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MLK Jr Day, Father John Misty, Erase Errata, The Lone Bellow, Maru & Hana   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 19, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

FATHER JOHN MISTY debuts three new songs from his forthcoming new album I Love You, Honeybear.

ERASE ERRATA advance streams Lost Weekend.

JESSICA PRATT advance streams On Your Own Love Again.

THE LONE BELLOW advance streams Then Came The Morning.

AMASON advance streams Sky City.

SWINGS advance streams their debut, Detergent Hymns.

FIDLAR covers Sheryl Crow's “If It Makes You Happy."

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

PANDA BEAR: Noah Lennox lists his 13 favorite formative albums at The Quietus.

BETTYE LaVETTE : Having worked with James Brown, almost married Otis Redding and dropped acid with George Clinton, the veteran singer considers herself the nearly-woman of soul.

DOLLY PARTON cut a deal with the Peacock for a series of TV movies based on her “songs, stories and inspiring life.”

THE 10 BEST GREATFUL DEAD SONGS, according to Stereogum.

KIM FOWLEY, The Runaways' producer (who also worked with The Modern Lovers, Kiss, and others), and notorious L.A. music legend has died. In recent months, he had been undergoing cancer treatments, though no cause of death has been announced. He was 75.  The Guardian has a great profile of the man and his long, strange career.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: American Sniper easily dominates the chart with 90.2 million. And likely 100 million after MLK Jr day.  That's twice what most predicted.  That's a record January opening. In fact, it's more than twice the previous record (Ride Along). That's a record for any Clint Eastwood movie. It's the second largest R-rated opening ever, behind The Matrix ReloadedThe Wedding Ringer places with 21 million, the best opening ever for an R-rated comedy in January (Kevin Hart's PG-rated Ride Along did twice as well). Impressive giventhat rating, the reviews, and the competition from the Sniper. Paddington shows with 19.3  million, not bad given that the bear is much bigger in Europe, where he's already grossed 122 million.  Last week's champ, Taken 3, plummets 64 percent to the fourth slot with 14 million.  Liam Neeson & Co.are the cinema's biggest victim of the Sniper, though this threequel is already profitable.  Selma rounds out the Top 5 with 8.3 million on a 26 percent drop, staying leggy for the MLK Jr Day weekend depite a relative lack of Oscar nominations. Below the fold, Blackhat--boasting Chris Hemsworth and a 70 million budget--debuts at No. 10 with 4 million. Ouch.

AMERICAN SNIPER may not be Clint Eastwood's best movie, but it is a solid war movie that balances the suspense and tragedy of battle with the toll war takes on Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the tituar protagonist. Indeed, I wonder if there isn't a faint echo of Dirty Harry Callahan to be found in Kyle's obsessiveness by his fourth tour. The film takes artistic license in this biopic, mostly in omitting some of Kyle's less heroic moments (the people complainting about this seem far less concerned with the same regarding Selma).  Hollywood does this. Eastwood, having been in at least his share of war films, knows how to shoot battle sequences, though he doesn't shoot them often (Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers in 2006). He's a bit less deft on the home front here; ironically this is where the film is at its most steretypical.  Even so, Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller both turn in solid performances; Cooper's may be a bit overrated, insofar as he was a lot of experience playing characters who are wound a bit too tight, though here it sits just  beneath a stoic facade. Were I in the Academy, I might have voted to nominate Gone Girl over this one, but I might have voted for both.

JENNIFER ANISTON is really, really tired of the media constantly pitting her against Angelina Jolie.

DYLAN McDERMOTT & MAGGIE Q are engaged after a whirlwind romance.

GREASE LIVE casts Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens.

EMILY BLUNT is in negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth in Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman sequel The Huntsman.

BELGIUM: A terror cell on the brink of carrying out an attack was the target of a raid Thursday that left two suspects dead. A Western Intelligence source told CNN that the ongoing terror threat appears to involve up to 20 sleeper cells of between 120 to 180 people ready to strike in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The source said that European Union and Middle East intelligence agencies identified an "imminent threat" to Belgium, possibly also to the Netherlands.

YEMEN's Houthi movement pulled out of a meeting with the country’s other main political and regional factions on a new constitution after its fighters abducted a top government official.

AF-PAK: The Islamic State terror group is recruiting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Thursday.

MARU & HANA battle over control of the red bed.

MASHA THE CAT has been hailed a hero after finding an abandoned baby in a street and climbing in the box he had been left in to protect him from the cold.

DEER INVADE NYC, and we don't know how to stop them.

JAXSON THE ALLIGATOR was not munching on neighborhood cats, the female crocodilian’s human family said Thursday.

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