Shot under Borat-like conditions in which Stephen Dorff (wearing enough prosthetics to keep from being recognized) sold himself to Nashville residents as an unknown singer-songwriter, Ryan Ross' Wheeler is best viewed as a water-testing exercise: Should Dorff, who has seen considerable bumps in the road as an actor, embark on a second career as a country songwriter? Maybe so, judging from this peculiar film, whose dramatic elements are less plausible than the radio-ready tunes they put forward. The Cmt crowd may take to it on video, especially if Dorff manages to spin this fiction into real-world success.
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- 2/7/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"It all begins with a song..." Momentum Pictures has unveiled a full trailer for a film titled Wheeler, a faux-documentary about an aspiring country music singer from Texas who heads to Nashville to make his dream come true. Actor Stephen Dorff plays Wheeler, underneath lots of make-up and a heavy country western accent, and no one knew it was him when he was making the film. As explained by Rolling Stone: "only a handful of the cast knew that it was Dorff underneath the makeup, and fans at the Bluebird Café, where he performed, were also unaware." Nice work pulling that off. I can't tell if this film is making fun of country music, or just having fun creating a fake musician, but it actually looks like it's worth checking out. Here's the first official trailer for Ryan Ross' Wheeler, from YouTube (originally via Rolling Stone): Wheeler is an aspiring musician from Kaufman,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Chicago – The art of the confinement thriller is tricky to perfect. If it’s done right, the audience will feel trapped within the suffocating confines of a prison, while their heart rate will move at the same pace as that of the onscreen victim. Yet since the world of the film is limited to such a small space, one misstep will cause the entire experience to crumble in an instant.
Rodrigo Cortés’s “Buried” trapped Ryan Reynolds in a coffin for the entirety of its running time, and found multiple ways of opening up the world of its story without ever once cutting to an exterior shot. It played on the audience’s imagination much like the 1943 radio drama, “Sorry, Wrong Number,” while giving Reynolds the opportunity to deliver his best work to date. It wasn’t a masterpiece, per se, but it sure was an ingenious and effective thriller.
Rodrigo Cortés’s “Buried” trapped Ryan Reynolds in a coffin for the entirety of its running time, and found multiple ways of opening up the world of its story without ever once cutting to an exterior shot. It played on the audience’s imagination much like the 1943 radio drama, “Sorry, Wrong Number,” while giving Reynolds the opportunity to deliver his best work to date. It wasn’t a masterpiece, per se, but it sure was an ingenious and effective thriller.
- 7/30/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
'The Calendar' from March 29 album directly addresses the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie
Photo: MTV News
During Panic! at the Disco's Tuesday night show in New York City — the first time they'd been on a Stateside stage in nearly 18 months — they made no bones about the fact that they had put the past behind them. Free of the internal bickering that threatened to derail them, they were loose, lively and, most of all, happy.
But just because they've moved on doesn't mean Panic! aren't still dealing with the past. Their new album, the upcoming Vices & Virtues (due March 29), is directly indebted to the ground they covered on their debut, 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (some may even suggest it's that album's logical successor), full of whirring electronics, stirring strings and a definite sense of theatrics, something that was missing on their follow-up,...
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie
Photo: MTV News
During Panic! at the Disco's Tuesday night show in New York City — the first time they'd been on a Stateside stage in nearly 18 months — they made no bones about the fact that they had put the past behind them. Free of the internal bickering that threatened to derail them, they were loose, lively and, most of all, happy.
But just because they've moved on doesn't mean Panic! aren't still dealing with the past. Their new album, the upcoming Vices & Virtues (due March 29), is directly indebted to the ground they covered on their debut, 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (some may even suggest it's that album's logical successor), full of whirring electronics, stirring strings and a definite sense of theatrics, something that was missing on their follow-up,...
- 2/2/2011
- MTV Music News
Putting together an album can be a grueling experience, especially for rappers. Nailing the delicate chemistry required to match the music to the concept can be psychologically taxing, and at the end of the day, all you have to go by are your thoughts and inspirations. Many artists compare crafting an album to child birth, and while it is a joyous occasion, there is plenty of pain, discomfort and change involved any time anybody steps into a studio.
So it's always a little bit remarkable that some artists will leave entire albums behind for the sake of some other project. 50 Cent is the latest such artist to shelve a nearly-complete album, as he revealed that he thinks he might leave the experimental Black Magic behind in favor of a more traditional hip-hop album. He told Rolling Stone Brasil that he was going to put out another album before he got around to Black Magic,...
So it's always a little bit remarkable that some artists will leave entire albums behind for the sake of some other project. 50 Cent is the latest such artist to shelve a nearly-complete album, as he revealed that he thinks he might leave the experimental Black Magic behind in favor of a more traditional hip-hop album. He told Rolling Stone Brasil that he was going to put out another album before he got around to Black Magic,...
