Exclusive: A documentary about legendary Pacific Northwest band The Sonics, who influenced the likes of Nirvana, Mudhoney and The White Stripes, has been picked up by nascent distributor The Forge.
Jordan Albertsen’s Boom: A Film About the Sonics will get a limited theatrical release across North America in the first quarter of next year after local premieres in Seattle and LA and The Forge will represent worldwide sales and start looking for international deals at AFM next week.
The Forge was set up by producer and Vashon Island Film Festival director Mark Mathias Sayre and recently released Brett Smith’s directorial debut and Civil War-epic Freedom’s Path.
The Sonics were formed in 1960 in Tacoma and had a large roster of members, who have reunited regularly over the years. The band also influenced the likes of The Stooges and The Cramps. Kurt Cobain once said that The Sonics’ drum sound...
Jordan Albertsen’s Boom: A Film About the Sonics will get a limited theatrical release across North America in the first quarter of next year after local premieres in Seattle and LA and The Forge will represent worldwide sales and start looking for international deals at AFM next week.
The Forge was set up by producer and Vashon Island Film Festival director Mark Mathias Sayre and recently released Brett Smith’s directorial debut and Civil War-epic Freedom’s Path.
The Sonics were formed in 1960 in Tacoma and had a large roster of members, who have reunited regularly over the years. The band also influenced the likes of The Stooges and The Cramps. Kurt Cobain once said that The Sonics’ drum sound...
- 10/27/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Well known for being the birthplace of grunge and home to many successful musicians and groups from a variety of genres, Seattle has established itself within the music space as a cultural hub. Over the last 50 years the city’s growing music festival scene has also made it a must-visit destination for music lovers and festival goers around the world.
This year brought us the rebirth of one of Seattle’s most iconic music festivals, Bumbershoot, which, after a three year hiatus, returned to Seattle Center to celebrate its 50th anniversary in September.
This year brought us the rebirth of one of Seattle’s most iconic music festivals, Bumbershoot, which, after a three year hiatus, returned to Seattle Center to celebrate its 50th anniversary in September.
- 10/6/2023
- by Lauren Ballantyne
- Rollingstone.com
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Dozens of previously unseen Nirvana prints have dropped online as part of a new photography release on Sonic Editions, the site known for its collection of affordable, fine art photographic prints. The new collection features both color and black-and-white images of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl in both raw and staged moments throughout their career.
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Spanning nearly a decade, the collection...
Dozens of previously unseen Nirvana prints have dropped online as part of a new photography release on Sonic Editions, the site known for its collection of affordable, fine art photographic prints. The new collection features both color and black-and-white images of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl in both raw and staged moments throughout their career.
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Spanning nearly a decade, the collection...
- 9/12/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Mudhoney are releasing a deluxe edition of their sophomore album, 1991’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, to mark the LP’s 30th anniversary. The remastered set arrives on July 23rd via Sub Pop and it’s available for preorder.
In conjunction with the announcement, the group dropped a Duncan Sharp-directed video for “Ounce of Deception,” which features archival footage from their live performances. The song originally appeared as a B-side to 1991’s “Let It Slide” 7-inch.
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition features the original album along...
In conjunction with the announcement, the group dropped a Duncan Sharp-directed video for “Ounce of Deception,” which features archival footage from their live performances. The song originally appeared as a B-side to 1991’s “Let It Slide” 7-inch.
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition features the original album along...
- 5/26/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Pearl Jam has announced a livestream of their second of two Home Shows Seattle concerts, six months after the band hosted a pay-per-view stream of the first of the two 2018 gigs.
In August 2018, Pearl Jam played a pair of “Home Shows” concerts at Seattle’s Safeco Field to raise money to fight homelessness. Two years later — in August 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic — the band premiered the full-concert video of the August 8th, 2018 performance via Nugs.net.
Following fan requests, Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that the Home Shows Night 2 livestream of the August 10th,...
