Nowadays it’s hard for any superhero show to stand out on television. Through three seasons on Netflix, however, The Umbrella Academy has discovered that it sure does help to have a banging soundtrack.
Fittingly for a TV series based on a comic written by a musician (My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way), The Umbrella Academy knows its way around a tune. Season 1 was highlighted by an instant classic group dance session to Tiffany. Then the 1963-set season 2 upped the ante with a whole host of period-appropriate songs. For season 3, Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman wanted to make sure music played just as big a role.
“I write a lot of songs already into the script. And I encourage my writers to do the same thing,” Blackman tells Den of Geek. “Sometimes they make sense in the scene. Sometimes they’re a little weirdly subversive. And sometimes it’s just...
Fittingly for a TV series based on a comic written by a musician (My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way), The Umbrella Academy knows its way around a tune. Season 1 was highlighted by an instant classic group dance session to Tiffany. Then the 1963-set season 2 upped the ante with a whole host of period-appropriate songs. For season 3, Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman wanted to make sure music played just as big a role.
“I write a lot of songs already into the script. And I encourage my writers to do the same thing,” Blackman tells Den of Geek. “Sometimes they make sense in the scene. Sometimes they’re a little weirdly subversive. And sometimes it’s just...
- 6/22/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Updated, with full trailer: The trailer that left exhibitors’ jaws dropping at CinemaCon is finally ready to watch: Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling.
Take a look at the Don’t Worry Darling trailer starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh here:
Firing off with Brenton Wood’s “Oogum Boogum,” it looks like hubby and wife Jack (Styles) and Alice (Pugh) are in a good place in their marriage in 1950s suburbia: “You and me,” they say to each other. Chris Pine is leading the enigmatic Victory Project, which his upper-class clientele agree with “is changing the world.” But the thing the guys ask the girls is to stay put, at home. Alice questions Victory Project boss Pine at dinner, and his retort is, “I’m curious where she’s going with this.”
We later see there’s a woman from the neighborhood about to jump off the roof of her house,...
Take a look at the Don’t Worry Darling trailer starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh here:
Firing off with Brenton Wood’s “Oogum Boogum,” it looks like hubby and wife Jack (Styles) and Alice (Pugh) are in a good place in their marriage in 1950s suburbia: “You and me,” they say to each other. Chris Pine is leading the enigmatic Victory Project, which his upper-class clientele agree with “is changing the world.” But the thing the guys ask the girls is to stay put, at home. Alice questions Victory Project boss Pine at dinner, and his retort is, “I’m curious where she’s going with this.”
We later see there’s a woman from the neighborhood about to jump off the roof of her house,...
- 5/2/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The James Hunter Six’s “Who’s Fooling Who” feels beamed in from a jukebox circa 1967, when the world was overflowing with simple, devastatingly effective, sub-three-minute soul singles mapping the treacherous terrain of romance: The Sapphires’ “Who Do You Love” and Evie Sands’ “I Can’t Let Go,” Barbara Lewis’ “Hello Stranger” and Brenton Wood’s “Trouble.”
‘Who’s Fooling Who” is suitably spare, mostly a gentle lick on acoustic guitar, maybe a cousin of a bolero or a bossa nova, and a soft tumble of percussion. Hunter’s voice is wonderfully craggy,...
‘Who’s Fooling Who” is suitably spare, mostly a gentle lick on acoustic guitar, maybe a cousin of a bolero or a bossa nova, and a soft tumble of percussion. Hunter’s voice is wonderfully craggy,...
- 4/9/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
July 22: Actor Orson Bean ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 84. Actress Louise Fletcher is 78. Singer Chuck Jackson is 75. Actor Terence Stamp is 74. Game show host Alex Trebek is 72. Singer George Clinton is 71. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 69. Actor Danny Glover is 66. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 66. Singer Don Henley is 65. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 65. Composer Alan Menken ("Little Mermaid," "Little Shop of Horrors") is 63. Musician Al Di Meola is 58. Actor Willem Dafoe is 57. Singer Keith Sweat is 51. Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 49. Actor-comedian David Spade is 48. Actor John Leguizamo is 48. Bassist Pat Badger of Extreme is 45. Actor Rhys Ifans is 45. Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 39. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 39. Actress Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity") is 38. Actress Selena Gomez is 20.
July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...
July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...
- 7/19/2012
- by www.huffingtonpost.com
- Huffington Post
Well, Kenny fucking Powers will be pitching his last innings in "Eastbound & Down" as the show winds up its third and final season with a only a few more episodes to go. But you'll still have the opportunity to keep that good time feeling going all summer long.
Fat Possum Records is set to drop a nice two-disc soundtrack to the series, featuring a handful of songs played through the show's twenty-one episodes. No surprise, this one is heavy on the rock 'n roll with tracks from folks like The Black Keys, The Stooges, MC5, The Animals, Ram Jam and more. There is a bit of country lovin' with Kenny Rogers and Lee Hazelwood, some hip hop with Too Short and 'Lil Wyte and even an obscure R&B tune by Brenton Wood.
Finer retails will carry the collection on April 24th. Full tracklist below. [Prefix]
"Eastbound & Down" Soundtrack Tracklist
Disc...
Fat Possum Records is set to drop a nice two-disc soundtrack to the series, featuring a handful of songs played through the show's twenty-one episodes. No surprise, this one is heavy on the rock 'n roll with tracks from folks like The Black Keys, The Stooges, MC5, The Animals, Ram Jam and more. There is a bit of country lovin' with Kenny Rogers and Lee Hazelwood, some hip hop with Too Short and 'Lil Wyte and even an obscure R&B tune by Brenton Wood.
Finer retails will carry the collection on April 24th. Full tracklist below. [Prefix]
"Eastbound & Down" Soundtrack Tracklist
Disc...
- 3/27/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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