Reviews by Time Bomb

Years pass, but eight are long - said Adriano Celentano around the middle of the fabulous' 60s. It's been just eight years from the moment Alex Turner and Miles Kane have recorded the first record together as The Last Shadow Puppets. An eternity for a band, a period quite acceptable when you consider that the Puppets are a side / super group formed by the leaders of Arctic Monkeys and Rascals, with the producer / drummer James Ford (half of Simian Mobile Disco) and bassist Zachary Dawes.

last-shadow-puppets everythingNonostante has just pointed out that we are dealing with a side project, the statement of the boy of the street Gluck expresses a concept incontrovertible: 8 years are actually long. Many things can happen, especially when at stake is the fateful transition from "entities" to "enta". There you can transfer to Los Angeles continuing to churn out discs of great value with the Arctic Monkeys (in the case of Alex Turner), or you can decide to leave the Rascals and pursue a solo career, working in the meantime also on its image (here talking playboy Miles Kane). Finally can (legitimately) to change some musical references.

The Age Of The Understatement slamming it appeared on the cover a picture in black and white taken from a photo shoot in 1962; very appropriate, considering that the (beautiful) disc with both hands fished from the imaginary baroque pop of that era there. On the cover of the new Everything You've Come to Expect towers instead a young Tina Turner dancing in a photograph taken in 1969. It might seem overwhelming to search metaphors at all costs, but the statements of Kane (who has publicly expressed the infatuation Isaac Hayes and the Style Council) reinforce the idea that the setting for the '60s pop is no longer so radical. The starting point remains the same, but there's been an evolution: now the band's vision is broader and takes into account stylistic perspectives that engage in other historical periods (in this case 70).

Here it is explained the harpsichord that sticks in the psychedelic title track, the intention funk that you do not expect of The Element Of Surprise, the garage punk vein (rosewater) of Bad Habits and the triumphal march (with a rhythmic which follows that of the Bolero by Ravel) Sweet Dreams, Tn. Alongside these songs that explore - albeit partially - new ways, there are also tracks like Miracle Aligner, Dracula Teeth and Used To Be My Girl, which reassure the listener remaining in territories already sifted previously.

At best experiments shine (see Sweet Dreams, Tn and Everything You've Come To Expect), at worst simply "work" (in this regard nothing I taken down by the thought that the single Bad Habits would be half without 'string arrangement by the very talented Owen Pallet, a key component for the sound aesthetics of Puppets). On the other hand the talented Alex Turner has never been questioned. It is rather the harmony of the couple that raises some doubts: you feel a palpable gap between the two talking heads, which today give the impression of being two (valid) polar opposites that interact, whereas in the first record their personalities seemed to merge with more naturally.

The inevitable confrontation with The Age Of The Understatement then leaves little doubt: the debut sounded fresher and seemed more convinced of the new work. There was a different energy, and perhaps (but this is my personal view) more concentration. It also had to do with other thick texts, and the desire to offer a tribute to a precise historical period reinforced the Turner and Kane merits. This does not mean that Everything You've Come To Expect an album is to be avoided, indeed (for avercene, final as The Dream Synopsis): simply bow to (presumably high) expectations of those who waited eight long years to hear that that - taking a cue from the title of the album, which sounds like an invitation - may on balance be considered a promise not completely maintained or a redundant confirmation. Nothing less, nothing more.