In August 2018, Pearl Jam played a pair of “Home Shows” concerts at Seattle’s Safeco Field to raise money to fight homelessness. Two years later — in August 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic — the band premiered the full-concert video of the August 8th, 2018 performance via Nugs.net.
Following fan requests, Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that the Home Shows Night 2 livestream of the August 10th,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Portland punk trio the Wipers played their first hometown gig, opening for a couple of New Wave-y California groups, in 1978. Fifteen-year-old Jerry Lang, a recent Portland transplant, was in the audience, and when the Wipers took the stage, he wasn’t sure what to make of them. “They weren’t really fashionable, as far as punk goes,” Lang remembers. “They weren’t dressed in the punk uniforms — spiky hair or safety pins — so the crowd wasn’t too crazy about them.” But when they kicked into their captivatingly gnarly originals,...
- 8/28/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Often exhibited in grindhouses and “art” houses under its original title Rope of Flesh, this was nudie-cutie auteur Russ Meyer’s second dramatic effort following his groundbreaker, Lorna. It’s a violent rough-and-tumble rural melodrama overflowing with lots of, um, pulchritude. The Meyer stock company is back, along with various pneumatic lovelies and some memorable grotesques. A true independent, Meyer pioneered the expansion of the Us censorship envelope through his own inimitable directorial and editing style.
The post Mudhoney appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post Mudhoney appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 2/19/2020
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
The late Russ Meyer’s films are the epitome of excess. Pairing a wine with them seems unfair to the wine. It couldn’t possibly keep up. Whiskey might be more appropriate, or a shot of tequila or three, or a bottle of Captain Morgan and a liter of Coke. However, I’m sure we will stumble across a wine that leans into life like Meyer did.
Russ Meyer’s IMDb page nicknames him “The Fellini of the Sex Industry” and “King Leer.” The sultan of sexploitation liked big breasts better than anything else. His stint as a Playboy centerfold photographer in the 1950s may have steered him in that direction. Playboy wine, direct from their recently launched wine club? Why not? For starters, anyway.
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Meyer rued the day he started working on The Seven Minutes. He later called the film “boring and tedious...
Russ Meyer’s IMDb page nicknames him “The Fellini of the Sex Industry” and “King Leer.” The sultan of sexploitation liked big breasts better than anything else. His stint as a Playboy centerfold photographer in the 1950s may have steered him in that direction. Playboy wine, direct from their recently launched wine club? Why not? For starters, anyway.
https://www.grubstreet.com/2012/09/playboy-launches-a-wine-club.html
Meyer rued the day he started working on The Seven Minutes. He later called the film “boring and tedious...
- 2/17/2020
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
Eddie Vedder’s prickly and lonesome guitar soundtracks the mountain climbing training regimen of tour manager and grunge scene legend, Bobby Whittaker, in a new clip from Return to Mount Kennedy.
Whittaker worked for years with bands like R.E.M., the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Mudhoney, but the film centers around his desire to climb Mount Kennedy in Yukon, Canada. Mount Kennedy holds a particular importance for Bobby: The mountain was named for John F. Kennedy after his assassination, and, in 1965, Bobby’s father Jim — a legendary mountaineer who...
Whittaker worked for years with bands like R.E.M., the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Mudhoney, but the film centers around his desire to climb Mount Kennedy in Yukon, Canada. Mount Kennedy holds a particular importance for Bobby: The mountain was named for John F. Kennedy after his assassination, and, in 1965, Bobby’s father Jim — a legendary mountaineer who...
- 11/5/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: 1091 Media is teaming with the outdoor co-op Rei to release Return to Mount Kennedy, a documentary helmed by Eric Becker that combines elements of history, politics, mountaineering and even some grunge, with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder providing original music.
A plan is underway for a fall theatrical release followed by an on-demand bow November 5. Rei will also host in-store screenings nationwide.
The film’s plot sets its base-camp on March 20, 1965, when Bobby Kennedy became the first human to stand atop a peak in the Canadian Yukon that had just been named to honor his brother John F. Kennedy, assassinated two years earlier. His guide was Jim Whittaker, who at 28 had became the first American to summit Mt. Everest and later became CEO of Rei. Whittaker and Kennedy became fast friends, with the former becoming Rfk’s Washington state campaign chairman before Bobby Kennedy himself was assassinated.
