A disaster horror comedy that’s equal parts Can’t Hardly Wait and Idle Hands, Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K is often hilariously sincere in its depiction of social and technological anxieties from the tail end of 1999. Mooney remembers all too well a world where promises of connectivity had not quite caught up with the technology. For those that were not ’90s kids, your mileage may vary and the premise of Y2K might seem confounding: why would a computer system rolling back the clock to 1900 be an issue?
Of course, the anxiety was very real––as documented in Brian Becker and Marley McDonald’s recent HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K and in stickers from Best Buy telling consumers to shut their computer off before the clock strikes midnight. Mooney’s version bursts with the absurd creativity of a teenager sketching out a wild comic book scenario with...
Of course, the anxiety was very real––as documented in Brian Becker and Marley McDonald’s recent HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K and in stickers from Best Buy telling consumers to shut their computer off before the clock strikes midnight. Mooney’s version bursts with the absurd creativity of a teenager sketching out a wild comic book scenario with...
- 3/11/2024
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
From the widespread fear that the repeal of Net Neutrality would eventually force us to pay a dollar for every Google search to the misguided belief that Matt Patricia would turn the Detroit Lions into an equally fearsome version of Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots dynasty, recent human history is filled with incorrect predictions and wild overreactions. But few false alarms rang louder than the Y2K frenzy, in which much of the world spent 1999 panicking that the new millennium would cause the technology that powered our society to instantly stop working once years started with 20 instead of 19. The fear was grounded in some semblance of reality, but any potential catastrophe was averted when the world’s top computer programmers worked together to resolve the problem before we closed the book on the 20th century.
But if the only lasting legacy of Y2K is the inspiration it provided...
But if the only lasting legacy of Y2K is the inspiration it provided...
- 3/10/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Nobody would have blamed Peter Morgan if the sixth season of Netflix’s The Crown had addressed the death of Diana and its impact on the royal family in only a roundabout way.
Ok, some people absolutely would have. But I personally wouldn’t have blamed Peter Morgan if he’d decided that, with 2006’s The Queen, he’d already made his two-hour episode of The Crown dealing with the impact of Diana’s death on Queen Elizabeth and the precarious position of the monarchy. Surely, Morgan had nothing to gain from rehashing the same beats of royal mourning, along with musing on the causes behind Elizabeth’s slow initial response and the circumstances behind her eventually well-received address to the grieving nation.
At the very least, I hoped that Morgan would find an unexpected angle: the perspective of a palace guard spending the days after Diana’s death watching over the impromptu public memorials,...
Ok, some people absolutely would have. But I personally wouldn’t have blamed Peter Morgan if he’d decided that, with 2006’s The Queen, he’d already made his two-hour episode of The Crown dealing with the impact of Diana’s death on Queen Elizabeth and the precarious position of the monarchy. Surely, Morgan had nothing to gain from rehashing the same beats of royal mourning, along with musing on the causes behind Elizabeth’s slow initial response and the circumstances behind her eventually well-received address to the grieving nation.
At the very least, I hoped that Morgan would find an unexpected angle: the perspective of a palace guard spending the days after Diana’s death watching over the impromptu public memorials,...
- 11/16/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Ryan Donowho (The O.C.) is set to topline Art of a Hit (fka Excelsis), an indie psychological horror film directed by Gaelan Draper that will begin shooting in France this month under a SAG Interim Agreement. Rounding out the cast are Rob Raco (Riverdale), Charlie Saxton (Hung), Tim Jo (This Is Us), Allie MacDonald (Under the Silver Lake), James Earl (White Men Can’t Jump), and David Valdes (Speechless). Draper and Saxton co-wrote and are co-producing under their Dewey & Bug banner.
Set in 2003, the movie follows a bygone rock band as they journey to a 1000-year-old French chateau to record with a reclusive super-producer in hopes of rebooting their career. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, they realize they are up against more than just the pressure to succeed. Indie rock pioneer Adam Lasus is music directing the ’90s alternative-heavy soundtrack alongside music supervisor Linda Cohen (Licorice Pizza...
Set in 2003, the movie follows a bygone rock band as they journey to a 1000-year-old French chateau to record with a reclusive super-producer in hopes of rebooting their career. But as tensions rise and tempers flare, they realize they are up against more than just the pressure to succeed. Indie rock pioneer Adam Lasus is music directing the ’90s alternative-heavy soundtrack alongside music supervisor Linda Cohen (Licorice Pizza...
- 9/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Tl;Dr:
Paul McCartney rerecorded The Beatles’ “Let It Be” as a star-studded charity single in 1987. He collaborated with a famous producer on the cover. The producer said the former Beatle was never satisfied with his work on the song.
The Beatles‘ “Let It Be” is one of Paul McCartney’s most famous songs. He rerecorded it with the help of many major artists to help the victims of a ferry disaster. Subsequently, the cover inspired a parody by a famous band.
Kate Bush and Boy George helped Paul McCartney rerecord The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’
According to Yahoo! News, the Herald of Free Enterprise was a ferry that was supposed to travel from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Dover, England, on March 6, 1987. No one closed the ferry’s bow doors, which caused water to flood the ship. Within 90 seconds, the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized.
Sadly, 193 people died on the Herald of Free Enterprise.
Paul McCartney rerecorded The Beatles’ “Let It Be” as a star-studded charity single in 1987. He collaborated with a famous producer on the cover. The producer said the former Beatle was never satisfied with his work on the song.
The Beatles‘ “Let It Be” is one of Paul McCartney’s most famous songs. He rerecorded it with the help of many major artists to help the victims of a ferry disaster. Subsequently, the cover inspired a parody by a famous band.
Kate Bush and Boy George helped Paul McCartney rerecord The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’
According to Yahoo! News, the Herald of Free Enterprise was a ferry that was supposed to travel from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Dover, England, on March 6, 1987. No one closed the ferry’s bow doors, which caused water to flood the ship. Within 90 seconds, the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized.
Sadly, 193 people died on the Herald of Free Enterprise.
- 7/5/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Tl;Dr:
Susan Atkins said the Manson Family got immersed The Beatles’ “Piggies” and lots of drugs. The Manson Family interpreted “Piggies” as an attack on a certain kind of person. “Piggies” is forever associate with the murder of Sharon Tate. Susan Atkins and Charles Manson | New York Daily News / Contributor
Susan Atkins, a member of the Manson Family, said The Beatles‘ “Piggies” captured the cult’s mindset. Subsequently, the track became associated with an episode from the Manson murders. Despite its horrible history, “Piggies” inspired covers by some notable singers.
Susan Atkins said the Manson Family felt The Beatles’ ‘Piggies’ was about apathy
In her 2005 book Child of Satan, Child of God, Atkins said the Manson Family became fixated on The White Album. “The Beatles’ White Album — which, it must be understood, we were being immersed in, along with consuming unimaginable quantities of drugs —had a song that summed up much of our thinking,...
Susan Atkins said the Manson Family got immersed The Beatles’ “Piggies” and lots of drugs. The Manson Family interpreted “Piggies” as an attack on a certain kind of person. “Piggies” is forever associate with the murder of Sharon Tate. Susan Atkins and Charles Manson | New York Daily News / Contributor
Susan Atkins, a member of the Manson Family, said The Beatles‘ “Piggies” captured the cult’s mindset. Subsequently, the track became associated with an episode from the Manson murders. Despite its horrible history, “Piggies” inspired covers by some notable singers.
Susan Atkins said the Manson Family felt The Beatles’ ‘Piggies’ was about apathy
In her 2005 book Child of Satan, Child of God, Atkins said the Manson Family became fixated on The White Album. “The Beatles’ White Album — which, it must be understood, we were being immersed in, along with consuming unimaginable quantities of drugs —had a song that summed up much of our thinking,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
With a streak of humility utterly foreign to most music documentaries, Dunstan Bruce recounts the band’s successes – and failures – as pop stars and political activists
As a Dr Martens-wearing teenager in the 90s, I loathed the anarchist indie band Chumbawamba and their chart-topping anthem Tubthumping. Well, I take it all back after watching this funny and surprisingly sweet documentary co-directed by frontman Dunstan Bruce and Sophie Robinson. It begins with Bruce, now in his late 50s, overwhelmed by feelings of powerlessness as he thinks about the future of the planet, wondering what he can do. As a film-maker he indulges in a bit of wallowing here: taking the negative voice in his head and bringing it to life, played by an actor wearing a papier-mache head, who sarkily takes the piss out of him.
