Tuesday, 6 June 2017
Nine Inch Nails to release new EP soon
Nine Inch Nails have announced that they will release a new EP shortly.
The Trent Reznor-led band released their ‘Not The Actual Events’ EP last December, now confirming that they will follow it with a second short-player later this summer, which will be the second part of a trilogy.
Nine Inch Nails released their most recent album ‘Hesitation Marks’ in 2013.
Trent Reznor recently revealed he feels regret for his very public criticism of one of Chris Cornell‘s solo albums. Released in 2009, ‘Scream’ was a collaboration between Cornell and pioneering hip-hop producer Timbaland. Shortly after the album dropped, the Nine Inch Nails frontman tweeted: “You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell’s record? Jesus.”
Recalling how he felt about the album at the time, Reznor told Rolling Stone after Cornell’s death: “Seeing Chris do that record felt like a blow to me. I thought, ‘He’s above that, man. He’s one of the 10 best vocalists of our time.'” However, he also admitted he “immediately regretted” posting the tweet, adding that he later wrote Cornell a letter apologizing for it.
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Wonder Woman smashes box office records: a review of the reviews
“Thrilling, earnest, and buoyed by Gal Gadot's charismatic performance, Wonder Woman succeeds in spectacular fashion.” Not my words, the words of all the critics. And Rotten Tomatoes’ Critics Consensus quote on the latest DC Universe film only tells half of the story. According to the vast majority of reviews that have racked up the film a massive 93 per cent on the film review site – the highest rated DC title besides The Dark Knight and equal to the original Superman - Wonder Woman is the movie to save the floundering Justice League franchise, rejuvenate the superheroine genre, strike a blow for cinematic feminism and turn Gadot into the biggest breakout star of the summer. It’s already managed the highest-grossing opening weekend for a female-directed film ever, and here’s what the critics have to say.
“A glorious badass” – The Observer
“I know, superhero movies are for everyone, yadda yadda,” writes The Observer’s Wendy Ide. “But as a woman, it’s impossible not to feel a sense of ownership over the first female-led superhero flick since the lamentable Catwoman in 2004. And it’s impossible not to feel a warm swell of relief that she is such a glorious badass, one who wears her femininity with the same pride and poise that she wears her armour-plated bra.” Praising Gadot’s empathetic performance, Ide concludes, “we rediscover the tropes of genre through her questioning eyes. And for once, the comic book movie almost seems fresh again”.
“Supremely capable yet utterly innocent” – The Atlantic
As Gadot’s Diana Prince is drawn away from her female-only island into the thick of WWI, the Atlantic’s Christopher Orr finds her performance “a delight… supremely capable yet utterly innocent, a big fish who has left her little pond and now finds herself out of water altogether.” Orr, too credits director Patty Jenkins for concentrating on character and emotion rather than CGI: “here’s hoping that DC and Warner Bros. have registered the value of such straightforward pleasures in time for Snyder’s upcoming Justice League. If even he can learn such a lesson, perhaps there’s hope for the human race after all.”
“A tremendous win” – The Verge
Tasha Robinson of The Verge proclaimed the movie “a tremendous win” for the DC Universe, noting that “Wonder Woman has a lightness and wryness that none of its DC predecessors could claim, but it’s still about philosophical crisis and a hero trying to find an identity. It’s still exploring the DCEU’s favorite themes: whether mankind truly deserves heroes, and whether it’s possible for one person to justly wield immense power. Director Patty Jenkins (Monster) and screenwriter Allan Heinberg explore those themes with a humanity that the franchise’s previous films were lacking. They take their protagonist’s natural superiority for granted, making it a joy instead of a heavy burden. In their hands, Wonder Woman questions her place in the world, but not her inherent identity. And it makes all the difference to the story.” Um, there is still fighting in it, right?
“A melee of awesome action sequences” – NME
Phew. NME’s Dan Brightmore comes out with a reassuringly gung-ho summary of the film’s action scenes, made all the more authentic by Gadot’s time in the Israeli army. “In one of the film’s standout scenes,” he writes, “Diana and her crew (including Trainspotting’s Spud, Ewen Bremner, as a war-beaten sniper) are pinned back by enemy fire in a trench on the Western Front. A bullet-dodging, balletic display of ass-kicking ensues. It’s a real jaw-dropper and Gadot absolutely nails it. The inevitable face-off with Ares reveals a neat twist – prepare for a finale fused with emotional heft. If you’ve been suffering from superhero fatigue, Wonder Woman will restore your faith in the genre with DC’s best effort since The Dark Knight.” BIFF! BASH! KA-POW!
“Wonder of wonders!” – New York Observer
While having plenty of reservations – a “baggy” subplot, “tepid” villains and “dreary” CGI scenes – the New York Observer’s Thelma Adams was inspired by the feminist implications of Wonder Woman. “As a chick critic,” she wrote, “I feel honor-bound to support this female-driven-and-directed blockbuster. C’mon: I’ve begged for it. I’m still uncertain that women have to make movies in the male mode in order to prove their worth as filmmakers but a lot of people are convinced that equality demands turning the female gaze on established formulas. I’d prefer to break the mold but in the meantime, Wonder Woman embraces issues of female power and the need to turn from hate to love, from war to peace in a mainstream delivery system. And, shouldering the plot, the female lead is not solely a mother, sister, girlfriend or hooker, however gold her heart: wonder of wonders!”
“Superbabe-in-the-woods” – The Vulture
The Vulture’s reviewer David Edelstein has come under fire for the rather dodgy tone of his review, picking out Gadot for praise despite the film’s “limpness in storytelling”. “The only grace note in the generally clunky Wonder Woman is its star, the five-foot-10-inch Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot, who is somehow the perfect blend of superbabe-in-the-woods innocence and mouthiness,” he wrote. “She’s a treat here with her raspy accented voice and driving delivery. (Israeli women are a breed unto themselves, which I say with both admiration and trepidation.)”
