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Part of Alice Cooper ’s enduring appeal has been the fact that, unlike many of his Seventies FM-radio peers, he always rejected the notion that rock & roll should be Serious Art. “School’s Out” is just a distant cousin of Chuck Berry’s “School Days,” and “I’m Eighteen” is inherently funny since Cooper was 23 when it became a hit, and he hasn’t stopped singing it for the past 50 years. That’s why his great Seventies albums like Love It to Death and Killer were great in the first place. You could be in on the joke (or not) and still feel a genuine connection to the group’s gritty Detroit rock. That spirit of rock & roll abandon still exists in Cooper’s music half a century later, and his inherent showmanship is why people still fill theaters to see his guillotine act. It’s also why his records are still fun to listen to: You never know where he’s headed. Related Reviews Alice Cooper Celebrates His Birthday With New Single 'Social Debris' Strippers, Drag … [Read more...] about Alice Cooper Pays Homage to His Hometown With a Wink on ‘Detroit Stories’

Before the summer 2016 release of Telefone , the debut album that launched her to a quiet kind of stardom, Noname considered quitting rap. “I used to care-give, so I probably would’ve went back to doing that,” she says. “Maybe would’ve got my nursing degree, and just become a nurse. That was the only other thing that I enjoyed doing.” Music, at that point, wasn’t paying the bills: “I was only able to pay my rent through doing little one-off college shows and maybe a feature for $300 here and there,” she adds. “I was in the financial in-between of, ‘Should I continue to try to pursue this, or should I just get a job?'” One of those one-off features, though, was for Chance The Rapper, her Chicago compatriot, on his breakout album Acid Rap in 2013. It’s a scene-stealing performance on a scene-defining full-length and, not long after, people were waiting for more from the quietly confident, rhythmically daring rapper. See Also Drakeo the Ruler Just … [Read more...] about Noname Is One of the Best Rappers Alive

The Producers Guild of America on Friday revealed its nominees for the PGA Awards ’ Sports, Children’s and Short Form categories. The winners will be revealed as part of a new virtual event, “A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees,” which is set for March 20. Making the cut on this year’s list revealed today are are titles including three sports entries from HBO : Hard Knocks: Los Angeles, Real Sports and T he Shop: Uninterrupted for its special episode with former President Barack Obama. Among the Children’s noms is the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Hulu’s Animaniac s, which was just renewed for Season 3 this week. Winners in the PGA’s theatrical and TV categories will be announced March 24 during the main 32nd annual PGA Awards, which will be virtual this year because of the coronavirus. Those noms will be revealed March 8 in the guild’s shifted timeline. Also to be awarded March 24 is the documentary prize, with David Attenborough: A Life on … [Read more...] about PGA Awards Sets Sports, Children’s And Short Form Nominations: ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’, ‘Hard Knocks’, ‘Carpool Karaoke’ On List

Norwegian director Maria Sodhal made her first feature, Limbo , a decade ago and her second makes the reason for the long time gap dramatically clear: She developed lung cancer, which then metastasized and spread to her brain, a virtual death sentence. But she fought back and lived to make a film about it, the closely observed Hope , which is all she had going for her as she faced almost certain oblivion. It’s grim stuff, to be sure, but the innumerable intimate details and shifting moods keep Norway’s International Feature Oscar shortlist title percolating with the things of life. Stellan Skarsgard ), a prominent theater director some 15 years older, plus six children between them and her dad. Even though she’ll need a high dose of steroids to avoid brain death, hospital specialists are mostly away over the holidays and she prefers to keep the news from her family. But to Tomas she confides, “It feels like I’ve known it for ages,” then shortly adding, “When I’m gone, I … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Norway’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Hope’

Horror is woven into political drama in La Llorona , the riveting Golden Globe Foreign Language Film nominee and shortlisted International Feature Oscar contender from Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante . An elderly wealthy man hears ghostly noises in the night. He is revealed to be former army general Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz), on trial for genocide. In court, Mayan-Ixil women give heartbreaking testimonies about systemic rape and murder by his men. At home, his own family begins to question his innocence of sex crimes and war crimes. Is Enrique being haunted by the eponymous La Llorona, the weeping woman of legend who cries for her lost children? Related Story Int'l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Norway's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Hope' The women are the ghosts of Enrique’s past, either figuratively or literally, and each of these sheds a light on his crimes as the film progresses. Doctor daughter Natalia (Sabrina De La Hoz) is beginning to see her father … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Anna Smith On Guatemala’s Golden Globe Nominee & Oscar-Shortlisted ‘La Llorona’