But from here the film settles nicely into an enjoyable blast of pop history. Chumbawamba...
As a Dr Martens-wearing teenager in the 90s, I loathed the anarchist indie band Chumbawamba and their chart-topping anthem Tubthumping. Well, I take it all back after watching this funny and surprisingly sweet documentary co-directed by frontman Dunstan Bruce and Sophie Robinson. It begins with Bruce, now in his late 50s, overwhelmed by feelings of powerlessness as he thinks about the future of the planet, wondering what he can do. As a film-maker he indulges in a bit of wallowing here: taking the negative voice in his head and bringing it to life, played by an actor wearing a papier-mache head, who sarkily takes the piss out of him.
But from here the film settles nicely into an enjoyable blast of pop history. Chumbawamba...
- 2/1/2023
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Universal released the trailer for its documentary adaptation of Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F—: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living a Good Life” on Tuesday.
“You’re going to die one day,” Manson says at the beginning of the trailer, which you can watch at the top of this post. “I just wanted to remind you.”
The clip then cuts to a paramedic using a defibrillator on Manson’s paralyzed dead body as he mentions his book about self-esteem and positivity.
“‘You deserve to be special and unique and extraordinary,’” Manson continues. “Actually, that’s bulls—.”
Manson’s 200-page self-help book came out in 2016. It tackles life perspective from a reductionist standpoint, reminding readers not to take themselves so seriously because there is only so much time in the world and still so much life to live without worrying about every single little thing.
“You’re going to die one day,” Manson says at the beginning of the trailer, which you can watch at the top of this post. “I just wanted to remind you.”
The clip then cuts to a paramedic using a defibrillator on Manson’s paralyzed dead body as he mentions his book about self-esteem and positivity.
“‘You deserve to be special and unique and extraordinary,’” Manson continues. “Actually, that’s bulls—.”
Manson’s 200-page self-help book came out in 2016. It tackles life perspective from a reductionist standpoint, reminding readers not to take themselves so seriously because there is only so much time in the world and still so much life to live without worrying about every single little thing.
- 12/6/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Do we ever really come to understand the truths of our parents? Calum (Paul Mescal), the young father of Charlotte Wells’ debut feature Aftersun, is as known as he is unknown. The closer we try to get, the further he and his actions seem to recede. The more we hone in on the banal details of who he is, the more we realize we do not know about why he is the way that he is. Like anyone else, Calum is an iceberg, half-submerged. Everything above water implies some unseen...
- 10/24/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last time they were starstruck to the last song they listened to. This week, Lily Sheen takes our call.
Lily Sheen was uniquely qualified for her role in "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent." The actress plays Addy, the fictional daughter of Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized, meta version of himself. Sheen's real parents are actors Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen, but she tells Popsugar they're nothing like the movie's fake Nic Cage.
"I feel very lucky to be able to say I didn't have this exact upbringing," she says. "I think what was really interesting for me as an actor was to be able to create this character who was kind of this bizarro world version of myself. If my life had...
Lily Sheen was uniquely qualified for her role in "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent." The actress plays Addy, the fictional daughter of Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized, meta version of himself. Sheen's real parents are actors Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen, but she tells Popsugar they're nothing like the movie's fake Nic Cage.
"I feel very lucky to be able to say I didn't have this exact upbringing," she says. "I think what was really interesting for me as an actor was to be able to create this character who was kind of this bizarro world version of myself. If my life had...
