture back to making broad comedies about dog boners; I guess some people never change. Of course, “Green Book” was only about two dog boners away from being as dumb — or dumber — than a Farrelly classic like “There’s Something About Mary” to begin with, but even so, the funniest thing about “Ricky Stanicky” might be how recently its director was holding an Oscar on the stage of the Dolby Theater.
Actually, no: The funniest thing about “Ricky Stanicky” is the sight of John Cena dressed as Alice Cooper and singing “Sploooooooge out. My. Penis” to the tune of “School’s Out” (for summer), which is one of the signature “jizz jams” his character performs at the semen-themed musical revue he launched after his dog-fucking show was canceled because “Atlantic City went all woke.”
Anyway, those are the two funny things about “Ricky Stanicky.
Actually, no: The funniest thing about “Ricky Stanicky” is the sight of John Cena dressed as Alice Cooper and singing “Sploooooooge out. My. Penis” to the tune of “School’s Out” (for summer), which is one of the signature “jizz jams” his character performs at the semen-themed musical revue he launched after his dog-fucking show was canceled because “Atlantic City went all woke.”
Anyway, those are the two funny things about “Ricky Stanicky.
- 3/6/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Alice Cooper has announced a 50th anniversary deluxe edition of his seminal 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. The expanded set arrives March 8th digitally and in 3-lp and 2-cd physical formats.
The “Trillion Dollar” edition, as Cooper is calling it, includes a remastered version of the original studio album and a wealth of era-specific rarities: two studio outtakes, four single mixes, and a concert recording from a Texas date in 1973. The vinyl edition will also replicate the original LP’s iconic snakeskin wallet sleeve design (and houses the original billion dollar bill insert of the band).
The liner notes for both the LP and CD editions features an oral history of the album, with Cooper himself reflecting on the songwriting process for what would become some of the biggest hits of his career (i.e. “Elected” and “No More Mr. Nice Guy”).
“We were writing those songs looking at each other,...
The “Trillion Dollar” edition, as Cooper is calling it, includes a remastered version of the original studio album and a wealth of era-specific rarities: two studio outtakes, four single mixes, and a concert recording from a Texas date in 1973. The vinyl edition will also replicate the original LP’s iconic snakeskin wallet sleeve design (and houses the original billion dollar bill insert of the band).
The liner notes for both the LP and CD editions features an oral history of the album, with Cooper himself reflecting on the songwriting process for what would become some of the biggest hits of his career (i.e. “Elected” and “No More Mr. Nice Guy”).
“We were writing those songs looking at each other,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Hard rock/heavy metal pundit Eddie Trunk celebrated 40 years in radio on Monday night (December 11th) with an all-star bash at the House of Blues in Las Vegas.
Many of the famous rockers Trunk has encountered and worked with across his four-decade career in the business showed out for the evening to play their respective hits. All proceeds from the event benefitted the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.
Among the performers were Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony — billed as “The Other Half (of Van Halen)” — and a host of “special guests” that included Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, Ace Frehley, Corey Taylor, Lita Ford, Geezer Butler, Mike Portnoy, Kevin Cronin, and Stephen Pearcy.
Hagar rocked “I Can’t Drive 55,” while Anthony sang Van Halen’s “Somebody Get Me a Doctor” with Portnoy on drums. Other highlights included Sebastian Bach tapping into his Skid Row years for “Monkey Business...
Many of the famous rockers Trunk has encountered and worked with across his four-decade career in the business showed out for the evening to play their respective hits. All proceeds from the event benefitted the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.
Among the performers were Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony — billed as “The Other Half (of Van Halen)” — and a host of “special guests” that included Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, Ace Frehley, Corey Taylor, Lita Ford, Geezer Butler, Mike Portnoy, Kevin Cronin, and Stephen Pearcy.
Hagar rocked “I Can’t Drive 55,” while Anthony sang Van Halen’s “Somebody Get Me a Doctor” with Portnoy on drums. Other highlights included Sebastian Bach tapping into his Skid Row years for “Monkey Business...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
For Teezo Touchdown, his sound started with his look. When the Beaumont, Texas singer/rapper went into the studio in 2019 to record what became the Panic at the Disco-sampling track “100 Drums,” he surprised himself by leaning hard towards rock influences — an approach that would become the template for his recent debut, How Do You Sleep at Night? “I already had made the change aesthetically of going to rock before I even did it sonically,” he says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “I was already painting my [face], I had the hair.
