Jack Black stars in an amazing fantasy video of his own with the song "Tribute" for his band, Tenacious D. The conceit of the song is that in a spontaneous battle with a demon of Rock 'n Roll, at a random time, with no audience, the D accidentally created the greatest Rock song in the world...and now they'd like to play it for you but they can't remember exactly how it goes. So what they are playing is just a…
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Visions of Harmony 2016
One of the more bizarre crossover collaborations in the last decade was when NASA decided they wanted to PROMOTE one of their satellite missions by teaming up with ...Apple Music? So they got a variety of artists across genres to record tracks "inspired by" the mission to survey the moons of Jupiter. I'll leave it up to the poetic wankery of music writers at the likes of Rolling Stone to decide if any of those songs effectively capture what it…
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King Richard 2021
Wait, was I asleep? Did we already make a smash movie about Venus and Serena Williams? No? Then why are we telling THEIR story through the lens of 'the man who made the women'??? We should be focusing on the QUEENS, not the "King". Have we not learned anything these past few years?!
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Extraction 2 2023
When I wrote about the first Extraction, (boxd.it/36ryN9) I went on a bit of a rant about how I'm sick of pretentious cinephiles judging action films by the same criteria as dramas. You read things like "Exciting set pieces but ultimately cheesy dialogue and not exploring characters deeply means this is nothing more than a popcorn watch."
Imagine if I wrote about say, The Shawshank Redemption, "The actors were very believable and the story has a strong arc to it,…
