If your idea of a laugh riot is a high-school dreamboat being separated from his penis by an axe while treacly ‘80s classic “On the Wings of Love” soars on the soundtrack, then Lisa Frankenstein might be for you. So long as your frame of reference doesn’t go as far back as Edward Scissorhands. Diablo Cody’s screenplay about a maladjusted teen who finds a sense of purpose by bonding with a reanimated corpse delivers enough funny lines to make you want to cut it some slack for a minute. But Zelda Williams’ clunky direction soon stifles that good will as this retro-minded horror-comedy-romance lurches from scene to scene without ever building much steam.
Focus is positioning the release as a Valentine’s Day date movie for young audiences who like a touch of graveyard humor and gore with their canoodling. Maybe they’ll get a kick out of its garish candy colors,...
Focus is positioning the release as a Valentine’s Day date movie for young audiences who like a touch of graveyard humor and gore with their canoodling. Maybe they’ll get a kick out of its garish candy colors,...
- 2/7/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: LA’s Dances With Films celebrates 26 Years of storytelling June 22-July 2 at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
The festival will open with the World Premiere of Good Side of Bad, a powerful drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Beverly Olevin. Directed by Alethea Root and starring Jules Bruff (Zodiac), Lexi Simonsen (S.W.A.T.), Alex Quijano (High School Musical: The Series), Myles Grier (Lethal Weapon) and Academy Award Nominee Tess Harper, the film depicts a raw and intimate look into what it means to be a family navigating the waters of mental illness. Closing out the festival is Home Free by first time director Aaron Brown, and writer Lenny Barszap, a social impact Trojan horse disguised as a coming-of-age college comedy with a focus on homelessness.
Festival Founders Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent state “Looking toward our next quarter century,...
The festival will open with the World Premiere of Good Side of Bad, a powerful drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Beverly Olevin. Directed by Alethea Root and starring Jules Bruff (Zodiac), Lexi Simonsen (S.W.A.T.), Alex Quijano (High School Musical: The Series), Myles Grier (Lethal Weapon) and Academy Award Nominee Tess Harper, the film depicts a raw and intimate look into what it means to be a family navigating the waters of mental illness. Closing out the festival is Home Free by first time director Aaron Brown, and writer Lenny Barszap, a social impact Trojan horse disguised as a coming-of-age college comedy with a focus on homelessness.
Festival Founders Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent state “Looking toward our next quarter century,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead will be featured at the Salem Horror Fest, and we have info on the special screening. Also in today's Horror Highlights is an excerpt from Nicholas Forristal's Domitianus, stills from Midnighters, Dances with Films 2017 details, and the trailer for A24's Good Time.
Salem Horror Fest: Press Release: "Salem, Ma. - Salem Horror Fest, in partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum and CinemaSalem, today announced four weeks of screenings, parties, concerts, panels and exhibits that explore societal themes of fear and anxiety in horror at the Halloween capital of the world; Salem, Massachusetts
Amidst the notorious backdrop of the 1692 Witch Trials, the festival will feature a city-wide program set to kick off at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, September 21 as part of the Pem/Pm evening party series in conjunction with their upcoming exhibit “It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi...
Salem Horror Fest: Press Release: "Salem, Ma. - Salem Horror Fest, in partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum and CinemaSalem, today announced four weeks of screenings, parties, concerts, panels and exhibits that explore societal themes of fear and anxiety in horror at the Halloween capital of the world; Salem, Massachusetts
Amidst the notorious backdrop of the 1692 Witch Trials, the festival will feature a city-wide program set to kick off at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, September 21 as part of the Pem/Pm evening party series in conjunction with their upcoming exhibit “It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi...
- 5/17/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“There’s not a person walking this world that doesn’t have some suffering that they’re burdened by,” says Cary Ann Hearst, who, with her husband Michael Trent, make up the country folk duo Shovels & Rope. And damned if every single one of those people hasn’t stumbled into the various songs on “Swimmin’ Time,” Shovel & Rope’s searing new album, out now. The collection features tunes about down-on-their-luck folks who seek the higher road, but that shot at salvation sometimes seems just out of reach. On twangy “The Devil Is All Around,” a person drenched in fear travels down a path. He’s a “shell of a man,” but determined to become a better one. On the stomping, ominous title track, there’s nothing good coming around the bend. On swampy dark “Evil,” a tune HitFix premiered in July, two misfits, a young tomboy and an older man,...