I want be frank and direct from the outset: Batman v Superman I did not like. Dear super nerd, eminent superhero movie fans, estimated blockbuster lovers based fisticuffs, I mourn to that the expected hyper mega blockbuster involving in an epic clash of the two most popular superheroes of all time is a failed film ( to be good). You want some evidence in support of my thesis ? Here are some things that do not work in the Zack Snyder film for my opinion:
THE SCREENPLAY
Zack Snyder is a director who with comic books and graphic novels has always worked. We think of 300 and Watchmen (thumb up, beautiful both), but also in The Man of Steel (thumbs down). It was to be expected, if not the depth of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, at least a convincing story. Nothing like that. The screenplay by Chris Terrio and David Goyer embarks more water than the Titanic. least questionable narrative developments, secondary characters to the embarrassing limit (Amy Adams forgive us, we like you very much, but your Lois Lane is unnerving), dreamlike inserts incomprehensible. We do not go down into the details to avoid shooting on the Red Cross.
THE REASON OF THE "FIGHT"
Let's be frank: it was not easy to find a way to live together in a film noir soul and the Gothic Batman with sci-fi flavor and Superman star. And above all find the "casus belli" to make them fight. True, the scenes of conflict between the two work very well visually, but everything can not be conditioned by reasons of the engagement that, come on, are very very weak. In fumettografia comics of clashes between the two top of the DC Comics superheroes there have been many but the premises were always a little more convincing.
THE SOLUTION OF THE FIGHT
Do not worry, I will not disclose anything about the plot and we will not tell you what happens or does not happen. But know that the prevedibilissima reconciliation between the two impromptu enemies (mica you thought the Bat Man and the Man of Steel if would be given a thrashing to the end, right?) is even less convincing than the mutual declaration of war. Thus, in the space of a second pass from groped to kill himself to loving to madness....
SUPERHEROES LEMMINGS
The feeling seeing Batman v Superman is that the two loved superheroes are easily manipulated. A newspaper headline, an image on television, the testimony of a criminal, the ravings of a mad murderess than enough to convince them that the other is a villain to be killed or otherwise a friend to help. Not to mention the crowds. That may be true, unfortunately, but looking at the Snyder film really seems that 99% of the world population is made of sheep ready to idolize or wanting to set fire to someone, depending on how the wind blows. Other than black and white, here we are right in one color. Let's say that the complexity and depth of characters such as, there we throw a random example, the Joker by Heath Ledger is only a distant memory.
BATMAN ARMED TO THE TEETH
Batman is a character that moves at ease in the dark and have pretty shady sides know for some time. And even here it starts well with a first appearance of Ben Affleck in the role of Man Bat scream. But then in the course of the film exceeds a tantinello. Steps for the brand on the faces of criminals but with pistols, rifles, machine guns and so on and so forth you overdo it too much. Bruce Wayne's not the Punisher ...
BATMAN PLACED IN A STORY OF SUPERMAN
The film begins with yet another murder and redundant version of Bruce Wayne's parents. It means that the gravitational center of the story is Batman? Needless to dream. Gotham is a virtually non-existent presence in the economy of a film that has its center positioned entirely in Metropolis. Even sidekicks and rivals are part of Superman universe and then is almost wonder that c'azzecchi Batman in everything. Very little.
LEX LUTHOR VERSION JOKER
The villain of the film is a hair Lex Luthor played by Jesse Eisenberg loaded like a spring (perhaps a little too much). Forget the characterizations "top" of other super-villains such as The Joker, Doctor Octopus and Kingpin. Here we are faced with a billionaire boy very agitated over the top that tries to take the language in the loan, and even the grimaces, the Joker. Failed mission.
RANDOM CHARACTERS INCLUDED
Given the posters, there will ruin the surprise by telling you that in the film peeps even Wonder Woman, who takes part in the final charade without a real reason. That is, to be sure the motivation is there but it is not fiction: it simply introduces the next arrival of the Justice League, the superhero team that is the response of the DC Comics to Marvel Avengers. Let's say for the team of the House of Ideas had come across in a somewhat 'more natural.
IRONY, THE UNKNOWN
Always the DC Comics is more "mature" and "adult" than the Marvel. If Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and company calzamaglieggiante evil that goes laughs or smiles (we think only the Guardians of the Galaxy or Deadpool), superheroes like Batman and Superman are devoid of the humor and lightness. Mica a defect whatever, for heaven's sake. The problem is that with such characters you can center the masterpiece (as done by Nolan with his Dark Knight), or is likely to become heavy in a strand (the superhero) now overpopulated. Here, here it is all too heavy and for most "heavy."
DURATION "MONSTRE"
It contributes to the general heaviness and not just the playing time more than high. Two and a half hours are likely to be too many, especially if the narrative is left aside and you play all the chips on the technical and visual. Good fights, but after two hours of fistfights real risk is the saturation. Dear Batman and Superman expensive, not always two is better than one.

