This Riverdale review contains spoilers.
Riverdale Season 6 Episode 22
“We should all be together for whatever’s coming.”
Why do I still try to predict what will happen on Riverdale? That is the question I found myself repeatedly asking while I sat down to write this review of the show’s sixth season finale. This is not a series that operates by any logistical sense, nor do the words of critics have any impact on the head-scratching journey that it takes its viewers on. It is in many ways a confounding program. It will leave certain plot points dangling for months only to wrap them up with such breakneck speed that audiences are left with the television equivalent of whiplash.
To be clear: Riverdale is objectively not “good” television. Yet its what-the-fuck nature is so transgressive that the series is, in fact, great. Say what you will about its audacious tendency...
Riverdale Season 6 Episode 22
“We should all be together for whatever’s coming.”
Why do I still try to predict what will happen on Riverdale? That is the question I found myself repeatedly asking while I sat down to write this review of the show’s sixth season finale. This is not a series that operates by any logistical sense, nor do the words of critics have any impact on the head-scratching journey that it takes its viewers on. It is in many ways a confounding program. It will leave certain plot points dangling for months only to wrap them up with such breakneck speed that audiences are left with the television equivalent of whiplash.
To be clear: Riverdale is objectively not “good” television. Yet its what-the-fuck nature is so transgressive that the series is, in fact, great. Say what you will about its audacious tendency...
- 8/1/2022
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
The super-slick, super-sick Rick and Morty brand is known for many things: the warped, borderline-abusive dynamic between its titular characters, its deliciously dark humour, the gleefulness it takes in capsizing the conventions of a thousand genre tropes. Then there are the catch-phrases, and the colourful cast of supporting characters – everything from fatally-depressed Mr Meseeks to embedded family friends like Mr Poopybutthole. What really characterises it though, is death. That it’s not the first association you make with the show is possibly a by-product of there being so damn much of it that it stops registering.
There are long deaths, slow deaths, good deaths, bad deaths, sad deaths, funky deaths, perfunctory deaths, ironic deaths, iconic deaths, horrid deaths, hilarious deaths and hectares of borderline disturbing deaths.
Here are the most gruesome, in all their gory glory, season by season. (It’s a testament to Rick and Morty’s perpetually heavy...
There are long deaths, slow deaths, good deaths, bad deaths, sad deaths, funky deaths, perfunctory deaths, ironic deaths, iconic deaths, horrid deaths, hilarious deaths and hectares of borderline disturbing deaths.
Here are the most gruesome, in all their gory glory, season by season. (It’s a testament to Rick and Morty’s perpetually heavy...
- 9/8/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
As Mistress America opens this weekend to rave reviews, Greta Gerwig’s role says as much about Manhattan now as did Holly Golightly in 1961
The actress Greta Gerwig surely deserves to receive the keys to New York in recognition of her on-screen celebrations of that city. Two years ago, in Frances Ha, she played an eternally jubilant dancer who ping-ponged between apartments without ever finding her place, either figuratively or literally. Now she is playing another wayward New York dreamer in Mistress America, again co-written by Gerwig and the director Noah Baumbach, who happens also to be her partner.
While Mistress America is still enamoured of New York life, its affection is complicated by age, wisdom and reality. Brooke, played by Gerwig, has reached 30 without achieving anything of consequence. Though she behaves like a grande dame in the presence of her teenage protegee, it has dawned on her that she...
The actress Greta Gerwig surely deserves to receive the keys to New York in recognition of her on-screen celebrations of that city. Two years ago, in Frances Ha, she played an eternally jubilant dancer who ping-ponged between apartments without ever finding her place, either figuratively or literally. Now she is playing another wayward New York dreamer in Mistress America, again co-written by Gerwig and the director Noah Baumbach, who happens also to be her partner.
While Mistress America is still enamoured of New York life, its affection is complicated by age, wisdom and reality. Brooke, played by Gerwig, has reached 30 without achieving anything of consequence. Though she behaves like a grande dame in the presence of her teenage protegee, it has dawned on her that she...