- 10/8/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Season 3 of the Chucky TV series (read our review Here) is now airing on both Syfy and USA Network (and episodes are available to watch on the Peacock streaming service the day after they air), and while this new batch of episodes plays out the folks at Arrow Video are taking pre-orders for their Chucky / Child’s Play franchise 4K and Blu-ray set, which contains all seven of the films (not counting the remake) and the documentary Living with Chucky! Copies of the set can be pre-ordered at This Link and have a release date of December 11th. But before you order, take note: while the 4K discs in the set are region free, the Blu-rays in the set are locked to region B.
Here’s the info on this Chucky / Child’s Play 4K and Blu-ray set:
Limited edition deluxe packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
Illustrated...
Here’s the info on this Chucky / Child’s Play 4K and Blu-ray set:
Limited edition deluxe packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
Illustrated...
- 10/5/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A long-lost daughter or an impostor looking for a cash-grab?
Laure Calamy stars as an elusive family member in Sebastien Marnier’s satirical thriller “The Origin of Evil,” where she reconnects with her alleged father as he nears his deathbed. “The Origin of Evil” premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and went on to screen at TIFF, BFI, and Frameline47, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
The official synopsis reads: When Stéphane (Calamy) gets in touch with wealthy Serge (Jacques Weber), announcing that she is his long-abandoned daughter, his immediate family are none too thrilled. As Stéphane embarks on an extended visit in hopes of getting to know Serge, she also becomes entangled with the hostile women who share a tense existence in his beautifully appointed mansion by the sea: the restaurateur’s wife (Dominique Blanc), his other daughter (Doria Tillier), a rebellious granddaughter (Céleste Brunnquell), and a strangely off-putting housemaid,...
Laure Calamy stars as an elusive family member in Sebastien Marnier’s satirical thriller “The Origin of Evil,” where she reconnects with her alleged father as he nears his deathbed. “The Origin of Evil” premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and went on to screen at TIFF, BFI, and Frameline47, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
The official synopsis reads: When Stéphane (Calamy) gets in touch with wealthy Serge (Jacques Weber), announcing that she is his long-abandoned daughter, his immediate family are none too thrilled. As Stéphane embarks on an extended visit in hopes of getting to know Serge, she also becomes entangled with the hostile women who share a tense existence in his beautifully appointed mansion by the sea: the restaurateur’s wife (Dominique Blanc), his other daughter (Doria Tillier), a rebellious granddaughter (Céleste Brunnquell), and a strangely off-putting housemaid,...
- 8/21/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Johnny Depp hard rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires is on the road, and despite encountering some problems such as Depp passing out or walking through a crutch, the band isn’t stopping. Now entering their US tour, the band received a great welcome by audiences, with Johnny Depp thanking the fans for their warm welcome.
Before this, the band had been rocking in Europe in areas such as Budapest and England, though they had to cancel their Slovakia show due to Depp passing out. Nonetheless, the band started off their US tour with great power, and are hitting various stops such as Boston, New York, Kansas, San Francisco, Chicago, Texas and other American states.
The band recently concluded their Friday night show in Boston and after selling out over 4000 tickets in an instant, the actor-musician, who is now in great spirits was greeted by a cavalcade of screaming fans ranging...
Before this, the band had been rocking in Europe in areas such as Budapest and England, though they had to cancel their Slovakia show due to Depp passing out. Nonetheless, the band started off their US tour with great power, and are hitting various stops such as Boston, New York, Kansas, San Francisco, Chicago, Texas and other American states.
The band recently concluded their Friday night show in Boston and after selling out over 4000 tickets in an instant, the actor-musician, who is now in great spirits was greeted by a cavalcade of screaming fans ranging...
- 7/30/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson were good friends who often got drunk with one another, especially during Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” period. One person who the pair also spent time with was Alice Cooper. Cooper recalled hanging out with the two musicians and having to play referee between the two, as they loved getting into fights with each other.
Alice Cooper would break up fights between John Lennon and Harry Nilsson
During Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” in the early 1970s, the former Beatle had a few public outbursts with Nilsson. The pair would get drunk and cause a scene. One example of this occurred at a nightclub in Las Vegas where Lennon got ejected for asking singer Frankie Valli to perform a lewd act on stage.
Lennon and Nilsson often hung out with the Hollywood Vampires, a drinking club with several stars who stayed out in Hollywood after hours. One...
Alice Cooper would break up fights between John Lennon and Harry Nilsson
During Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” in the early 1970s, the former Beatle had a few public outbursts with Nilsson. The pair would get drunk and cause a scene. One example of this occurred at a nightclub in Las Vegas where Lennon got ejected for asking singer Frankie Valli to perform a lewd act on stage.
Lennon and Nilsson often hung out with the Hollywood Vampires, a drinking club with several stars who stayed out in Hollywood after hours. One...
