With as in demand as Zooey Deschanel (the She) has been lately, it was logical to wonder if her 2008 collaboration with M. Ward (the Him) was going to be a one-off project. Volume Two, then, comes as a pleasant surprise a short two years after their remarkable debut. Fans of 60s influenced pop, line up here.
Intriguing for the mere fact that Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros is singing in English for the first time on record. Sigur Ros somewhat fell off after their unparalleled first two records so, were Go being released in 2004 we'd be a helluva lot more excited for it. Let's call this... "tempered anticipation."
The Oslo, Norway's Serena Maneesh, one of about 2,398 bands that cite My Bloody Valentine as an influence, drop their second record. Expect more of the same eardrum-shattering, feedback-drenched guitars backed by barely audible shoegazey vocals.
Other Releases:
Love Is All/ Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
Quadron/ Quadron
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy/ The Wonder Show Of The World
Archie Bronson Outfit/ Coconut
Boston Spaceships/ Camera Found The Ray Gun (EP)
DVDs
Without a doubt, some of the best television to air in 2009. For everyone who complains about Mad Men's slow pacing, your complaints were addressed in this, the series' best season. Without getting too spoiler-heavy, plotline seeds that had been sown since the first season were brought to fruition in season three and the series shifted into a radically new direction by the finale. Mad Men has rightfully taken its place among classics like The Sopranos and The Wire as the closest thing to literature on the small screen.
Wes Anderson's adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic garnered some of the best reviews of 2009 and boasts an exceptional voice cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwartzman. We're really looking forward to checking this out.
Everyone seemed to shit all over The Men Who Stare At Goats but Clooney (again), Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, and Ewan McGregor are all in this thing. And it was directed by Grant Heslov, director of the brilliant Good Night, And Good Luck. This can't really be that bad, can it?
Natalie Portman stars as a woman torn between two brothers: one a presumed dead soldier (Tobey Maguire) and the other his brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) who comforts Portman and her children after their loss. I'm sure there's a Spider-Man joke to be found here somewhere but I'm too lazy to look for it.
So... this is a movie about Jesse James cheating on Sandra Bullock with a Nazi stripper, right? What? Too soon?
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