That kitten on the cover, is not there for so long. Have you ever tried to tease a kitten to play with? The cat is a sweet animal, but when he wants to know, becoming a small tiger: "It 'a creature simply alive, strong in his weakness, able to arouse emotion in all of us pure, direct, authentic," said Elisa commenting the cover of her new album. The songs on "ON", the ninth studio album by the singer of Monfalcone, are like this: apparently docile and tame, but within a few seconds will reveal impetuous and engaging.

The disc arrives in about two and a half years after the previous "The soul flies", an album that had seen Elisa try for the first time in almost twenty years of career with a repertoire all Italian; with "ON", the singer returns to sing in English: only two of the 13 tracks on this record are indeed sung in Italian. All songs were written by the same Elisa, who sometimes availed of the collaboration of some international authors such as Keely Bumford, D. Allan Rich and Jud Friedman, creators for Whitney Houston, Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and Giorgia. The only exception is "Waste your time on me", written by Jack Savoretti along with Pedro Vito Sebastian and Sternberg. The album was produced by Curt Schneider, in 2014 in the band as bassist and songwriter for the first time in the control room for a hard Elisa: the processes were held, on several occasions, between autumn 2014, the summer of 2015 and the autumn of 2015, including Slovenia, Povegliano Veronese, Los Angeles, Gorizia and New York. A small team of musicians has joined Elisa during the recording: the keyboards are Christian Rigano, to Andrea Rigonat guitars, bass and programming the same Curt Schneider, with drum machines and percussion Victor Indrizzo.

A sound level, the disc marks a break with previous productions of the songwriter: less guitar and drums, more keyboards, programming, synthesizers and drum machines. What characterizes a good part of these new songs is a taste for electronic music, declined in different forms: there are the power ballad style Both ( "Bad habits" and in part "No Hero"), in which pieces 'electronic lives with more acoustic sounds ( "Wast your time on me", with a cameo author Jack Savoretti; and "I smile now," engraved on the other hand with friends Giuliano Sangiorgi and Emma), hints of trip hop and drum' n ' 'bass ( "With the hurt", "Burn for you" - between the influences of the disc, as explained by Elisa in our interview, there are Diplo and Skrillex) and a couple of episodes dance pop reminiscent of the hit American pop star of 2000s ( "Ready Now" and "Rain over my head"). Alongside these we find a piece chain in electronics raids in Motown style as "Love me forever" (with a rhythm borrowed from "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins: Elisa had written this song at age fourteen, twenty five years ago), a song from the arrangement most piano like "Love is kinda war", a song dressed in soul sauce as "Hold on for a minute" (a hollow introduction that recalls Adele and more solar chorus) and a hyper-funky as "Peter pan "(a legacy of collaboration with Kolors last year). The Elisa of the very first album "Pipes & flowers", "Asile's World" and "Then Comes the Sun" peeps "Catch the light", with a thin, dry arrangement, all electric guitar and drums.

"ON" is an album that you listen willingly, without tiring. They are energetic songs and dancing, as the same title suggests, playing on the surprise: they start in a certain way and then come to take unexpected directions. Not only at the level of sound, but also to the musical structure level, thanks to a series of expedients, of all sudden jumps of octaves. The more athletic piece of the album is "Burning for You", written while participating in Friends of last year: a blast playing and stunning implosion, which leaves not indifferent listener.

To speak of a real artistic turning point is early: it would be more correct to say that "ON" could mark the starting point for a new and interesting phase of Elisa's career, that with these songs appears more extroverted version and "popular "than in the past, as she herself admitted. And 'an impetuous and physical disk that, for breaking offering, could turn up their nose to fans of the first hour of Elisa: it's an album far cry from the first productions of the singer. And 'pop, true, but it is in the best sense of the term: a nice mix in which all live together (best) facets of the music of the last fifty years, from Motown to electronics of 2000 through funk 70s , the dance pop of the 80s and 90s.