- 4/20/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
You’d think the songs that we call one-hit wonders — I’ve always applied the term interchangeably to bands and songs — would, by their nature, have the quality of novelty singles. A lot of them do, like “Come On Eileen” or “I’m Too Sexy” or “Spirit in the Sky” or “867-5309 (Jenny)” or “96 Tears.” But occasionally there’s a one-hit wonder that’s so transcendent it qualifies as one of the greatest pop songs you’ve ever heard — which makes it all the more mysterious that the band in question never came within a million miles of replicating its sublimity or success. I’m thinking of songs like “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba, “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone, or the song that may be the greatest one-hit wonder of them all: “Take On Me” by the Norwegian synth-pop trio A-ha.
As the new documentary “A-ha: The Movie” makes clear,...
As the new documentary “A-ha: The Movie” makes clear,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Jack White surprised fans at Beck’s show at the Basement East in Nashville last night. Pretending to be Beck, White said he would play some of his favorite songs.
“Hello ladies and gentlemen, I’m Beck,” White proclaimed. “I’m gonna play you one of my favorite songs from the 1990s that I wrote.”
Instead, White launched into Chumbawamba’s 1997 smash “Tubthumping” before slipping into the Proclaimers’ 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).”
It wasn’t long before the headliner showed up onstage. “What are you doing, Jack?” Beck asked.
“Hello ladies and gentlemen, I’m Beck,” White proclaimed. “I’m gonna play you one of my favorite songs from the 1990s that I wrote.”
Instead, White launched into Chumbawamba’s 1997 smash “Tubthumping” before slipping into the Proclaimers’ 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).”
It wasn’t long before the headliner showed up onstage. “What are you doing, Jack?” Beck asked.
- 3/22/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s one thing to grapple with having been a one-hit wonder, and another when that singular smash may have given the world a wrong impression of what you were all about … or just represented a moment in which selling out was quickly succeeded by flaming out. These are some of the matters troubling former Chumbawamba frontman Dunstan Bruce’s mind in “I Get Knocked Down,” wherein the singer takes part as narrator, co-director, primary subject and putative conscience of a swept-aside alt-rock generation. His intention with the film is to beat himself up a little and find some redemption, proceeding from the assumption that having been responsible for 1997’s globally massive “Tubthumping” is not its own eternal reward.
“I Get Knocked Down” — named for a line in the chorus of “Tubthumping,” which will be instantly familiar to just about anyone sentient in the late ’90s — quickly emerges out of...
“I Get Knocked Down” — named for a line in the chorus of “Tubthumping,” which will be instantly familiar to just about anyone sentient in the late ’90s — quickly emerges out of...
- 3/14/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
At this moment, somewhere on planet Earth, a radio is thumping with the unmistakable opening of Chumbawamba’s utterly absurd 1997 smash, “Tubthumping.” Love it or hate it, that opening segue from “We’ll be singing / While we’re winning” to “I Get Knocked Down / But I Get Up Again / You Are Never Gonna Keep Me Down” is an undeniably stirring bit of adrenaline. The voice shouting “I Get Knocked Down” belongs to Dunstan Bruce, lead and co-director of the documentary appropriately titled I Get Knocked Down, an endearing, intelligent exploration of the perils of fleeting fame.
Co-directed by BAFTA and Emmy winner Sophie Robinson, I Get Knocked Down takes a novel approach to its topic. Older viewers (like yours truly) may recall the cover “star” of Chumbawamba’s 1997 album Tubthumper: a baby with a grotesquely large mouth. (Think that face from David Lynch’s Inland Empire but plastered onto a baby’s head.
Co-directed by BAFTA and Emmy winner Sophie Robinson, I Get Knocked Down takes a novel approach to its topic. Older viewers (like yours truly) may recall the cover “star” of Chumbawamba’s 1997 album Tubthumper: a baby with a grotesquely large mouth. (Think that face from David Lynch’s Inland Empire but plastered onto a baby’s head.
- 3/12/2022
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Hulu’s limited series “Pam & Tommy” has been praised not just for its performances, but for its soundtrack. The music has been such a solid mix of jams from both the 1990s and earlier that Hulu has been releasing weekly Spotify playlists for listeners to keep the music flowing. The finale airs Wednesday, and contains two poignant needle drops that drive home the themes the series has been exploring all season long.