- 6/26/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The 2023 edition of Welcome to Rockville took place over four days from Thursday (May 18th) to Sunday (May 21st) in Daytona Beach, Florida. The massive rock fest was led by headliners Tool, Pantera, Slipknot, and Avenged Sevenfold, while also featuring dozens more notable acts.
The festival closed out on Sunday with Tool’s first show of the year. The performance was particularly notable in that singer Maynard James Keenan dressed in drag just days after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new anti-drag bill into law. As for the music, the band played a brief 10-song set that included classics like “Forty Six & 2” and “Stinkfist” alongside newer tracks like “Fear Inoculum” and “Invincible.”
Elsewhere on Sunday, Incubus paused their set for a moment to help a distressed fan. The band performed with new touring bassist Nicole Row, filling in for Ben Kenney after he underwent surgery for a brain tumor. Other highlights included sets from Deftones,...
The festival closed out on Sunday with Tool’s first show of the year. The performance was particularly notable in that singer Maynard James Keenan dressed in drag just days after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new anti-drag bill into law. As for the music, the band played a brief 10-song set that included classics like “Forty Six & 2” and “Stinkfist” alongside newer tracks like “Fear Inoculum” and “Invincible.”
Elsewhere on Sunday, Incubus paused their set for a moment to help a distressed fan. The band performed with new touring bassist Nicole Row, filling in for Ben Kenney after he underwent surgery for a brain tumor. Other highlights included sets from Deftones,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Heavy Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
It’s a big day for Alice Cooper, as the legendary shock rocker has announced deluxe expanded reissues of classic albums Killer (1971) and School’s Out (1972) after revealing the tentative title for his upcoming studio LP.
The reissues are set to arrive June 9th via Rhino on 2-cd and 3-lp formats and will feature remastered audio of the original album tracks, rare recordings, and previously unreleased era-specific concerts. As a teaser, an unearthed live take of “Be My Lover” recorded at a Miami concert in ’72 can be streamed below now.
The Killer deluxe edition adds three alternate studio versions of “You Drive Me Nervous,” “Under My Wheels,” and “Dead Babies.” The collection also houses a previously unreleased live recording of the band’s performance at the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico on April 2, 1972 — a few months before Alice Cooper hit the studio to make School’s Out. The set...
The reissues are set to arrive June 9th via Rhino on 2-cd and 3-lp formats and will feature remastered audio of the original album tracks, rare recordings, and previously unreleased era-specific concerts. As a teaser, an unearthed live take of “Be My Lover” recorded at a Miami concert in ’72 can be streamed below now.
The Killer deluxe edition adds three alternate studio versions of “You Drive Me Nervous,” “Under My Wheels,” and “Dead Babies.” The collection also houses a previously unreleased live recording of the band’s performance at the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico on April 2, 1972 — a few months before Alice Cooper hit the studio to make School’s Out. The set...
- 4/26/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Forty-six years after publication, Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has become a B-horror institution. The short story, which first ran in a 1977 issue of Penthouse, follows a bickering couple who run afoul of a murderous cult of corn-worshiping children on a back road in Nebraska. A bleak example of horror in the daylight, the original text plays out like the bastard child of The Wicker Man and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A 1984 film adaptation adds a sunnier tone while kicking off the story with a brutal massacre in which the children of Gatlin murder their parents. But this jarring tone is not the strangest thing to happen in the corn.
The franchise’s eleven entries are a cinematic cornucopia of ludicrous scenes and sequences. The following is a list of the most bonkers moments in the Children of the Corn series.
The eleventh installment in the franchise,...
The franchise’s eleven entries are a cinematic cornucopia of ludicrous scenes and sequences. The following is a list of the most bonkers moments in the Children of the Corn series.
The eleventh installment in the franchise,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sébastian Marnier’s psychological thriller Origin of Evil, starring Call My Agent! actress Laure Calamy as a factory worker who discovers the father she never knew is a wealthy businessman, opens Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Thursday.
Embarrassed by her humble background when she meets her father and stepmother and sister in their luxury Mediterranean mansion, Calamy’s character pretends she is an entrepreneur on the verge of success. But nothing is as it seems and the lies begin to pile up.
Calamy was in Venice last year in Horizons title A Plein Temps for which she won the best actress award for her performance as a single mother trying to get to a job interview during a transport strike. Marnier was previously at Venice with the chilling drama School’s Out, starring Laurent Lafitte as a teacher in charge of a class of disturbed teenagers who witnessed his predecessor commit suicide.