The history of the origins of Jeff Buckley is shrouded in mythology, a bit 'like the character. His "Hallelujah" is a song from a thousand lives and continues to attract periodically several generations of listeners - indeed it would be good there was a moratorium on other cover of that song, which is constantly repeated, as if anyone could add something to the immortal version son Tim. But Buckley were really not understood until it was alive. The Buckley mythology is largely posthumous.

The facts, however, say that his beginnings were complicated; that beginning was also difficult not to allow a full understanding of who he was and how good he was, between '93 and '97, the year of his death. The release of "You and I", in stores March 11 is not just another posthumous publication. It 'a piece of those origins - and a good record regardless.

As noted, "You and I", is a collection of eight covers and two original songs recorded at the Shelter Island Sound Study of Steve Addabbo in February 1993 and recently discovered.
Buckley in '92 he started playing at Sin-é, a small Irish cafe in New York (he had brought his friend Glen Hansard, at that time famous for her role in "The Committents" by Alan Parker, but this it is another story). The record companies noticed him and made to queue to listen to it and put it under contract. Eventually, in October of '92, he signed to Columbia, and was taken under the wing of Steve Berkowitz.

But Jeff was undecided on what to do with his music, he did not become the new alternative rock star, and felt a lot of pressure on him. So at the beginning of '93, four months after the signing of the contract, there were no definite plans for the future. They took him into the studio and from there do these sessions - largely unpublished. The idea was to leave it free to play, so that he himself and sbloccasse. Then it was decided to launch it with a low profile, with an EP (the "Live at Sin-é", in fact, at the end of '93) and then finally get to "Grace" in September '94 - but generated a lukewarm reaction .

The so-called "Addabbo sessions" are themselves the subject of mythology once: something was leaked on the net, within states that were also engraved the first demo of "Grace".
Original "You and I" contains the title track of the debut album and "Dream Of You And I", perhaps the most touching thing about the disc: it is not a song, he tells Buckley and plays the idea of a song, he explains, and is the sound picture of the time when you finally let go - as well as having a beautiful melody.

Cover songs on the disc, many are already known and loved in other versions: "Calling you" (the soundtrack of "Bagdad Café" - one of the pieces in which Jeff pulls better his voice), to "Just like a woman "Dylan and" Night flight "of Led Zeppelin, played thick at Sin-é (and included in the Legacy Edition of 2003) to the two covers of the Smiths" I know it's over "and" the boy with the thorn in His side ". Others were far less known, if not entirely unknown, as "Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone, not surprisingly used as the launch of the song.

What makes it unique, "You and I", in a posthumous discography inevitably overcrowded, is the quality of the recordings, both in purely sonic terms (it has been done a great work of restoration), both in terms of content. E ', in fact, an original disk, not just a historical document.

And 'yet another post-mortem exploitation? Of course, you can also read as well. This operation is done with care, and one of the most important of his death. But if you think this way, you should read the liner notes of the mother Mary Guibert, who always took care of the operation. Are disarming: you can be found after the Tracklist.

TRACKLIST:
"Just like a woman"
"Everyday people"
"Grace"
"Calling you"
"Dream of You and I"
"The boy with the thorn in His side"
"Poor boy long way from home"
"Night flight"
"I know it's over"

After the first few minutes of the film, with all that snow, that Christ in the foreground taken while the 70mm movie camera gets up to make us see the arrival of the direct coach at Red Rock and the incredible music of Ennio Morricone There goes very well in the ears to make us understand that it is indeed a western, but also a horror, maybe that's the Quentin Tarantino version westerns of Howard Hawks' the Thing and the Thing John Carpenter, we already knew this the Hateful Eight won. He won.

