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A WELCOME SURPRISE
Jenny Slate's Obvious Child is the abortion narrative cinema has been lacking
INTERVIEW: EDDIE IZZARD, FORCE MAJEURE
"My theory is that all humor is human."
REVIEW: HER
Unh Unh Her
INTERVIEW: FAT MIKE OF NOFX
NOFX have been indulging belligerent teens and grown-ups for over 30 years. At least 60% of that time, lead singer/bassist Fat Mike and the crew have made it their mission to refuse interviews. Times have shifted in recent years, but this hung in my head as I prepared to chat with a band I’ve followed for nearly 20 years. I had a feeling it could be tricky, but it had to be done. 14-year-old Scott demanded so.
=&0=&Well yeah, if there’s a show we’re going to be partying hard, but I should have had 3 or 4 days sober so I think I’m in good shape. We will be in Boston for Thanksgiving. We’re going to be eating oysters.
=&1=&Probably. I don’t worry about me too much because I only party when I’m on tour. When I’m at home I’m pretty straight and narrow.
=&2=&Well thank you sir. I definitely don’t write anything for any audience. I’m just trying to write lyrics that I think are good. I don’t think about it, I’ll come up with song titles and I’ll have them for a year or two in my phone. Then when I start writing songs, I’m like, “Oh, I can work off of this!” Lyrics come last. First song title, then melody, then lyrics.
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REEL TALK: GAMER’S END
Some say it’s good, some say it’s bad, but nobody says it’s great.
WHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE HIP-HOP HOPE …
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass Ave. From there, he took me back to 1989, when TDS ran the calendar with a year of rap perfection.
REVIEW: I DECLARE WAR
TOP 10 KUNG FU MOVIES YOU COULD BE STREAMING ON NETFLIX RIGHT. NOW.
‘The only thing better than seeing a kung fu master somehow manage to combine parkour with decapitation is watching the severed head explode, gruesomely, in a mix of what is clearly food-dyed oatmeal and Hawaiian Punch.’
The sugar-cookie high is starting to fade, and Uncle Marty’s drunken sex-life questions are only just beginning: Face it, if you’re going to make it through the rest of this holiday, you’re going to need some help.
Some deadly, deadly help.
Luckily, there’s:
10.) Enter the Dragon: Holidays are all about tradition, so I’m kicking off the list with one of Bruce Lee’s best. What could be better than a movie starring the grand-daddy of ass kickers? One that’s spiced with a dash of blaxploitation.
9.) Pray For Death: I’m sure I don’t have repeat the old truism, “you never know a ninja’s true strength until he moves his family to a depressed city in America, is threatened by a local crime syndicate, and, in order to avenge the wrongs done to him, goes back to his secret ninja teaching.”
Not ringing a bell? Then clearly you need to brush up on your Pray For Death.
8.) Supercop: Sometimes, when my mind is clouded with visions of Rush Hour 3 and the Jaden Smith Karate Kid, I forget that Jackie Chan is more than just a genial sidekick: He’s really, really awesome at kung fu.
Luckily, Supercop, packed with fight scenes, explosions, helicopter rides of death, and vaguely Kim Jong Il-looking military leaders reminds me why I loved him – and Michelle Yeoh – in the first place.
7.) Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame: Full disclosure: Detective Dee isn’t super-heavy on the fight scenes. But the ample doses of albino henchmen, underground hermit cave-cities, and spontaneous human combustion more than make up for that little oversight.
Fuller disclosure: if that’s not enough to make you want to watch Detective Dee, I don’t want to know you.
6.) Goemon: The story of a Japanese Robin Hood out for vengeance, Goemon has some of the best fight scenes of any movie on this list.
Though the dubbing is pretty terrible, and some of the flying-through-the-air ...