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...Grindhouse” isn’t meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double feature B-movie extravaganza screens as two separate flicks: Rodriguez’s zombie spectacular “Planet Terror” and Tarantino’s slasher/souped-up car ride “Death Proof.”The two are even separated by a series of faux...
...when he matter-of-factly proclaims on the chorus, “And everywhere I go, I kick a freestyle / And every time I move, these women freestyle,” it takes you back—in a good way—to the rapper’s heyday in the late ’90s. The album’s successes and pitfalls aren’t all predicated on their moment in time, however. Redman shines when he reunites with his old crew, as he does on the Def Squad-featured “Walk In Gutta...
...Sing: [Hutton] gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood." In The Stork Club, "Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman and a gesture from the childhood of Shirley Temple." Cross My Heart "might possibly have been saved if Miss Hutton had been allowed to tear a few more songs to shreds in her interestingly destructive style." The Perils of Pauline: She "has a capacity for pathos which...
During Surrealism’s heyday, Jean Cocteau argued that the criterion for a true work of Surrealist art should be that the images are “lasting and fresh.” “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” would have us question this paradigm...
...explicit lyrics are still there, as is front man Iggy Pop’s distinct “singing” style (read: occasionally on pitch, sometimes screaming). But the overall sound doesn’t feel as unique as it must have in the band’s heyday in the 1970s. The album does share some elements with 1973’s seminal “Raw Power.” There’s the tendency of tracks to end long after they should, and for songs such as “She Took My Money?...