And when we see the figure of Major Marquis Warren, even as the director Charles Marquis Warren, played by Samuel L. Jackson who feels Lee Van Cleef, which stops the carriage where they travel bounty killer John Ruth Kurt Russell and his very bad Daisy prey Domergue (even as Faith Domergue) Jennifer Jason Leigh, who then would be the daughter of Vic Morrow, do not forget to Sledge director, old spaghetti westerns that I love, and the three began to talk, because even the largest is a bounty killer, we are already fed up with a film that has just begun.

The western fans, of course, immediately begins to build its web of references. Of course there is John Ford's Stagecoach-Stagecoach, that Quentin does not love, but Ringo John Wayne stops the carriage just like Samuel L. Jackson, then there is the coach of A Fistful of Sergio Leone, and that of hundreds and hundreds of small western. Not to mention the American TV series 60. But above all, there is the carriage in the snow of the convicts transported from Robert Hundar with his daughter Emma Cohen in the great western horror Spanish Condenados a vivir (or Cut-Throats Nine) Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent, perhaps the most similar movies thematic and violence at what she has in mind Quentin. But that movie or many movies in his head Quentin simultaneously? Meanwhile, there is a fourth passenger for the carriage, the neo-Sheriff Chris Mannix, ie Walter Goggins, the most talkative, last scion of a family of Southerners rebels, ready to confrontation with Major, who is black and has a letter Lincoln's personal with him.

Mannix brings to the film a key from the show, as the name indicates, but also brings the timeliness of an America not pacified six or seven years after the end of the Civil War, which will be the whole of the film policy key, the a clash never finished within American society, that only fiction can quench. But when the action moves and will remain there for all the film, in Minnie's Habedashery, the cursed inn where the sheriff Mannix, the two bounty killers with their prey, Daisy Domergue, who should be brought to Red Rock to be hanged, and the four come together with four other very strange characters, an English dandy, Oswaldo Mobray, Tim Roth, a general old Southerner, Sanford Smithers, that is, the heroic old Bruce Dern, a strange cowboy who tells him to go to his mother, Joe Gage, that is, Michael Madsen and Bob the Mexican Demian Bichir, also able to play the piano, but none of these has anything to do with the old owners of the inn, the Indian Minnie Mink and her husband Dave Sweet, it is clear that the film takes another turn. That is, we are in the realm of stageY westerns, usually very rare, more suited to the western TV series, because he is poor, that the true western, although Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead by Giuseppe Vari, written by Fernando Di Leo, with Klaus Kinski as bad, but all are fake and bad there, it's what you have in your head Quentin.

He has in his head, of course, also the great silence of Sergio Corbucci, another western with snow with Klaus Kinski bad, Jean-Louis Trintignant dumb and Vonetta McGee black presence. And let's also great movies of the '30s and' 40s, such as The Petrified Forest Archie Mayo or as John Huston's Key Largo, which are the basis of every great black comedy whole set in one set apart from the world. Yes, because you will have to destroy these four characters in search of some kind of truth in the night they will spend together. And, of course, no one is what it claims to be. The only truth that is given us to know is that there is a red candy hidden in the floor. Sign that something unpleasant has happened recently in the inn, and that the door was broken. Everything else I do not say.

But I tell you that it is a film in which Tarantino plays with itself and with its cinema, not only with the one he loves. Use the spaghetti western to give greater strength to his characters, but he thinks deeply about the American cinema, by Howard Hawks in Delmer Daves, and American society today, to his violence. Not at all a peaceful film, but a film where you do not make concessions to anyone. Even in the violence, as usual, you will save not irony and found almost classic cartoon, Tex Avery. It is an ensemble film, where no actor is really more important than the other. It is also a very free movie, to the point that at the end of one of the six chapters, do not tell you who, the same goes Tarantino with his voice on the field, he tells how things are and says with a flash back sosa really happened. And to make matters worse at this point the film becomes a real yellow. But not at all. It is always and only an American disguised as spaghetti westerns westerns that hides a science fiction horror depth on the type of the thing, that the music of Morricone, partly recovered from that Carpenter's film, exalts. But the end is also something deeper and even more free. For this more difficult to win the Oscar. But it's a great film.

