Love Indiana Jones? Don’t see ‘Crystal Skull’

As someone who, as a boy, spent countless hours whipping invisible Nazis in the backyard and clinging to the family station wagon in an imaginary dash to Cairo, it pains me to announce that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a dud. A long time [...]

‘Pettigrew’ is flimsy, has lovely lampshades

On your desk, is there a Cathy coffee mug filled with peanut M&M’s? If so, you will love, love, love Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a double-whammy period-costume comedy/chick flick so earnest its very title seems like a Simpsons joke. (Didn’t Marge and Lisa sneak off to see this [...]

DEAD MEADOW
OLD GROWTH (MATADOR)
The fifth offering from these Washington, DC-bred/LA-based psychedelic merchants finds Dead Meadow much more refined, but without sacrificing the feedback-laden goodness and textures that made their previous efforts so tasty. Opener “Ain’t Got Nothing (To Go Wrong)” plays like toned-down Blue Cheer—sleepy but not drowsy, groovy but not too stoney. Compared to [...]

I saw this. I care deeply about monsters and (SPOILERS)

The first thing I did last night was forget my wallet at home. Thank God for all-ages nights. Then I watched a band called Restaurant and became smitten. Two pretty men, one hi-hat made of license plates, one generic brand hollow body covered in hot pink tape, one synthesizer from the 1960s and an apple [...]

Harry Kellerman reports on Zephyr from on Sun., Jan. 6, when I was home sick: