Mick Rock Doc 'Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock'
The new documentary film, Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock, is about legendary music photographer and videographer Mick Rock, best known for his iconic images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, Blondie, Joan Jett and countless others. Mick Rock shot the covers of dozens of classic album covers (Space Oddity, Transformer, Raw…
THE CONJURING 2 Review: Perfect Summer Scare
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson THE CONJURING 2 Review – Things are going bump in the night again as director James Wan returns to his horror roots after a detour into the world of car crashes and killer abs in Furious 7. In 2013, Wan re-introduced real-life husband-and-wife demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren to the world with…
Fashion Fling – Prince Style Sings On
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson When The Purple One died suddenly on Thursday April 21 at the age of 57, the world was stunned. Not only had we lost a brilliant musician and pop culture pioneer, we would never know what he would have worn next. It was always something stunning. But the Prince style…
A BIGGER SPLASH Review — Dive Right In!
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Bowie-esque rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating from a long, hard tour on the volcanic island of Pantelleria in Sicily with her lover Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts), when iconoclast record producer and flamboyant old flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his seductive, illegitimate daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) in…
Fashion Fling – A Bigger Splash, Starring Tilda Swinton & Dior
by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Tilda Swinton is a performance artist, model, and fashion icon, and an actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. Her latest, A Bigger Splash, definitely falls into the arthouse category – and its artistry is everywhere right down to the clothes on her back. Here’s the skinny: While vacationing…
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Review — Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-fi, Mystery all in One
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson From the stylistic font on the poster of 10 Cloverfield Lane to the name J.J. Abrams listed as a producer, you should have a pretty good guess that you’re in for a Hitchcockian thriller of epic proportions. The suspenseful story harkens back to the psychological mind-game thrillers of the 1950s and…
HAIL CAESAR Review — Classic Coen Kookiness
By Staci Layne Wilson and James Mandell @StaciWilson The Coen Brothers have done it again – made an ensemble crime caper comedy that’s pure tinsel town gold. Hail, Caesar! harkens back to Joel and Ethan’s salad days of the 90s, bringing to mind The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink (and maybe a note of O Brother…
DEADPOOL Review — It's Alive With Anti-Super Hero Humor
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Even though we share a last name, I knew practically nothing about Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, before stepping into the theater to watch his eponymous movie. I’m just not a superhero kinda gal – in fact, I had to ask whether the flick is based on a classic comic character,…
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Review — Monster Mash Up
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson The Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she grapples with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage, in the gentry society of the British Regency as the Napoleonic Wars rage in the background. Elizabeth’s family has fallen on hard times, and she…
Fashion Fling – David Bowie Style Lives On!
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Full disclosure – I’m a huge David Bowie fan. I, along with the world, was sad to learn that “The Man Who Fell to Earth” has now left it. And as he did in life, never leaving anything less than polished to perfection, he orchestrated every detail of his departure. “There’s…