If you're given the task of interpreting a film with the speculative mind of a genius indisputable, it may help not to make too many stupid moves. That said, consider a triumph as well Steve Jobs, a film so innovative and surprising in the design and implementation to leave intimidated.
Michael Fassbender is moving very well in the role of volcanic co-founder and CEO of Apple, a man badly in relationships, but capable of flying very high when it comes to revolutionize the world of personal computers and anything else digital, from music to animation (with Pixar) publishing, up to those iPhone that we are wearing as if they were a second skin. The Jobs of Fassbender is a tornado of ferocity, anger and repressed feelings. It is also fascinating, seductive and fun, which makes it even more dangerous if you get too close.

The screenplay, written by Aaron Sorkin, won an Oscar for The Social Network, is absolutely brilliant. Sorkin has not only followed the bestselling biography by Walter Isaacson: he absorbed in her DNA, and said with a bold structure and a very personal point of view. He divided the film into three periods, each telling the story of the launch of a product created by Steve Jobs, shot in three different formats by Boyle with the help of the talented cinematographer Alwin Kuchler. The first part is in 16mm film in low resolution and is set in 1984 in Cupertino, California, where the 29 year-old Steve Jobs created the first Macintosh. The second, on 35mm, opens with a conference at the San Francisco Opera House in 1988, in which Jobs, downloaded from Apple, NeXT presents the general indifference. The last part, filmed in digital high definition, takes place in 1998 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where Jobs, again at the helm of Apple, announced a spectacular presentation of the new iMac. As Jobs, who always rush to do the next thing, Sorkin leaves you with the task of keeping up the story. But it is a challenge that is worth collecting.

Congratulations to the teacher Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) for directing the three acts of the script with the pace of a thriller. Boyle also knows how to fill the spaces (few) between words and reveal the emotions of the masses of people who enter and exit the tumultuous life of Jobs. Sorkin moves the characters on a chessboard (remember Birdman), without worrying too much to check if they were really present during some of the outbursts of Jobs, but always making sure that their actions and reactions reflect a truth often hard and uncomfortable.

The actors could not be better at reciting a long duel 14 years against the man who has compared himself to Julius Caesar, an emperor surrounded by enemies. A superb Seth Rogen reveals the wounded heart of Steve "Woz" Wozniak, cofounder of Apple who can not take lightly the refusal of Jobs and his team recognize the success of the Apple II. And Jeff Daniels, actor icon Sorkin in the HBO series The Newsroom, can interpret every nuance of the personality of John Sculley, CEO of Apple, who dismisses Jobs kicking off his cruel revenge. But there is someone who can tame this fierce perfectionist? The marketing director of Polish Joanna Hoffman, comes close. Interpreted by Kate Winslet Oscar, can radiate courage and grace in equal measure, Hoffman is the only person who gives a hard time to the head. She is scolding billionaire Jobs for leaving misery in his former lover Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) and his stubbornness in not wanting to recognize the paternity of his daughter Lisa, five years.

Sorkin has never tender with the protagonist, adopted son with the horrible tendency to keep distant loved ones. But Fassbender also makes us a glimpse of his humanity. What they do not see is the Steve Jobs older and richer, married Laurene Powell and father of three, who has created more miracles branded Apple, fought pancreatic cancer, which consumed his body and for which He died in 2011 at 56 years. The film aims to capture the man behind Steve Jobs, and tell it in three public events in which people who defined their life in relation to his came forward at the last minute to give it a sound punishment. Hard? Yes it is. But it is essential to talk about a pioneer who created products from coating immaculate and stylish to hide all the intricate circuitry inside. Steve Jobs shows us for the first time these internal circuits, never belittle the role of rebel and visionary who changed our digital life, and continues to do so today.