- 8/16/2015
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
It may not at first make sense that two such fundamentally different acting styles as Bill Nighy’s and Carey Mulligan’s should co-exist in — and mutually enhance — one play. And yet here they are in David Hare’s Skylight, a monkey and a moonbeam, somehow bringing the same story to thrilling life. Nighy, as will be obvious to anyone who saw him in Love Actually or as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, is the monkey, or perhaps better to call him a Catherine wheel of tics and poses and stutters and quirks. “Mannered” is not a strong enough word to describe the way he creates the illusion of character from a million incessant, if apparently spontaneous, affectations. (At several points, he struts across the stage sideways, his long legs pointing into the wings while his face stares down the audience.) Meanwhile, as she did in...
- 4/3/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Interview Simon Brew 28 Mar 2014 - 06:15
We talk to the director of Muppets Most Wanted, James Bobin, about the film, about Alice In Wonderland 2, and about Jason Statham...
Heading into UK cinemas today is the brand new Muppets movie, Muppets Most Wanted. Directed once more by James Bobin, he spared us some time to talk about working with The Muppets, the complexities, the preparation, the bits that were cut and more. Here's how it went...
Mild spoilers for Muppets Most Wanted lie ahead...
The Muppets continue to popularise quite an old fashioned craft. More than just puppeteering, too. What are your feelings on it? Because my understanding of doing a Muppets film is that the preparation is arduous, the shoot is arduous, the post-production is a little bit lighter?
It is to a degree, but remember too that in post we have to deal with the fact that they...
We talk to the director of Muppets Most Wanted, James Bobin, about the film, about Alice In Wonderland 2, and about Jason Statham...
Heading into UK cinemas today is the brand new Muppets movie, Muppets Most Wanted. Directed once more by James Bobin, he spared us some time to talk about working with The Muppets, the complexities, the preparation, the bits that were cut and more. Here's how it went...
Mild spoilers for Muppets Most Wanted lie ahead...
The Muppets continue to popularise quite an old fashioned craft. More than just puppeteering, too. What are your feelings on it? Because my understanding of doing a Muppets film is that the preparation is arduous, the shoot is arduous, the post-production is a little bit lighter?
It is to a degree, but remember too that in post we have to deal with the fact that they...
- 3/27/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Nuditayyyyy! Okay, I can’t begin to tell you the exact increment by which my Sunday night is improved when my premium cable show du jour teases me with an Ma/N/L/V rating, but it’s probably somewhere between winning the lottery and discovering that the sperm I donated back in college has resulted in my having over 400 children who can now support me in old age. Except when that all-important N is a complete misdirect. More on that later. It’s time to get Looking!
Patrick (Jonathan Groff) doesn’t like Kevin‘s (Russell Tovey) new game (and no, that’s not a metaphor, except for when it is) – and Kevin can tell from the look on his face. Patrick counters, “this is my normal everyday face.” Spoken like a true sociopath! I can’t get a good read on what this new game is all about,...
Patrick (Jonathan Groff) doesn’t like Kevin‘s (Russell Tovey) new game (and no, that’s not a metaphor, except for when it is) – and Kevin can tell from the look on his face. Patrick counters, “this is my normal everyday face.” Spoken like a true sociopath! I can’t get a good read on what this new game is all about,...
- 2/10/2014
- by Brian Juergens
- The Backlot
Happy St. Catherine’s Day, one and all! It may not have the prestige of St. George’s Day or the tasty pancakes of Shrove Tuesday*, but today’s saint can offer a glimpse of one of Peter O’Toole’s films. Katherine Of Alexandria, the O’Toole-starring account of the martyr, has a new trailer to share its saintly wares. brightcove.createExperiences(); She may not be a household name – unless you’re reading this in an Estonian household, in which case, Tere! – but Catherine (Nicole Keniheart) has a fascinating back story for the film to explore. Famously beautiful, she was invited to marry the Emperor Maximinus II, an “invitation” in name only. Catherine turned him down, dedicating her life to Christ instead, and in one of history’s earliest recorded sense of humour failures, he sentenced her to death.The bridal refusenik was first attached to a spiked wheel...
