Youth In Revolt - The Broken
Following up on 2014’s “Love Is A Liar’s Game” EP, New Jersey’s Youth In Revolt have finally released their debut album.
Following up on 2014’s “Love Is A Liar’s Game” EP, New Jersey’s Youth In Revolt have finally released their debut album.
Fuck these guys. Right? They kept us waiting for five years and now they just expect us to be all like ‘this is awesome’? No way! But holy crap, that opening track is ridiculously good.
Chicago’s Meat Wave are back at it with “The Incessant”, the name frontman Chris Sutter gave to the all-encompassing anxiety he felt following the demise of a long-time relationship.
Basically, this is a remake of a re-imagining. First there was Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai, then there was John Sturges re-imagining in 1960 and now there is Antoine Fuqua’s remake of that western.
From the stoned minds of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill comes Sausage Party, an incredibly foul-mouthed, R-rated take on a Pixar movie.
Based on the 2012 novel by Dave Eggers, A Hologram For The King is about Alan Clay, an American businessman played by Tom Hanks, who is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. While he waits for an appointment that keeps getting postponed, he befriends a local cab driver (Alexander Black), worries about a lump the size of a golf ball on his back and flirts with a Danish contractor (Sidse Babett Knudsen) before falling for a local doctor (Sarita Choudhury).
Following an ‘incident’ at an isolated lab, a risk management consultant (played by Kate Mara) working for a shady corporation is being sent in to evaluate the situation. The incident involves a humanoid being called Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), stabbing one of her creators in the eye. All this is explained in the first couple of minutes through surveillance footage and a handy, information-packed voice-over.
Based on the first book of Ransom Riggs’ young adult novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is director Tim Burton’s latest Gothic-tinged movie. This one follows Jake Portman (an uninspired, wide-eyed Asa Butterfield), a kid living in Southern Florida who grew up with his grandfather’s fantastic tales about living in a home on a Welsh island during WWII with Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) and some… well, peculiar children.
When three twentysomething thieves (Jane Levy, Daniel Zovatto and Dylan Minnette) break into the house of an aging war veteran (played with gusto by Stephan Lang), it seems like an easy score. After all, the guy is blind so what is he going to do? Blink at them? Turns out the guy, who is supposedly keeping 300 grand stashed in his place, is not nearly as harmless as they thought he would be. Getting into the house was the easy part, getting out turns out to be a wholly different affair.
On his fifth album and first since 2014’s breakthrough album “HEAL”, Timothy Showalter is more rock ‘n roll than ever before.