There is a passage in the interview that both priceless granted in December to Rolling Stone, the American one. He explains how to write for third parties: compulsando smartphone stores where ideas, trying to match a singer and song, sniffing the air pulling looking for popular topics. The Australian songwriter exposes the prosaic nature of his profession in the new album "This is acting", the seventh in a discography full of little twists and turns, a journey in search of an identity in constant evolution. "This is play", the title says. Both mean that it does not express itself, but in the role of others as you would an actress playing pieces he wrote for Rihanna, Adele, Beyonce, Shakira, and they refused. Waste are, literally, but a half rivals anything nowadays transmit radio networks. Lighter than the previous "1000 forms of fear", it follows the musical forms. The songwriting was a shameless appeal that here and there refer to the '80s power ballad, but sound and arrangements comply with the rules of the contemporary song.
If this is acting, Sia Furler is an excellent actress. She, a decade older than the pop star whose songs and provides suggestions, sings here and there as its customers, for the same phenomenon that has led many to think "Ah, the new Rihanna" the first time I have heard "Chandelier". And the good girl gone bad had proposed "Reaper" and "Cheap thrills" with the idea for them to finish on "Anti". The most sensational of the two, "Reaper", was composed and produced by Kanye West. It is a pop song by the candid nature, and music at the simple and imaginative vocal colorings, where Furler says in the face of Sad Reaper to come back in there, for these were many things to do. "Cheap thrills" is thin and flat. It is the song of the girl who is preparing to do havoc to the disco at any Friday night. Both voice seems rejuvenated unnaturally - ah, make up digital - while a choir of children and an oriental tune just mentioned adding another load of kitsch which he did not feel the need.
If "Footprints" is part of a group of a couple dozen songs written for the album of 2013 of Beyoncé, "Move your body" it is a Tamarra who knows Shakira a kilometer away. It is much, much better "Free Bird in September": written for the soundtrack of "Pitch perfect 2", discarded, given to Rihanna, refused, offering to Adele for "25", again rejected. It is brought home in an interpretation of passion, with shameless way and histrionic who both sing capable of rescuing even simple texts and metaphors worn. The same goes for "Alive", designed to "25", written with the English singer and songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr, to "Goon." It is the confession of a surviving his demons that celebrates itself and is built on the contrast between the verse and chorus empty aftertaste gospel. The single "One million bullets" goes beyond the concept of the album. Is not proposed it to anyone, it decided to keep for himself this song where "oh oh oh ohhh" winking at odds with the text of a love story from the end of the world.
The problem of the album is the fickle nature of the compositions and arrangements. Each piece of first choice is a jumble of clichés like "Unstoppable" and "House on Fire" sounds cheap and free of any development. It is therefore welcome "Space Between", the farewell in which both again pulls out his acting ability on the basis of a ghostly reverberations. In short, "This is acting" reveals strengths and weaknesses of Australian songwriter and in his small, dismantling the toy contemporary pop. Explains the most distracted who is behind the success of some of the biggest stars living, but does not add much to the identity of the woman he loves hide behind big blonde wigs, two-tone today. Hiding is useful, said both the show's host Ellen DeGeneres, "I can piss on the roadside with no one to follow me filmarm

Some chefs say that the most important thing for a large plate, before technique, originality, presentation and the quality of the ingredients. If we apply this formula to the movies, we can safely say that a film-like Revenant Revenant (original title The Revenant, ed) crazy ingredients: a director Inarritu, fresh Oscar for the acclaimed Birdman; a director of photography, Lubecki, among the best around (Oscar for Gravity and Birdman); the most important actor in recent years, Leonardo DiCaprio, in search of the final performance that will finally give the blessed who was Oscar win for The Wolf of Wall Street; as a soundtrack by Oscar (Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner of the National) and, not least, an epic story (but mostly true) like that of Hugh Glass, fur trapper in America unexplored in the early nineteenth century, slaughtered by a grizzly and betrayed by his companions, who died and rose and dropped in a hostile nature and beautiful, her skin torn held together only by virtue of the feeling of revenge. The greatest value of Revenant is able to maintain a balance between the miraculous narrative tension that never decreases in the two and a half hours of film, and a poetic tone / contemplative style Terrence Malick, which remains the greatest singer of the American nature. The closest reference in Revenant, however, could be the metaphysical western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), but without its excessive delays and forced silence. The camera of Inarritu accompanies the journey of Glass at extremely close distances without fear of tarnish on his breath or difficult to stain of his blood: the author of Revenant is there, with your feet in the snow and in the water along with his protagonist, regardless of frost, of pain and fear. And we are with him. In this film, someone will continue to prefer Birdman, more programmatically artsy and ambitious, but others (including this writer) remain convinced that Revenant is the best film of Iñárritu: a majestic tale that no one detail too, where everything appears to be spontaneous , essential, and at the same time checked in every minimally.