- 11/25/2013
- EmpireOnline
Odd List Simon Brew Ryan Lambie 26 Sep 2013 - 07:09
The year 1991 is the focus for our latest underappreciated films list, which includes dramas, thrillers, and a smattering of horror...
Ah, 1991. The year Robert Patrick ran after cars in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and Kevin Costner grew a spectacular mullet for Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. But outside the top ten blockbuster list, there lies an entire world of other, less celebrated films to discover.
Some of the movies on this list have been included because they were overlooked in theatres, while others have been added because they were unfairly dismissed by critics. One or two others were modest successes, but (whisper it) we decided to include them anyway because we really, really like them.
So here, for your delectation, is our pick of 25 underappreciated films from 1991.
25. Deceived
You think Goldie Hawn, you tend to think comedy, or her Oscar-nominated turn in Private Benjamin.
The year 1991 is the focus for our latest underappreciated films list, which includes dramas, thrillers, and a smattering of horror...
Ah, 1991. The year Robert Patrick ran after cars in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and Kevin Costner grew a spectacular mullet for Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. But outside the top ten blockbuster list, there lies an entire world of other, less celebrated films to discover.
Some of the movies on this list have been included because they were overlooked in theatres, while others have been added because they were unfairly dismissed by critics. One or two others were modest successes, but (whisper it) we decided to include them anyway because we really, really like them.
So here, for your delectation, is our pick of 25 underappreciated films from 1991.
25. Deceived
You think Goldie Hawn, you tend to think comedy, or her Oscar-nominated turn in Private Benjamin.
- 9/25/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
It's been a busy week for living Catherine Wheel Adam Lambert, with his 31st birthday on Tuesday, and on Thursday night he received the Unity Award from the We Are Family Foundation for his work with The Trevor Project, Equality California, and GLAAD.
After the ceremony, Adam hit the stage with Nile Rodgers and fellow out singer Sam Sparro. Below you can see them jam fantastically on Adam's "Shady," and then enjoy some pics of Adam on stage and with some pre-ceremony guests.
Adam Lambert and Sean Young. Now I can die happy.
With Rosie Perez and Nile Rodgers
With Kate Pierson, Taylor Dayne, and Nile Rodgers
With Sam Sparro
With a photographic print taken by Timothy Greenfield Sanders
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After the ceremony, Adam hit the stage with Nile Rodgers and fellow out singer Sam Sparro. Below you can see them jam fantastically on Adam's "Shady," and then enjoy some pics of Adam on stage and with some pre-ceremony guests.
Adam Lambert and Sean Young. Now I can die happy.
With Rosie Perez and Nile Rodgers
With Kate Pierson, Taylor Dayne, and Nile Rodgers
With Sam Sparro
With a photographic print taken by Timothy Greenfield Sanders
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- 2/2/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Francesco Clemente: Nostalgia/Utopia Mary Boone Gallery Through June 30, 2012
In both his work and his life, Francesco Clemente has made a career of breaking down boundaries. His multimedia approach to art -- through painting, sculpture, photography, and bookmaking -- and his peripatetic, nomad-like lifestyle share a common theme of restlessness and ambiguity. In his recent exhibition at Mary Boone, he has created a suite of paintings that reinforce our impression of him, painting works that run through Colonial Baroque, Afro-Brazilian, Indian, and Modernist iconographies. The strategies employed here, drawing on a variety of sources and influences, seek to present some commonality of experience, of shared ideas.
Here Clemente stays within the lines of paint and objects fixed to canvases, while allowing his stylistic noodlings free range, combining his imagery with a poetic grace. Although individual motifs in Clemente’s pictures can be linked to his change-of-address living arrangements (homes in New York,...
In both his work and his life, Francesco Clemente has made a career of breaking down boundaries. His multimedia approach to art -- through painting, sculpture, photography, and bookmaking -- and his peripatetic, nomad-like lifestyle share a common theme of restlessness and ambiguity. In his recent exhibition at Mary Boone, he has created a suite of paintings that reinforce our impression of him, painting works that run through Colonial Baroque, Afro-Brazilian, Indian, and Modernist iconographies. The strategies employed here, drawing on a variety of sources and influences, seek to present some commonality of experience, of shared ideas.