The...
A plan is underway for a fall theatrical release followed by an on-demand bow November 5. Rei will also host in-store screenings nationwide.
The film’s plot sets its base-camp on March 20, 1965, when Bobby Kennedy became the first human to stand atop a peak in the Canadian Yukon that had just been named to honor his brother John F. Kennedy, assassinated two years earlier. His guide was Jim Whittaker, who at 28 had became the first American to summit Mt. Everest and later became CEO of Rei. Whittaker and Kennedy became fast friends, with the former becoming Rfk’s Washington state campaign chairman before Bobby Kennedy himself was assassinated.
The...
- 10/4/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1989, Bruce Pavitt, the founder of the Seattle label Sup Pop, hatched a plan to boost the profile of several of his bands, including a pre-fame Nirvana.
“During the pre-internet 1980s, it was difficult for struggling regional bands in the United States to achieve any national media attention,” he wrote in the 2013 book Experiencing Nirvana. “In England, the situation was different.” Pavitt attributed this to two factors: “The swift transmission of information enabled by the mutually combative ethos of the weekly U.K. music magazines” and “the country’s geographical compactness.
“During the pre-internet 1980s, it was difficult for struggling regional bands in the United States to achieve any national media attention,” he wrote in the 2013 book Experiencing Nirvana. “In England, the situation was different.” Pavitt attributed this to two factors: “The swift transmission of information enabled by the mutually combative ethos of the weekly U.K. music magazines” and “the country’s geographical compactness.
- 7/30/2019
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
In 2011, Rolling Stone asked readers to name their favorite punk bands of all time, with thousands of fans anointing the Ramones, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Green Day and others as the best the genre has to offer.
They were all wrong.
There is only one right answer: The greatest punk band of all time is the Queenhaters. Formed (and disbanded) on March 18th, 1983, the British punk group, comprised of Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin, appeared on Mel’s Rock Pile, a show also...
They were all wrong.
There is only one right answer: The greatest punk band of all time is the Queenhaters. Formed (and disbanded) on March 18th, 1983, the British punk group, comprised of Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin, appeared on Mel’s Rock Pile, a show also...
- 5/22/2019
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
On Hole’s 1994 breakthrough album, Live Through This, frontwoman Courtney Love presented a gruesome prophecy: “If you live through this with me/I swear that I will die for you,” she sings on the hypnotic, rumbling “Asking for It.” Love belts the line with more restraint than she usually displays: a disarming moment of vulnerability from the world’s then-most cataclysmic woman.
Love wrote the song after a 1991 show in Glasgow, after Hole wrapped up a European tour with Mudhoney. In one fleeting moment of punk rock abandon, Love stage-dived...
Love wrote the song after a 1991 show in Glasgow, after Hole wrapped up a European tour with Mudhoney. In one fleeting moment of punk rock abandon, Love stage-dived...
- 4/12/2019
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
As the frontman of Green River, Mark Arm sang on the first record that Sub Pop marketed with the word “grunge.” When the band’s Dry as a Bone Ep came out in 1987, the label described it as “ultra-loose grunge that destroyed the morals of a generation.” At the time, it was a throwaway term that described the quality of the music more than a genre signifier. “In the early Eighties, it was just more of an adjective, like, ‘That’s just really grungy,’ like, ‘gnarly,'” Arm says. “It meant a raw,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Three grunge luminaries who were once members of the band Green River — Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament and Mudhoney’s Mark Arm — break down the origins of the genre in the latest episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Senior Writer Kory Grow joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the band’s importance and play portions of his interviews, which were previously published as part of an in-depth oral history of Green River and Seattle’s nascent rock community in the mid Eighties.
Reflecting on the group’s earliest days,...