- 7/19/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe and more have provided the soundtrack for the first six months of the year, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
- 6/30/2010
- MTV Music News
Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe and more have provided the soundtrack for the first six months of the year, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
- 6/29/2010
- MTV Music News
Ryan Ross and Jon Walker emerge from Panic! at the Disco with a crackling new album, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
- 4/14/2010
- MTV Music News
Ryan Ross and Jon Walker emerge from Panic! at the Disco with a crackling new album, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
- 4/14/2010
- MTV Music News
It's Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the Ncaa basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News' James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups in a winner-take-all contest. We're leaving it to you to decide an actual champ in this field of 65. Over the next few weeks, we will present a series of polls that will allow you to vote for the match-ups presented in MTV News' Band Bracketology. You vote for the winners, we'll keep advancing the seeds and, in the end, we'll have some sort of champion. What will the winner receive? Little more than our esteem (as well as that of the fans) and some Internet bragging rights.
Sweet 16 voting closed on Tuesday night, which means that we're into...
Sweet 16 voting closed on Tuesday night, which means that we're into...
- 3/31/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
My Chemical Romance outlast 30 Seconds to Mars, in Bigger Than the Sound's bracketology!
By James Montgomery
My Chemical Romance
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
When historians look back on MTV News' inaugural Musical March Madness tournament, they will undoubtedly focus on the Sweet 16 matchup between My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars (well, either that or Linkin Park's rather erroneous omission from the entire field of 65). It was, to borrow a few catchphrases, a clash of the titans, a barn-burner, a good old-fashioned slobberknocker: Two of the biggest bands on the planet — with two of the most rabid fanbases, the MCRmy and the Echelon — squaring off for a spot in the Elite Eight. It was like Duke/ North Carolina, Ohio State/ Michigan, Israel University/ Palestine Tech, only bloodier, more venomous. It was a match for the ages.
Votes poured in by the bucket load. Both bands led for extended periods of time,...
By James Montgomery
My Chemical Romance
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
When historians look back on MTV News' inaugural Musical March Madness tournament, they will undoubtedly focus on the Sweet 16 matchup between My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars (well, either that or Linkin Park's rather erroneous omission from the entire field of 65). It was, to borrow a few catchphrases, a clash of the titans, a barn-burner, a good old-fashioned slobberknocker: Two of the biggest bands on the planet — with two of the most rabid fanbases, the MCRmy and the Echelon — squaring off for a spot in the Elite Eight. It was like Duke/ North Carolina, Ohio State/ Michigan, Israel University/ Palestine Tech, only bloodier, more venomous. It was a match for the ages.
Votes poured in by the bucket load. Both bands led for extended periods of time,...
- 3/31/2010
- MTV Music News
There won't be any new polls put out today, but the voting for the Sweet 16 round of MTV News' Musical March Madness continues today. All polls will close at 10 p.m. on Tuesday night (March 30), at which point the Elite Eight will be set. Most of the Sweet 16 match-ups are still pretty tight, so even if you're favorite band is behind in the standings, there's plenty of time to stage a comeback with some well-organized clicking. Take a look at how we got here, and then give a gander at the current slate of games.
(6) Phish vs. (15) Coheed and Cambria
A heated head-to-head. Coheed and Cambria currently leads the race, but the Phish fans in the comments section keep declaring "P.A.W.: Phish Always Win." Can they follow through on their promise?
(9) Adam Lambert vs. (13) Alice in Chains
The grunge veterans currently have a commanding lead over Lambert,...
(6) Phish vs. (15) Coheed and Cambria
A heated head-to-head. Coheed and Cambria currently leads the race, but the Phish fans in the comments section keep declaring "P.A.W.: Phish Always Win." Can they follow through on their promise?
(9) Adam Lambert vs. (13) Alice in Chains
The grunge veterans currently have a commanding lead over Lambert,...
- 3/30/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
It's Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the Ncaa basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News' James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups in a winner-take-all contest. We're leaving it to you to decide an actual champ in this field of 65. Over the next few weeks, we will present a series of polls that will allow you to vote for the match-ups presented in MTV News' Band Bracketology. You vote for the winners, we'll keep advancing the seeds and, in the end, we'll have some sort of champion. What will the winner receive? Little more than our esteem (as well as that of the fans) and some Internet bragging rights.
The East bracket of the Sweet 16 is already in play, and...
The East bracket of the Sweet 16 is already in play, and...
- 3/29/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
'If you like it, then you do,' he says of new group's debut album.
By James Montgomery
The Young Veins' Jon Walker and Ryan Ross
Photo: MTV News
When MTV News last spoke to Ryan Ross, he was in the process of finding a label to release Take a Vacation, the debut disc from his new band the Young Veins.
He was confident that the hunt for a label would be resolved in a matter of weeks and that, finally, the Veins would have something (a single, a video, a tour) to show for all their hard work. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out that way.
When MTV News spoke to Ross and the Veins at South by Southwest, Vacation still hadn't been released, and their tour was only a few dates old. Yet, to a man — and there are five of them in the band these days — their confidence hadn't waned,...
By James Montgomery
The Young Veins' Jon Walker and Ryan Ross
Photo: MTV News
When MTV News last spoke to Ryan Ross, he was in the process of finding a label to release Take a Vacation, the debut disc from his new band the Young Veins.
He was confident that the hunt for a label would be resolved in a matter of weeks and that, finally, the Veins would have something (a single, a video, a tour) to show for all their hard work. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out that way.
When MTV News spoke to Ross and the Veins at South by Southwest, Vacation still hadn't been released, and their tour was only a few dates old. Yet, to a man — and there are five of them in the band these days — their confidence hadn't waned,...
- 3/25/2010
- MTV Music News
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