Here Clemente stays within the lines of paint and objects fixed to canvases, while allowing his stylistic noodlings free range, combining his imagery with a poetic grace. Although individual motifs in Clemente’s pictures can be linked to his change-of-address living arrangements (homes in New York,...
- 5/18/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Computer-generated motion picture animation from “Vertigo” to “Toy Story” to the 3D spectacles of today will be explored during “The Development of the Digital Animator,” the latest installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, on Monday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Several pioneers of digital animation will revisit the long path from laboratory to cineplex during a panel moderated by animator and historian Tom Sito.
When “Toy Story” burst onto the scene in 1995, computer-generated imagery was, for many, a bold new technique in animation. However, its lengthy and meticulous development can be traced back to its first public exposure with the mesmerizing title sequence for “Vertigo” (1958). Of equal importance to the technical developments were the influential animators and designers who devised artistic uses for engineering advances.
Scheduled panelists include:
Rebecca Allen, an experimental filmmaker...
When “Toy Story” burst onto the scene in 1995, computer-generated imagery was, for many, a bold new technique in animation. However, its lengthy and meticulous development can be traced back to its first public exposure with the mesmerizing title sequence for “Vertigo” (1958). Of equal importance to the technical developments were the influential animators and designers who devised artistic uses for engineering advances.
Scheduled panelists include:
Rebecca Allen, an experimental filmmaker...
- 5/2/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
**Updated with official word from Stephen King** Stephen King shows no signs of slowing down. Last November we saw the release of 11/22/63 and The Wind Through the Keyhole is schedule for wide release later this month. The Shining sequel, title Dr. Sleep, isn’t expected until next year, so it made fans wonder if King would release a new book between now and then. We aren’t sure when this book will be released, but it has been revealed that he’s working on a new story revolving around an amusement park serial killer.
This news comes from a recent interview conducted by Neil Gaiman in The Times: “That’s the desk that King sits at every day, and it is where he writes. Right now he’s writing a book called Joyland, about an amusement park serial killer. Below the window is a patch of well-fenced land, with an...
This news comes from a recent interview conducted by Neil Gaiman in The Times: “That’s the desk that King sits at every day, and it is where he writes. Right now he’s writing a book called Joyland, about an amusement park serial killer. Below the window is a patch of well-fenced land, with an...
- 4/11/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Around these parts when prolific horror author Stephen King talks, we listen, and believe you me this is something that you cats are going to want to hear about!
In addition to King's sequel to The Shining called Dr. Sleep, the master of horror is currently at work on a new slasher tale entitled Joyland.
According to author Neil Gaiman, who recently interviewed King for the UK Sunday Times Magazine, the book will be "about an amusement park serial killer.”
Later on in the interview King jokes about his own death and how his son, Joe Hill, could finish it if he couldn't.
“So if I got hit by a taxi cab, like Margaret Mitchell ... 'Joyland' wouldn’t be done but Joe could finish it, in a breeze. His style is almost indistinguishable from mine. His ideas are better than mine. Being around Joe is like being next to a Catherine Wheel throwing off sparks,...
In addition to King's sequel to The Shining called Dr. Sleep, the master of horror is currently at work on a new slasher tale entitled Joyland.
According to author Neil Gaiman, who recently interviewed King for the UK Sunday Times Magazine, the book will be "about an amusement park serial killer.”
Later on in the interview King jokes about his own death and how his son, Joe Hill, could finish it if he couldn't.
“So if I got hit by a taxi cab, like Margaret Mitchell ... 'Joyland' wouldn’t be done but Joe could finish it, in a breeze. His style is almost indistinguishable from mine. His ideas are better than mine. Being around Joe is like being next to a Catherine Wheel throwing off sparks,...
- 4/10/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Monday is July 4th, on which Americans celebrate their independence from good taste and in some cases, fingers (fireworks go "Boom!"). It's the one day of the year that common sense is replaced by drunken rounds of Marco Polo and dangerous and unnecessary pyrotechnics.