"Speaks evil "is the third album of Judah, the first rock band Roman - who with his previous work has attracted the attention of the American press - public with the reborn Burning Heart, the Swedish label that over the years '90, and 2000 was the reference for the production of garage punk and hardcore groups of international importance. the album is composed of ten new tracks in which the passion of Judas for vintage '70s rock-style british, be it glam or punk, results in a sound that reflects the live sound of the band.

The ten tracks on "Evil Speaks" are characterized by the mix of catchy melodies and raw guitar riffs . The disc was recorded at GreenMountainAudio.

The everlasting love. There is ambition for a more powerful director that know how to tell the feeling more utopian and moving to the big screen? Probably not. And that desire to get to the absolute value and poignant illusion that often trips up even the best. As Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar winner and author of great works and how you can not Baarìa and perhaps not sufficiently appreciated as author gender, special talent that he has not been able to grow properly after dazzling debut with the Camorra. Mainly because it was more appreciated by critics and audiences, wrongly, for its melodramatic genre. That, you know, is one of the most dangerous and slippery strands film, constantly bringing in a narrative (and interpretations of the protagonists) over the top. And that's what happens in the latest film by this author appreciated that the right tone, in almost two hours, I do not guess never. If the Italian version is penalized by a dubbing embarrassing, you can not be completely attributed to it the mediocrity of a work that has the talent of its creator, only a few shot from teacher and little more.
Difficult to talk about this feature without a glimpse of a piece of the plot, but we'll try since all were determined to avoid any spoilers, we were not even in the presence of Star Wars. Jeremy Irons and the beautiful Olga Kurylenko very sorry but here are two lovers: he renowned astrophysicist and her graduate student in the matter but also stuntwoman, as if to sum up the career of the actress, former muse of Malick and Bond girl. The fate will separate them, but he did not make a right, finding ways to stay close and obsess her. She, of this morbid and garbatissimo stalking - web, email and mobile - will be victim and accomplice, forcing us to look to suffer in the face of an infinite love and solipsistic that never finds, or almost a physical outlet, already difficult in six years of their history, because he married her third wheel condescending.
The film suffers from a fragile subject, from a screenplay sloppy in his incredible plot twists, in the broadest sense of the term, as in his dialogues-monologues that never bring you to that empathy would arouse. Irons, caged in a display on the screen, is a two-dimensional ghost, as well as her lover, never able to get out of that figure of female mourners and submissive, pathetic and pathological, even in his own solitude.
Everything seems hostage to a filmmaker who is torn between the urge to indulge in easy emotional rhetoric and trying to draw a parabola exemplary of technology, (de) formation sentimental and improbable actors (think all'Ottavio-Charon starring Paul Calabresi) that only serve to confirm a theorem as stubborn as bumper. Unfortunately Correspondence is perhaps the worst film by Giuseppe Tornatore, which does not recover even in a soundtrack redundant, in a photograph plastic and in a setting without a flash, leaving the school assembly that flattens the different visual languages.
Although the fascinating idea already present in The latest offer of absence-presence physical and metaphysical, witty and powerful inspiration of the penultimate work of director, here becomes only a pretext, labile path through which to reach the end of the trip with repetitive and boring inability to amaze and engage the viewer.
And you end up, at best, to enjoy a match, yes, but of love nonsense.