- 9/3/2014
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, collectively known as Shovels & Rope, release their sophomore set “Swimmin’ Time,” Aug. 26. The set follows the husband and wife duo's highly acclaimed breakthrough, ‘O’ Be Joyful,” a set of largely acoustic tales that featured their voices wrapping around each other and slithering in and out of stomping melodies, especially on the semi-autobiographical, “Birmingham,” which was named Song of the Year at the 2013 Americana Music Awards. One of the best tunes on “Swimmin’ Time” is the swampy, dark “Evil,” a story about two misfits, a young tomboy and an older man, who is emotionally lost following the sudden death of his wife and an accident that leaves him brain damaged. “The rough little girl takes pity on him and his children, bringing them apples, him, cigarettes and helping with the kids,” Hearst and Trent tell HitFix. “Their interaction raises suspicion in the small town, and...
- 7/23/2014
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) — Husband-wife duo Shovels & Rope is the top nominee for this year's Americana Honors & Awards, but longtime favorites Buddy Miller and Emmylou Harris lurk nearby. Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent earned four nominations, including album, song and emerging artist of the year. Miller, the Americana Music Association's most-awarded artist, and Harris have three nominations apiece. The awards will be held Sept. 18 at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. The nominations were announced Tuesday in Los Angeles. Miller and Harris were nominated for top honor artist of the year with Dwight Yoakam and Richard Thompson. The...
- 5/14/2013
- by AP Staff
- Hitfix
New York -- The phrase "O' Be Joyful" is more than an album title for the country-rock duo Shovels & Rope. It's a command.
It's hard not to be swept up in the spirit watching Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent perform, switching off on guitars, harmonicas, a keyboard and makeshift drum set with tambourine attached. They've been compared to Johnny Cash and June Carter, although the vocal mix often recalls Exene Cervenka and John Doe of the punk band X.
They developed a following gradually, selling out every venue on their last tour and performing "Birmingham" on David Letterman's "Late Show." The song tells of the courtship of this Charleston, S.C.-based married couple.
"It solidified what we do for a living to our parents in a certain way," Hearst said. "Now that we're full-grown adults, our parents can relax in their easy chairs knowing that we managed...
It's hard not to be swept up in the spirit watching Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent perform, switching off on guitars, harmonicas, a keyboard and makeshift drum set with tambourine attached. They've been compared to Johnny Cash and June Carter, although the vocal mix often recalls Exene Cervenka and John Doe of the punk band X.
They developed a following gradually, selling out every venue on their last tour and performing "Birmingham" on David Letterman's "Late Show." The song tells of the courtship of this Charleston, S.C.-based married couple.
"It solidified what we do for a living to our parents in a certain way," Hearst said. "Now that we're full-grown adults, our parents can relax in their easy chairs knowing that we managed...
- 3/22/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
It’s been a long two years for Shovels & Rope’s Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent. Two years of hard touring—they average 200 dates a year—long drives in the van, and weeks at a time away from friends and family. Finally, that hard work is starting to pay off, with fans cropping up from Charlotte to Seattle. Paste caught the husband and wife duo for a chat on Halloween, when they were taking a day off from their grueling tour schedule, to hear about their adventures on the road and what’s next for the band. Paste: Y’all had your first...
- 11/14/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Lucia Holm
Butch Walker turned 40 last year but he can still crank out songs about reckless youth with convincing authority. Walker, whose 20 year career includes stints in a hair metal band (Southgang) and a power-pop trio (Marvelous 3) and more recently as a producer (Avril Lavigne, Weezer) and solo artist, is a balladeer for the party-hard set. His subjects are fast-lane girls and the tattooed rockers who love them, and as a lyricist he’s less interested in celebrating first love than first lust.
On his new album, “I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart,” which Walker recorded with a backing band called the Black Widows, the Georgia-born singer paints a typical vignette in the track “Canadian Ten:” “Crossing the border/wasted again/with a number on a Candian ten.”
Speakeasy recently asked Walker to explain the backstory for “Pretty Melody,” his new video, which you can watch here.
Butch Walker turned 40 last year but he can still crank out songs about reckless youth with convincing authority. Walker, whose 20 year career includes stints in a hair metal band (Southgang) and a power-pop trio (Marvelous 3) and more recently as a producer (Avril Lavigne, Weezer) and solo artist, is a balladeer for the party-hard set. His subjects are fast-lane girls and the tattooed rockers who love them, and as a lyricist he’s less interested in celebrating first love than first lust.
On his new album, “I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart,” which Walker recorded with a backing band called the Black Widows, the Georgia-born singer paints a typical vignette in the track “Canadian Ten:” “Crossing the border/wasted again/with a number on a Candian ten.”
Speakeasy recently asked Walker to explain the backstory for “Pretty Melody,” his new video, which you can watch here.
- 4/12/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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