"We have forgotten to masturbate!"
So proclaims Pope Pius Xiii to the adoring throngs gathered in St. Peter's Square to hear the first homily of his papacy. Yet when it comes to the jaw-dropping moments in the premiere episode of The Young Pope, the Holy Father's ode to onanism barely even makes the Top 10.
Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino kicks off his highly anticipated series with the surreal dream-image of the new pope emerging from a literal mountain of dead and dying babies. He follows it up with not one but...
So proclaims Pope Pius Xiii to the adoring throngs gathered in St. Peter's Square to hear the first homily of his papacy. Yet when it comes to the jaw-dropping moments in the premiere episode of The Young Pope, the Holy Father's ode to onanism barely even makes the Top 10.
Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino kicks off his highly anticipated series with the surreal dream-image of the new pope emerging from a literal mountain of dead and dying babies. He follows it up with not one but...
- 1/16/2017
- Rollingstone.com
A sexy, gritty reboot of The Wizard of Oz. It sounds like something Jack Donaghy would dream up on 30 Rock, doesn’t it? Yet Emerald City isn’t a 10-second sitcom joke; it’s a 10-hour actual thing that NBC has created. And while it displays some dazzling visual flair and is plenty ambitious in its scope, like a certain famous Scarecrow, this ponderous revamp doesn’t seem to have much of a brain at all.
Debuting Friday, Jan. 6 at 9/8c, Emerald City begins, appropriately enough, in Kansas, with a grown-up Dorothy Gale (True Detective‘s Adria Arjona) searching for...
Debuting Friday, Jan. 6 at 9/8c, Emerald City begins, appropriately enough, in Kansas, with a grown-up Dorothy Gale (True Detective‘s Adria Arjona) searching for...
- 1/3/2017
- TVLine.com
This is not just a dream (just a dream) (just a dream) for acoustic troubadour Aaron Gibson.
Nope, as the earwormy theme song tells us, “this is The Voice.” And as you’ll see in TVLine’s exclusive preview of Tuesday’s episode (8/7c on NBC), Gibson’s Blind Audition cover of “Losing My Religion” could be the start of a dream come true.
RelatedRatings: This Is Us Opens Strong, No. 2 for the Night; Bull Matches NCIS
Gibson’s quiet-storm of a rasp injects fresh, mournful energy into R.E.M.’s classic — resulting in a three-chair turn.
Press Play above for...
Nope, as the earwormy theme song tells us, “this is The Voice.” And as you’ll see in TVLine’s exclusive preview of Tuesday’s episode (8/7c on NBC), Gibson’s Blind Audition cover of “Losing My Religion” could be the start of a dream come true.
RelatedRatings: This Is Us Opens Strong, No. 2 for the Night; Bull Matches NCIS
Gibson’s quiet-storm of a rasp injects fresh, mournful energy into R.E.M.’s classic — resulting in a three-chair turn.
Press Play above for...
- 9/23/2016
- TVLine.com
Michael Stipe will make his most high-profile solo appearance since the dissolution of R.E.M. when the singer performs on the March 29th episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The show's official website confirms that Stipe will appear on Tuesday's episode, his first visit to a late-night program since he dropped by The Colbert Report's series finale for an all-star sing-along.
Stipe has staged a few live appearances since the R.E.M. breakup, most notably serving as Patti Smith's surprise opening act at a series of Smith concerts,...
Stipe has staged a few live appearances since the R.E.M. breakup, most notably serving as Patti Smith's surprise opening act at a series of Smith concerts,...
- 3/26/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Tyler Ward and Kurt Hugo Schneider just took a happy song and made it… better? We’ll let you be the judge. Ward and Schneider, who both found stardom on YouTube, covered The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” with this twist: They performed it in a minor key instead of the F major key in which it was originally written and recorded. Check out the video with their new, all-the-more-melancholy take on the Fab Four’s beloved song below: If you want to hear The Beatles performing “Hey Jude” in a minor key (with the help of some digital editing), you can check that out here, in a video that hit the web a couple years ago. Similarly, the reverse has been done before to transpose songs written in a minor key into a major key, like this shinier, happier version of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” and this reworking of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,...
- 10/26/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Beverly Hills, 90210, which debuted on October 4th, 1990 on the then-fledgling Fox network. A primetime soap opera aimed specifically at teens, it ostensibly chronicled twins Brandon (Jason Priestly) and Brenda (Shannon Doherty) Walsh and their family as they adjusted to life in posh Beverly Hills after relocating from suburban Minneapolis. But even from the beginning (and well after Brenda and Brandon both became well-entrenched amongst their peers), it was also as focused on addressing topical issues as it was the tumultuous and ever-changing relationships of its main characters (to varying degrees of success and subtlety). Over the course of the show’s 10 year run (it went off the air in May 2000), characters got together and broke up and made up and got back together again, and the show tackled everything from divorce to alcoholism, AIDS, adoption, eating disorders, rape, domestic abuse, infidelity, drug usage on multiple levels,...
- 10/11/2015
- by Austin Gorton
- SoundOnSight
Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore star in a new comedy drama, about friends facing illness. Here's our review...
Cancer is a real bastard of a disease and there's no shortage of fictionalised takes on the subject. While some err towards either the trite or the tragic, comedy drama Miss You Already bowls straight down the middle with its tale of female friendship through the roughest times in their lives.
Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore) are childhood friends who have always shared everything. When Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer, she seems to struggle more with the emotional rigours of being around her loved ones than the course of chemotherapy which she must undergo.
Despite the stress of exploring IVF treatments so that she can have a baby with her husband Jago (Paddy Considine), Jess puts everything on hold for her. This proves difficult when Milly goes into denial...
Cancer is a real bastard of a disease and there's no shortage of fictionalised takes on the subject. While some err towards either the trite or the tragic, comedy drama Miss You Already bowls straight down the middle with its tale of female friendship through the roughest times in their lives.
Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore) are childhood friends who have always shared everything. When Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer, she seems to struggle more with the emotional rigours of being around her loved ones than the course of chemotherapy which she must undergo.
Despite the stress of exploring IVF treatments so that she can have a baby with her husband Jago (Paddy Considine), Jess puts everything on hold for her. This proves difficult when Milly goes into denial...
- 9/28/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Single director seasons has been a rising trend in television, with last season providing the two most notable examples in HBO’s True Detective and Cinemax’s The Knick, with David Fincher and David Lynch poised to do the same with Utopia and Twin Peaks respectively in subsequent seasons. To date, however, the trend has been limited to cable channels. NBC, however, is jumping into the ring as well, as reports have now emerged that the network channel has tapped director Tarsem Singh to direct all ten episodes of its upcoming series Emerald City.
Tarsem, whose latest feature Self/Less is currently in theatres, is known to most film fans for his work on the 2006 feature The Fall. He currently has five features under his belt, along with an assortment of music videos, including that of Rem’s Losing My Religion, but has yet to work in television.
Emerald City...
Tarsem, whose latest feature Self/Less is currently in theatres, is known to most film fans for his work on the 2006 feature The Fall. He currently has five features under his belt, along with an assortment of music videos, including that of Rem’s Losing My Religion, but has yet to work in television.
Emerald City...
- 7/14/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
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