Reflecting on the group’s earliest days,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Strokes, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jenny Lewis, Tash Sultana, Incubus and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats will lead the 2019 Ohana Festival. The fourth annual fest will run from Friday, September 27th through Sunday, the 29th at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 8th at 10 a.m. local time.
The eclectic line-up also features Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers, Glen Hansard, Mudhoney, LP, Devendra Banhart, White Reaper, Benjamin Booker, Jacob Banks, Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real,...
The eclectic line-up also features Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers, Glen Hansard, Mudhoney, LP, Devendra Banhart, White Reaper, Benjamin Booker, Jacob Banks, Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
When Green River hit their groove, they played a vicious mix of snarling punk and gigantic hard-rock riffs. It was a heavy, menacing sound, and in the mid-Eighties, nobody really knew what to call it. “I think we just considered ourselves rock & roll guys who grew up on punk rock,” drummer Alex Shumway says now. “We realized that there was some music that we liked before we became hardcore kids that we were afraid we listened to, but then we admitted we liked it. And we started making music like that.
- 2/1/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
30 years later, 1988 still stands as rap’s greatest year. The lyrical molotovs of ‘Nation of Millions’ and ‘Straight Outta Compton, the post-modern (and pre-lawsuit) free-for-all of sampling, the national spotlight of a new show called ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ and much more. To celebrate 30 years, Rolling Stone’s Best of ’88 explores the 10 greatest songs from those explosive 12 months. See our previous entries on Rob Base and D.J. E-z Rock, Epmd and Run-d.M.C.
The first nationally embraced volley of Seattle rap, Anthony “Sir Mix-a-Lot” Ray created a hyper-localized classic...
The first nationally embraced volley of Seattle rap, Anthony “Sir Mix-a-Lot” Ray created a hyper-localized classic...
- 11/6/2018
- by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
Not much changes in Mudhoney’s world, and that’s a good thing. Three decades after they helped kick-start grunge with their lumbering, gritty guitar riffs and frontman Mark Arm’s sardonic snarls, they simply sound like a better, defter, maybe even snottier version of their younger selves on their 10th album. They send up social-media culture on the hilarious “Kill Yourself Live” (“Do it for the likes!” Arm wails), right-wing terrorists on “Please Mr. Gunman” and neanderfucks on “Hey Neanderfuck.” It’s a loose, wild, silly outing, as well...
- 10/4/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
King of Hearts Productions will release the documentary feature "I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney", on DVD, February 19, 2013, focusing on 25 years of performing by the influential Seattle Washington 'grunge' band 'Mudhoney':
"...'I'm Now' follows Mudhoney's 25-year career, from early beginnings in the Pacific Northwest through the band's most recent world tour. Testimonials from friends, music industry veterans and musicians include Stone Gossard & Jeff Ament ('Pearl Jam'), Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon ('Sonic Youth'), Kim Thayil ('Soundgarden'), Jonathan Poneman ('Sub Pop') and the band themselves..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney"...
"...'I'm Now' follows Mudhoney's 25-year career, from early beginnings in the Pacific Northwest through the band's most recent world tour. Testimonials from friends, music industry veterans and musicians include Stone Gossard & Jeff Ament ('Pearl Jam'), Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon ('Sonic Youth'), Kim Thayil ('Soundgarden'), Jonathan Poneman ('Sub Pop') and the band themselves..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney"...
- 1/23/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
How big a "Singles" fan are you? You may have worn out your CD of the best-selling soundtrack and made a pilgrimage to the landmark apartment house in Seattle. And you probably know all the cameos: Eric Stoltz is the mime that won't shut up, Tim Burton is the dating video director, and that's Jeremy Piven as a hyper supermarket clerk chatting up lead Campbell Scott. But for the film's 20th anniversary (it was released on Sept. 18, 1992) we've unearthed 25 things you might not know about "Singles," including that it was once set in Arizona or that it might have starred Johnny Depp(!). 1. "Singles" was in the works as early as 1984 and was originally going to be set in Phoenix, Arizona. 2. The movie took a different course after the 1990 death of Andrew Wood, the lead singer of Mother Love Bone (whose remaining members would go on to form Pearl Jam.). As...