As music supervisor, Amanda Thomas has crafted the needle drops for not just “Pam & Tommy,” but several of Ryan Murphy’s series as well as the popular FX series “The Americans.” Though needle drop moments have felt more pronounced over the last year, particularly as the nostalgic bent of many series require going through the archives of popular music, Thomas said during a recent Zoom interview that much depends on the show. “I do feel shows...
As music supervisor, Amanda Thomas has crafted the needle drops for not just “Pam & Tommy,” but several of Ryan Murphy’s series as well as the popular FX series “The Americans.” Though needle drop moments have felt more pronounced over the last year, particularly as the nostalgic bent of many series require going through the archives of popular music, Thomas said during a recent Zoom interview that much depends on the show. “I do feel shows...
- 3/9/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Kelsey Grammer, Phyllis Logan Headline Thriller ‘No Way Up’
Kelsey Grammer (X-Men: The Last Stand) and Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) have been set to lead the survival thriller No Way Up. Directed by Claudio Fäh (Wilder), the pic shows passengers fighting for air supply after their plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. BAFTA-winner Annalise Davis and Molly Conners (Birdman) are producing with Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall of Altitude Film Entertainment. The company will handle the film’s worldwide sales and will introduce to buyers at the American Film Market. A spring 2022 shoot will take off in Malta.
Rio Ferdinand Exec’ing Docuseries Following Emerging Soccer Stars
Soccer star Rio Ferdinand is executive producing documentary South Of The River, a three-parter showcasing the next generation of sporting talents. The project comes from Gabriel Clarke (Le Mans) of Noah Media Group, Jay Gill (Out Of Their Skin) is directing.
Kelsey Grammer (X-Men: The Last Stand) and Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) have been set to lead the survival thriller No Way Up. Directed by Claudio Fäh (Wilder), the pic shows passengers fighting for air supply after their plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. BAFTA-winner Annalise Davis and Molly Conners (Birdman) are producing with Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall of Altitude Film Entertainment. The company will handle the film’s worldwide sales and will introduce to buyers at the American Film Market. A spring 2022 shoot will take off in Malta.
Rio Ferdinand Exec’ing Docuseries Following Emerging Soccer Stars
Soccer star Rio Ferdinand is executive producing documentary South Of The River, a three-parter showcasing the next generation of sporting talents. The project comes from Gabriel Clarke (Le Mans) of Noah Media Group, Jay Gill (Out Of Their Skin) is directing.
- 10/27/2021
- by Anuj Radia
- Deadline Film + TV
When you think of the most enduring songs of the 20th century, which ones come to mind? How about Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue”? Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies”? The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset”? Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”?
Acid-folk guru Peter Stampfel concurs with all those choices, and as his new album demonstrates, he would also add the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe.”
For his latest project, Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century in 100 Songs, Stampfel decided to pay tribute to the past century by covering one song from each year.
Acid-folk guru Peter Stampfel concurs with all those choices, and as his new album demonstrates, he would also add the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe.”
For his latest project, Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century in 100 Songs, Stampfel decided to pay tribute to the past century by covering one song from each year.
- 2/2/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
It’s not often you see the Dunder Mifflin crew experience joy, despite Michael Scott’s best attempts. But the Season 3 episode, “Beach Games,” showed off one of the few moments of genuine fun that Michael’s self-described “family” experienced when they sang the theme song to “The Flintstones” during their bus ride.
And now we know it wasn’t the only song they sang on that ride. In a new deleted released by Peacock, the new streaming home of “The Office,” the gang also did pretty good renditions of The Proclaimers’ hit song, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” (complete with some not-bad Irish accents), as well as Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” and Chumbawamba’s “I Get Knocked Down.”
Check out the happy coworkers below.
The Flintstones theme song wasn’t the only song #TheOffice cast sang on the bus.
And now we know it wasn’t the only song they sang on that ride. In a new deleted released by Peacock, the new streaming home of “The Office,” the gang also did pretty good renditions of The Proclaimers’ hit song, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” (complete with some not-bad Irish accents), as well as Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” and Chumbawamba’s “I Get Knocked Down.”
Check out the happy coworkers below.
