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The images couldn’t have been more different. The cover of the September 20th, 1969, issue of Rolling Stone showed a man and a child bathing in the nude in a lake, the essence of hippie gentility. A few months later, the photo on the cover of RS 50 [January 21st, 1970] was a grim antithesis: a huddled, anxious-looking crowd, shards of sunlight trying to poke through the mist. The cover line for the earlier issue – WOODSTOCK : 450,000 – was celebratory. For the latter, it was far more ominous: LET IT BLEED . By early 1969, multi-day festivals had become part of the rock & roll landscape. But as the magazine’s staff would learn, preconceptions about what a festival could be – or how wrong things could go – were about to go out the window. The publication’s coverage of Woodstock and Altamont tested the staff like never before – and proved definitively that Rolling Stone was a home for serious journalism, no matter the topic and no matter how close to home it hit. … [Read more...] about Rolling Stone at 50: Shaping Contrasting Narratives of Woodstock, Altamont

UPDATED with video: John Boyega won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Supporting Role on Sunday for his work in Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe . Boyega, who rose to prominence in the Star Wars franchise, played Leroy Logan in the “Red, White and Blue” segment of Small Axe, about the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to break the color barrier at London’s Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1980s. He whipped through his acceptance speech from his home in London tonight, thanking Amazon in the UK, the BBC and McQueen. He also confessed to wearing track pants below his camera. Small Axe , which offers five stand-alone pieces centered on racial issues in second-half 20th century UK specifically in London’s West Indian community, was named Best Feature by the Los Angeles Film Critics. The series bowed in October on the BBC and Amazon Studios. The other segments in the ambitious anthology: Mangrove , … [Read more...] about John Boyega Reps Steve McQueen’s Ambitious ‘Small Axe’ With Golden Globe Win

Grating. That's the best word to describe this flat follow-up to Shanghai Noon , the Wild West comedy, circa 1881, that co-starred Jackie Chan as Chon Wang (sounds like John Wayne, get it?) and Owen Wilson as Roy O'Bannon, his surfer-dude-talking sidekick. The sequel moves the boys to London, where they do the same shtick (Chan somersaults, Wilson wisecracks). They also try to catch the killer of Chon's father with the help of the young Charlie Chaplin and police inspector Artie Doyle, who likes Roy's name for a fictional detective: Sherlock Holmes. David Dobkin directs, though I can see no sign of a controlling hand. The outtakes at the end play like the film as a whole — anarchy without the fun. … [Read more...] about Shanghai Knights