Embarrassed by her humble background when she meets her father and stepmother and sister in their luxury Mediterranean mansion, Calamy’s character pretends she is an entrepreneur on the verge of success. But nothing is as it seems and the lies begin to pile up.
Calamy was in Venice last year in Horizons title A Plein Temps for which she won the best actress award for her performance as a single mother trying to get to a job interview during a transport strike. Marnier was previously at Venice with the chilling drama School’s Out, starring Laurent Lafitte as a teacher in charge of a class of disturbed teenagers who witnessed his predecessor commit suicide.
- 8/31/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Where have you gone, American Idol? A nation turns its lonely eyes to … wait, seriously? You’re still on?
Believe it or not, it’s true. Idol has survived long enough to see its 20th birthday. When it debuted on June 11, 2002, the TV singing contest was the blockbuster that promised to define the new pop-culture era. Like the country it’s named after, American Idol is still technically on the map, but it’s staggering in a punch-drunk haze of crushed dreams and betrayed hopes, and the nagging sense that...
Believe it or not, it’s true. Idol has survived long enough to see its 20th birthday. When it debuted on June 11, 2002, the TV singing contest was the blockbuster that promised to define the new pop-culture era. Like the country it’s named after, American Idol is still technically on the map, but it’s staggering in a punch-drunk haze of crushed dreams and betrayed hopes, and the nagging sense that...
- 6/10/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Part of Alice Cooper’s enduring appeal has been the fact that, unlike many of his Seventies FM-radio peers, he always rejected the notion that rock & roll should be Serious Art. “School’s Out” is just a distant cousin of Chuck Berry’s “School Days,” and “I’m Eighteen” is inherently funny since Cooper was 23 when it became a hit, and he hasn’t stopped singing it for the past 50 years. That’s why his great Seventies albums like Love It to Death and Killer were great in the first place.
- 2/26/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Suzanne Clément, Dominique Blanc and Jacques Weber lead the cast of this Avenue B production sold by Charades. The first clapperboard slammed today on L’origine du mal, Sébastien Marnier’s 3rd feature film after Faultless (which earned its protagonist a nomination for Best Actress at the 2017 Césars) and School’s Out. The cast includes Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier...
Dave Grohl, who’s known for covering everyone from Queen to Killing Joke with the Foo Fighters, picked a predictably eclectic group of artists for his pandemic playlist.
The Cars, LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, Patsy Cline and Alice Cooper all made the cut for an emotionally charged selection of songs he put together for The Atlantic, complete with his typically whimsical annotations. “In order to get through this difficult period (and I truly believe that we will get through this, in time),” he wrote in the list’s intro, “it...
The Cars, LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, Patsy Cline and Alice Cooper all made the cut for an emotionally charged selection of songs he put together for The Atlantic, complete with his typically whimsical annotations. “In order to get through this difficult period (and I truly believe that we will get through this, in time),” he wrote in the list’s intro, “it...
- 4/10/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The filmmaker jury of the online festival organised by UniFrance has crowned Sébastien Marnier’s feature film its winner, whilst the international press recognised The Swallows of Kabul . Whilst the audience awards of the online festival organised by UniFrance and running 16 January to 16 February, MyFrenchFilmFestival, won’t be announced until the close of this 10th edition of the event (read our news), the Filmmakers’ Jury and that of the international press have already delivered their verdicts. School’s Out by Sébastien Marnier found favour with the Filmmakers’ Jury, presided over by American director Ira Sachs and composed of his fellow countryman Brady Corbet, Czech director Michaela Pavlatova, Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante and French actress Agathe Bonitzer. The film walks away with 15,000 euros. The vote of the international press jury, meanwhile, in the category of feature films, went to the animated title The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Éléa...
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
Jia Zhangke focuses on the prism of displacement: social, economic, political, spiritual. Ash Is Purest White, his latest dalliance with genre-inflected cinema, portrays a modern China stimulated and disrupted by the effects of globalism. But even as these changes motivate every aspect of the recursive narrative, they’re adjacent in this dual character study of a gangster and his moll. This film’s interest in time proves more platonic and freely cinematic as these characters travel through a world that’s left them behind. – Michael S.
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Arriving after her most abstract work,...
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
Jia Zhangke focuses on the prism of displacement: social, economic, political, spiritual. Ash Is Purest White, his latest dalliance with genre-inflected cinema, portrays a modern China stimulated and disrupted by the effects of globalism. But even as these changes motivate every aspect of the recursive narrative, they’re adjacent in this dual character study of a gangster and his moll. This film’s interest in time proves more platonic and freely cinematic as these characters travel through a world that’s left them behind. – Michael S.
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Arriving after her most abstract work,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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