- 9/19/2012
- by Jessie Heyman
- Moviefone
Before we dive into the first installment of “Now & Then”, I want to just take a few moments to explain exactly what it is. In “Now & Then” movies, both horror and non-horror will be analyzed from the point of view of seeing the film at a younger age and then the point of view of watching it in the present. The movie I have chosen for the first installment is a movie that is very important to me and influenced me immensely growing up the 1996 independent classic Glory Daze from writer/director Rich Wilkes.
Glory Daze is the story of a group of tight knit friends in college who find themselves two days away from graduation. Jack (Ben Affleck) is starting to panic as he starts to contemplate what the future holds for him and begins to worry that the last few years were the high point and everything else...
Glory Daze is the story of a group of tight knit friends in college who find themselves two days away from graduation. Jack (Ben Affleck) is starting to panic as he starts to contemplate what the future holds for him and begins to worry that the last few years were the high point and everything else...
- 8/13/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
Welcome to a potential new feature on the Jiba: Mindhole Blowers, where we troll the Internet and listen to DVD Commentaries of our favorite films and bring you some of the fascinating minutia about them. Because Cameron Crowe is back in the spotlight, with a documentary on Pearl Jam coming out soon, and filming on We Bought a Zoo having already begun, we kick off the series with one of my all-time favorites: Singles:
Citizen Dick's album name, Touch Me, I'm Dick, was a direct reference to a Mudhoney song, "Touch Me, I'm Sick." There was a complete listing of songs on the fictional Citizen Dick album made up by Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament. Chris Cornell ended up writing songs based on each title. One, "Seasons," made it onto the soundtrack. Another, "Spoonman," wound up on a future Soundgarden album.
Cameron Crowe toyed with the idea of naming the movie,...
Citizen Dick's album name, Touch Me, I'm Dick, was a direct reference to a Mudhoney song, "Touch Me, I'm Sick." There was a complete listing of songs on the fictional Citizen Dick album made up by Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament. Chris Cornell ended up writing songs based on each title. One, "Seasons," made it onto the soundtrack. Another, "Spoonman," wound up on a future Soundgarden album.
Cameron Crowe toyed with the idea of naming the movie,...
- 5/16/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
By Zachary Swickey
We’ve been longing for a new Modest Mouse record for a while now, and it appears our cries have been answered through Twitter (truly the the hotspot for collaboration reveals these days.) Sir Lucious Left Foot himself — aka Big Boi of OutKast — is keeping this fad alive by tweeting about his trip to the studio of the indie icons:
"Been camped out in the Lab with Modest Mouse all week, workin on the new mouse LP, coolest cats ever. Long Live the Funk."
Long live the funk, indeed! That’s all the evidence we have for now (not even a Twitpic, Daddy Fat Sax?!?), but any of sign of a new Modest Mouse record is well-received by us. And while this collaboration may sound pretty out there to some music fans, rap/rock collabos of the Wtf-nature are abundant in years past. Here’s four that...
We’ve been longing for a new Modest Mouse record for a while now, and it appears our cries have been answered through Twitter (truly the the hotspot for collaboration reveals these days.) Sir Lucious Left Foot himself — aka Big Boi of OutKast — is keeping this fad alive by tweeting about his trip to the studio of the indie icons:
"Been camped out in the Lab with Modest Mouse all week, workin on the new mouse LP, coolest cats ever. Long Live the Funk."
Long live the funk, indeed! That’s all the evidence we have for now (not even a Twitpic, Daddy Fat Sax?!?), but any of sign of a new Modest Mouse record is well-received by us. And while this collaboration may sound pretty out there to some music fans, rap/rock collabos of the Wtf-nature are abundant in years past. Here’s four that...
