Last Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the marriage of Paul Hewson and Ali Stewart. If those names aren't familiar to you, then you're probably not much of a U2 fan. … [Read more...]
20 Years Ago, U2 Moved in New and Mysterious Ways
November 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It was 20 years ago this weekend that U2's Achtung Baby landed in music stores like something from another planet. I was assigned to listen to the album and turn in a music review the next day to The Falcon, the student newspaper at Seattle Pacific University. So I joined the line of U2 fans at Tower Records for the midnight album release. Then I rushed back to my dorm, put on my headphones, and listened to the album four times through. It turned in my review at 4 a.m. and then slept a couple … [Read more...]
Fingertips: Anonymous; Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson; The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox; Woody Allen and Ethan Coen; Tom Waits; U2; Sara Zarr
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Are you excited about Anonymous, the movie that's going to shock the world by revealing the shocking truth? No, me either. Check this out, from a New York Times take-down of the film: The most troubling thing about Anonymous is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber. It’s not even that England’s virgin Queen Elizabeth is turned into a wantonly promiscuous woman who is revealed to be both the lover and mother of de Vere. Rather, it’s that in making the case for de … [Read more...]
U2 GQ
September 8, 2011 By
U2 are GQ's Men of the Year. I noted this in an earlier post, but now... … [Read more...]
Fingertips: Wendell Berry; Submarine and Buck; U2 documentary; Feist; Ollabelle; Favorite Film of 2010 now on Blu-Ray; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Cinderella; and more.
August 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here are several fingertips, poking at you until you poke at the links I've discovered... … [Read more...]
U2 fans: Ready for “Killing Bono”?
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
/Film has details and a trailer for the upcoming film about the early days of U2. … [Read more...]
Eno déjà vu.
November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As I discovered the cover art for Brian Eno's exciting new instrumental work Small Craft on a Milk Sea - which happens to sound like a sequel to his Passengers collaboration with U2 - I thought, Wow. That looks really familiar. Then I remembered this... … [Read more...]
Get on your boots.
May 10, 2010 By 3 Comments
This June, as I get in line for my second encounter with the U2360 tour, fans will be enjoying the DVD of their Rose Bowl show. Here's the trailer... … [Read more...]
Remake and Hum
April 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
The prolific French director Patrice Leconte made a wonderful movie called Man on the Train several years ago about a professor and a bank robber who trade lives for a day. A Canadian remake is now underway starring Donald Sutherland and... wait... really? … [Read more...]
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