The Flintstones theme song wasn’t the only song #TheOffice cast sang on the bus.
- 1/2/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Alicia Bognanno channeled 1997 Chumbawamba classic “Tubthumping” when it came to writing her new single, “Where to Start” — the first song off of Bully’s upcoming third album, Sugaregg (out August 21 via Subpop).
“I was listening to ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba and picking apart the melodic structure and sort of trying to mimic that,” Bognanno tells Rolling Stone. “I’m not even joking; it still makes me laugh to think about. But let’s be real, that is undeniably a solid song. ‘Where to Start’ addresses the frustration that comes along with...
“I was listening to ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba and picking apart the melodic structure and sort of trying to mimic that,” Bognanno tells Rolling Stone. “I’m not even joking; it still makes me laugh to think about. But let’s be real, that is undeniably a solid song. ‘Where to Start’ addresses the frustration that comes along with...
- 6/11/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
I want to play a game. The rules of the game are simple. Attached to each of your limbs are bone saws ready to slice through your arms and legs. Above you is a trailer for the new movie Spiral: From The Book Of Saw. You have to watch the entire trailer while someone plays "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba on kazoo six inches from your ear. If you can make it through the entire one minute and…...
- 2/5/2020
- by Corrye Van Caeseele-Cook
- JoBlo.com
The first time Stella Donnelly sang about her vibrator, her parents were in the crowd. “It was very classic,” she says, laughing. “A really funny moment of like, ‘Well, here I am!’” After years of singing in a corporate cover band, the 26-year-old Welsh-Australian singer has fully embraced her brazen, no-fucks-given songwriting attitude. “I’d gone for so long singing other people’s songs and pretending to be happy when I’m not,” Donnelly says. “I have no other way of being able to write now than to be real.
- 4/19/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
“Who Let The Dogs Out,” the turn-of-the-millennium-era Grammy-winning Baha Men hit, has eclipsed kitsch to become a stadium anthem. And thanks to its peculiar origin story — the hook dates back to 1959 and the song’s ownership is a copyright maze — it’s now the subject of a documentary film, which held its world premiere at SXSW over the weekend.
New Yorker Ben Sisto serves as the documentary’s expert narrator. His decade-long obsession with the smash, which began when he noticed a curious, incomplete citation on the tune’s Wikipedia page, inspired a touring one-man show. Director Brent Hodge brings the story to life, tracing the lineage of the jam backwards, chronologically, with cleverly edited interviews with the multiple musicians, industry insiders and chant purveyors of the ubiquitous phrase. In the process, the film takes viewers from to the Bahamas, Trinidad, England, Florida, New York, Seattle, Michigan and finally to...
New Yorker Ben Sisto serves as the documentary’s expert narrator. His decade-long obsession with the smash, which began when he noticed a curious, incomplete citation on the tune’s Wikipedia page, inspired a touring one-man show. Director Brent Hodge brings the story to life, tracing the lineage of the jam backwards, chronologically, with cleverly edited interviews with the multiple musicians, industry insiders and chant purveyors of the ubiquitous phrase. In the process, the film takes viewers from to the Bahamas, Trinidad, England, Florida, New York, Seattle, Michigan and finally to...
- 3/10/2019
- by Charlie Amter
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Colbert bid farewell to several 2016 presidential tributes felled by the Iowa caucuses on the latest installment of The Late Show's riotous Hunger Games send-up, "Hungry for Power Games."
First up, Republican candidate Rand Paul, whose early campaign gimmicks included a series of viral videos in which he burned and shredded the United States tax code. Taking a page from Paul's "book of heavy-handed metaphors," Colbert dropped a portrait of the Kentucky senator in a toaster and cackled, "Goodbye Rand, you're toast!" But when the picture popped back up unscathed,...
First up, Republican candidate Rand Paul, whose early campaign gimmicks included a series of viral videos in which he burned and shredded the United States tax code. Taking a page from Paul's "book of heavy-handed metaphors," Colbert dropped a portrait of the Kentucky senator in a toaster and cackled, "Goodbye Rand, you're toast!" But when the picture popped back up unscathed,...
- 2/4/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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