- 4/29/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Yesterday, the latest movement in 15-year-old Canadian phenom Justin Bieber's crusade to take over the pop airwaves premiered online. "Baby" debuted on Monday and quickly shot up the iTunes sales chart (it currently sits at #2, just behind Ke$ha's seemingly indestructible "Tik Tok"). The most notable aspect of the tune is the guest spot from Atlanta rapper Ludacris, who drops a verse about his own first love.
Though Bieber is training under the expert tutelage of Usher, it's still a relatively unexpected tag-team, as Bieber's sweet take on R&B doesn't seem like it would gel well with Luda's usually ribald delivery. However, the track works amazingly well, and it joins the pantheon of excellently weird team-ups between rappers and ... non-rappers.
Mudhoney and Sir Mix-a-Lot
The soundtrack to the 1993 film "Judgment Night" revolved around a single concept: Pairing rock bands with rappers, sometimes with hilarious results. While just about...
Though Bieber is training under the expert tutelage of Usher, it's still a relatively unexpected tag-team, as Bieber's sweet take on R&B doesn't seem like it would gel well with Luda's usually ribald delivery. However, the track works amazingly well, and it joins the pantheon of excellently weird team-ups between rappers and ... non-rappers.
Mudhoney and Sir Mix-a-Lot
The soundtrack to the 1993 film "Judgment Night" revolved around a single concept: Pairing rock bands with rappers, sometimes with hilarious results. While just about...
- 1/19/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Welcome to the weekly Newsroom Poll, where we will give you a sneak peek into the lives and minds of some of the correspondents, writers, editors and producers here at MTVNews.com. Every week, they'll answer a poll question that will reveal some of what we talk about behind the scenes here in the newsroom. Enjoy!
This week, details surfaced about one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the fall. No, not Jay-z's The Blueprint 3 or Lil Wayne's Rebirth. We're talking about the soundtrack to "New Moon," which will likely feature contributions from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Muse, Kings of Leon and Death Cab for Cutie. There was also the announcement of the soundtrack to "Jennifer's Body," the new Diablo Cody-penned horror film. With that, combined with the quarter-century anniversary of one of the finest film soundtracks ever constructed (that being Prince's Purple Rain), this week's question is:...
This week, details surfaced about one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the fall. No, not Jay-z's The Blueprint 3 or Lil Wayne's Rebirth. We're talking about the soundtrack to "New Moon," which will likely feature contributions from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Muse, Kings of Leon and Death Cab for Cutie. There was also the announcement of the soundtrack to "Jennifer's Body," the new Diablo Cody-penned horror film. With that, combined with the quarter-century anniversary of one of the finest film soundtracks ever constructed (that being Prince's Purple Rain), this week's question is:...
- 7/23/2009
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Chicago – Paramount Home Video is unleashing waves of catalog titles this month, starting with an interesting quintet of laugh-fests that range wildly in subject matter and quality.
What do they have in common? Well, three are from the “Saturday Night Live” factory - “Wayne’s World,” “Wayne’s World 2,” and “Black Sheep,” but the other two are not. Those three are also from the ’90s, another tempting way to bunch these random titles together, but “Major League” is an ’80s comedy and “Without a Paddle” is from the ’00s.
Even quality levels seem like an inappropriate way to lump these titles together as even diehard fans couldn’t claim that Chris Farley’s “Black Sheep” or the silly “Paddle” should stand next to “Wayne’s World” or the beloved “Major League”.
Why even try and lump them together? They’re all comedies. They’re all Paramount. Anyone can find at...
What do they have in common? Well, three are from the “Saturday Night Live” factory - “Wayne’s World,” “Wayne’s World 2,” and “Black Sheep,” but the other two are not. Those three are also from the ’90s, another tempting way to bunch these random titles together, but “Major League” is an ’80s comedy and “Without a Paddle” is from the ’00s.
Even quality levels seem like an inappropriate way to lump these titles together as even diehard fans couldn’t claim that Chris Farley’s “Black Sheep” or the silly “Paddle” should stand next to “Wayne’s World” or the beloved “Major League”.
Why even try and lump them together? They’re all comedies. They’re all Paramount. Anyone can find at...
- 5/12/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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