It's all ooh's and aah's until the Catherine Wheel breaks from its moorings and rolls down the hillside, as screaming children and inebriated fools in porkpie flag hats run for cover.
Or at least, that's what I'm always secretly praying for.
In the spirit of the holiday, we've decided to honor some of our favorite all-American patriots!
Okay, some of these guys may not actually be American, and we may be stretching the use of "patriot" a bit, but these are all guys we have no problem saluting (and they can pull off red, white, and blue).
Gabriel Martin, The Patriot
Played by Australian Heath Ledger,...
It's all ooh's and aah's until the Catherine Wheel breaks from its moorings and rolls down the hillside, as screaming children and inebriated fools in porkpie flag hats run for cover.
Or at least, that's what I'm always secretly praying for.
In the spirit of the holiday, we've decided to honor some of our favorite all-American patriots!
Okay, some of these guys may not actually be American, and we may be stretching the use of "patriot" a bit, but these are all guys we have no problem saluting (and they can pull off red, white, and blue).
Gabriel Martin, The Patriot
Played by Australian Heath Ledger,...
- 7/1/2011
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Carolina Chocolate Drops Durham bluegrass trio Carolina Chocolate Drops is comprised of vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Dom Flemons, Justin Robinson, and Rhiannon Giddens. In the mid-aughts, the Drops found their way under the guidance of Americana fiddler royal Joe Thompson. With five releases to collect, get started with "Kissin' and Cussin'," from the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig. Buy: Amazon.com Genre: Bluegrass/Folk Artist: Carolina Chocolate Drops Song: Kissin' and Cussin' Album: Genuine Negro Jig Slowdive Shoegaze quintet Slowdive was founded in 1989 by U.K. school friends Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell (vocals/guitar). Nick Chaplin (bass), Christian Savill (guitar), and Ian McCutcheon (drums) would fill out the pack. (Simon Scott and Adrian Sell also took turns on drums.) Slowdive issued over a dozen recordings until its disbandment in the mid-'90s. Halstead, McCutcheon, and Goswell went on to form Mojave 3. Collaborations/shared stages include Brian Eno, Blur, and Catherine Wheel.
- 7/9/2010
- by Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin
- Huffington Post
Russell Brand knew he would "change" as soon as he saw Katy Perry. The British funny man, who has been dating the singer since last September, insists he always puts his fiancee first and is happy to have renounced his womanizing ways.
"I knew as soon as I saw her. My instinct was to change myself and not her. And that is a really positive thing," he said. "In the past, I would plunder my way through life, elbowing things out of the way, and I don't really compromise very much unless people want to persuade me that it's necessary."
"But with Katy, I wanted to listen to her and let her be who she is. I'd never want to do anything she didn't want. She's a whirling Catherine wheel of a person."
The "Get Him to the Greek" star also admitted monogamy has given him a lot more free time.
"I knew as soon as I saw her. My instinct was to change myself and not her. And that is a really positive thing," he said. "In the past, I would plunder my way through life, elbowing things out of the way, and I don't really compromise very much unless people want to persuade me that it's necessary."
"But with Katy, I wanted to listen to her and let her be who she is. I'd never want to do anything she didn't want. She's a whirling Catherine wheel of a person."
The "Get Him to the Greek" star also admitted monogamy has given him a lot more free time.
- 6/11/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
The upcoming historical feature Catherine of Alexandria is prepping to start at Pinewood Studios UK. Following the recent discovery of the 4th Century diary of 'Saint Catherine', the film will tell the story of her torture on a wheel of spikes at the hands of the Roman despot Maximus in 329 Ad. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and Great Martyr Saint Catherine, is claimed to have been a scholar in the early 4th century. What is told of her life is composed of legends, that she was the daughter of 'Costus', governor of Alexandria and one day announced to her parents that she would marry someone who surpassed her in everything, such that "His beauty was more radiant than the shining of the sun, His wisdom governed all creation, and His riches were spread throughout all the world." She visited the Roman Emperor and...
- 11/25/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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