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It’s that of the month again when my friend Lily and I have put together another (hopefully) interesting and diverse lineup of interviews over at Gothamist. We start this week with comedy producer Jeff Singer. Jeff produces Eating It, a weekly comedy show every Monday night at Luna Lounge. (Luna is, of course, co-owned byContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: DEC. DAY 1 – JEFF SINGER”

Saturday night at Bowery Ballroom I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Ted Leo perform for the first time. It wasn’t until earlier this year that I even discovered Leo’s music, and ever since I’ve been a huge fan. But three previous times when I knew he was playing, I wasn’t able to go. SoContinue reading “TED LEO: PUSHING IT UP TO 11”

The promotion has been going on for a couple weeks already. Harvey is doing his best to get Marty that director’s Oscar. Leo took over half a Friday’s Dateline NBC. CNN and Miramax have partnered for their own promotional push (which is interesting considering that this translates to Time Warner and Disney making nice-nice). AndContinue reading “THE AVIATOR COMMETH: IN DEFENSE OF SCORSESE”

I’m upset. On Tuesday I mentioned how much I wanted to get down to Film Forum this week in order to see (for the first time) Pickup on South Street and This Gun For Hire this week, but unfortunately my schedule didn’t permit me to get to either. While it’s always better to see theseContinue reading “SOME ESSENTIAL ESSENTIALS: THESE WOMEN CAN BE FATALE“

Let’s just get this out of the way right up front. Blade:Trinity sucks. It more than sucks. It’s an absolute mess. We’re talking right up there with The Day After Tomorrow as Razzie favorites. I enjoyed the first film well enough. It was a fun vampire action movie. Blade II benefited from the presence ofContinue reading “BLADE: BROUGHT TO YOU BY APPLE – WHEN YOU NEED TO KICK SOME VAMPIRE ASS, SOUNDTRACK YOURSELF WITH AN iPOD”

Just a few random thoughts before I have to be away from a computer for the rest of the day. (The Horror! The Horror!) I didn’t see this anywhere else, although maybe I just missed it, but while watching like 10 minutes of Monday Night Football on, well, Monday, during one of the bumpers eitherContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: RANDOM HUMP DAY MUSINGS”

Lily and I are preparing another week of Gothamist interviews (which will start next Monday), and work has been abnormally extremely busy, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to write this week, but I absolutely want to keep plugging the magnificent “Essential Noir” series ongoing at Film Forum. Today and tomorrow featureContinue reading “NOIR IN BRIEF: BOGEY AND WIDMARK INVITE YOU DOWNTOWN”

Don’t expect too much from me today. I’m still recovering from an amazing GBV show last night. This was the first time I had ever seen them play, and since this is billed as their last show, and last night was the last of the last shows in New York, I guess I caught themContinue reading “PLEASANTLY WRECKED BY GBV, BUT DAMN NOW IT’S MONDAY”

Sunday may be Guided by Voices Day here in New York, in celebration of their “last ever” shows tonight, tomorrow and Sunday, but there’s a lot of special film programming occurring this weekend as well. Since I’m going to the Sunday show, I’ve got to figure out how to squeeze it all in. Closer isContinue reading “IS IT FRIDAY ALREADY? GUIDED BY WEEKEND FILMS”

“America’s new reality tops our news tonight.” And with those words, NBC’s evening newscast became The Nightly News with Brian Williams. Sure, he was really talking about more troops in Iraq to help prepare for the Jan. 30 “election,” as well as new appointments, and resignations, in the Bush administration. But this first line ofContinue reading “THERE GOES THE TORCH: HELLO BRIAN”