“Fans might be disappointed that there’s no trace of the comic’s well-documented S&M kinkiness,” he continued. “With a female director, Patty Jenkins, at the helm, Diana isn’t even photographed to elicit slobbers… I didn’t miss Lynda Carter’s buxom, apple-cheeked pinup, though. It was worth waiting for Gadot.” Did Twitter like that? It did not.
“There were no nip slips, like not even close to one” – Dorkly
Readers of Dorkly were shocked and appalled to read an apology for their Wonder Woman review, which pertained to include lines such as “Wonder Woman lives on this island of lesbians or something (none of the girls do anything super hot with each other though so what’s the point??)”, “she’s a superhero so shouldn’t her jugs be way bigger?” and “the message is – I wish a hot foreign lady would choke me with that lasso of truth, and I would yell out ‘THIS IS SO HOT AND I HAVE A BONER’”. The reviewer reportedly gave the film two out of ten because it only got him to “half-chub”.
Of course it turned out that there was no original review and the ‘apology’ was a satire on Edelstein’s review (above). Had us going for a second though…
Read more about Wonder Woman on our dedicated blog.
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Monday, 5 June 2017
Guns N’ Roses ‘planning’ new album: ‘It’s too good not to happen’
Guns N’ Roses are planning a new album, according to guitarist Richard Fortus.
Now Fortus, who has been a member of the band since 2002, has spoken about plans for a new album on the StageLeft podcast. He said that the idea of recording a new LP was “too good not to happen”.
Fortus said: “We haven’t started recording anything, when I say that, as far as in the studio doing an album. We’ve been recording a lot of stuff, just ideas, assembling ideas, but not going into a studio and actually tracking a new record.”
He added: “It’s sort of too good not to happen at this point, that’s how I feel about it. This band is really a force right now, and I definitely hope that we do, and I think we’re all sort of counting on it, and we’re also planning on it.”
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Watch ‘Broad City’ season 4 trailer starring RuPaul and Steve Buscemi
A trailer has been released for Broad City season 4.
Broad City stars creators Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, depicting a fictionalised version of their real-life friendship in New York. It has aired on Comedy Central since 2014 and also co-stars comedian Hannibal Buress.
The new trailer includes a host of special guests set to feature in the new season, such as Shania Twain, RuPaul, Steve Buscemi and Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Wanda Sykes.
The new season will premiere on August 23.
Watch below:
“Obviously the election was so devastating,” Jacobson said. Glazer added: “The mishegas [Yiddish for crazy] that was going on in the country was there no matter who won the election. But the person who got elected, it pointed our narrative in a different direction than we thought it was going to go… Now it’s just constantly moving over the girls in the show the way it is over us in real life.”
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‘Wonder Woman’ scores record-breaking opening weekend
Wonder Woman has enjoyed record-breaking success in its opening weekend.
After hitting cinemas on Friday (June 2), the superhero movie starring Gal Gadot raked in $223 million (£172 million) globally, including a huge $100.5 million (£77.8 million) at the US box office.
Wonder Woman‘s US haul is the highest opening weekend ever for a film made by a female director. Wonder Woman was directed by Patty Jenkins, who previously made Monster, a biopic of serial killer Aileen Wuornos starring Charlize Theron.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wonder Woman‘s US audience was 52% female – notably high for the superhero genre, where audiences tend to be just 40% female.
Alongside Gadot’s title character and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, the film’s cast also includes Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, Ewan Bremner and former The Office actress Lucy Davis.
Wonder Woman, a warrior princess of the Amazons, made her DC Comics debut in 1941 and was famously played by Lynda Carter, a former Miss World USA, in a popular US TV series that ran from 1975 to 1979. An unseen pilot for a TV reboot was shot in 2011 but NBC decided not to order a full series.
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Serj Tankian joins Audioslave members to perform ‘Like A Stone’ in Chris Cornell’s memory
Prophets Of Rage were joined by Serj Tankian of System Of A Down to pay tribute to the late Chris Cornell.
The supergroup contains members of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill and appeared this weekend at Germany’s Rock Im Park Festival to perform their first date of Prophets’ summer tour, reports Consequence Of Sound.
The System Of The Down vocalist recently collaborated with Cornell on music for the film The Promise which stars Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon. The title track from the soundtrack was played during Cornell’s funeral.
Watch the collaborative performance below.
Prophets of Rage recently announced details of their self-titled debut album, sharing lead track ‘Unfuck the World’.
The album is set to be released on September 15 and features cover artwork by renowned street artists Shepard Fairey.
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Watch Pharrell and Miley Cyrus perform ‘Happy’ at the Manchester One Love concert
Pharrell Williams was joined by Miley Cyrus tonight at the Manchester One Love concert to perform the NERD singer’s hit single, ‘Happy’.
Williams started his brief set with Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’. Before the collaboration with Miley, the singer began by sharing some words: “Despite all the things that have been going on in this place, I don’t feel, or hear, or smell, or see any fear in this building. All we feel here tonight is love, resilience, positivity”.
Miley followed the set with one of her own tracks, ‘Inspired’ a track from her upcoming yet-to-be-titled album this year and later appeared with Ariana Grande to perform Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’.
The concert will see performances from Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Mac Miller, Take That, Niall Horan, and others with all the proceeds going to the We Love Manchester emergency fund, which has been set up by Manchester City Council, in conjunction with the British Red Cross.
Earlier, a leaked setlist appeared online that revealed that Coldplay would appear to play three tracks including ‘Fix You’ and ‘Viva La Vida’.
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