Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Movie Review: God Bless Ozzy Osbourne

Synopsis: Ozzy Osbourne's four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented and this documentary covers it all, featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee and others. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rock's great icon. Emerging from a working class family in war torn England, Osbourne and his neighborhood friends formed Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal. Plagued by self doubt, Osbourne the solo superstar went on a binge that lasted 40 years. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne will relive the highs of his triumphs as well as his journey to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment.

I love Ozzy and have been a fan since I first heard Black Sabbath's debut as an 11-year-old just discovering hard rock. This documentary really covers a lot for the average fan, but for a die hard I think everything on here has been told before and there is still a lot of stuff that wasn't even touched upon. I don't believe there was a mention of the famous Alamo-whizzing incident and although they cover Randy Rhodes time with the band they didn't even mention Brad Gillis or Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde appears on camera but there no discussion about finding him or their time together despite their long partnership. Want some Tony Iommi? Look elsewhere. Ozzfest tales? They talk about Ozzfest for about 1 minute total.

He talks about the bat-biting and dove-chomping and Randy's plane crash and him choking Sharon but again all of these stories are well known to most of the fans. I was hoping for some new revelations.

And if you're looking for insider talk on some of the songs or records, look elsewhere (or nowhere that I know of actually). There's some live concert video (mostly with Robert Trujillo, Mike Bordin and Zakk Wylde) and songs are played throughout from all eras but there's really no discussion about the writing or meanings or anything. At one point Ozzy is watching some of his old videos and talking about them, but it's brief and all he really does is bitch about them and how stupid he looks. No insight, possibly because he just doesn't remember. I wish they could have either added a good 30 minutes to this and discussed his music and musicians or just dropped some tales of smearing feces on hotel walls and such and replaced that with useful info about the songs. I get it, drugs are bad. Figured it out on my own.

What this really tells is his rise to fame and then his lifelong struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. It's pretty heartbreaking to watch his children discuss his many failings as a father in elaborate detail. He's presented as out of control, unloving and absent... or just too intoxicated to participate in their lives when he was home. This could have been a total downer, especially when mixed with stories of trying to kill Sharon etc, but he's been sober for 5 years and it's great to see him excited about stuff like getting a driver's license.

If you get the DVD, there's just a few deleted scenes but not much really. I've got the Blu-ray and honestly I'd like to have seen maybe all of his videos or more old concert footage as extras, but that's just not to be.

This is a really entertaining movie though, very well made and definitely worth watching for any fan of Ozzy or Sabbath. I just wish it was more music-centric. Perhaps though if you'd rather hear a tale of snorting ants or lapping up somebody's whiz than what's behind the song "Mama I'm Coming Home" for instance, you'll like this a lot more than me.

7/10

In Flames vs. Trivium - Reroute to 2112

Check out this entertaining clip featuring Anders Fridén (In Flames) and Matt Heafy (Trivium) discussing their favourite food and enjoying an awesome dinner at 2112 - the recently opened restuarant of In Flames' bassist Peter Iwers and guitarist Björn Gelotte in Gothenburg / Sweden. (http://restaurant2112.com).

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New KoRn CD Listening Party

RoadRunner Germany posted this preview of the new KoЯn CD, The Path Of Totality, with some clips from all the tracks. It's due out next Tuesday. Check it out:

Monday, November 28, 2011

Kid Rock Cares

Here's the latest video for another great track from Kid Rock off his Born Free CD, "Care". It features T.I., Angaleena Presley and was directed by Mark Pellington.

Singles from Born Free:

1. "Born Free" - Released: October 29, 2010
2. "God Bless Saturday" - Released: February 2011
3. "Collide" - Released: April 25, 2011
4. "Care" - Released: October 3, 2011


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P.O.D. Are On Fire

Check out the new video from P.O.D for "On Fire", which was filmed and directed by "WUV" and look for a guest appearance by Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach. I'm not sure if these guys have a new CD coming out or what, haven't heard. Just this one track is all I've caught wind of so let me know if you know differently. Stop, drop, roll!

Movie Review: Mask Maker

Synopsis: Mask Maker (aka Maskerade) follows a young couple who purchases a 19th century plantation home and invites friends up for the weekend to celebrate. As they dig up the mystery surrounding the death of the former residents, it becomes apparent that the plantation home’s former owners have not left, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives.

Obviously inspired mainly by the classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this is a slasher that owes a lot to many more slasher movies... to the point where almost every single thing about this feels derivative. There's just nothing particularly new or inventive about this at all.

The cast and the acting are all pretty decent really. To be rated R, it's pretty tame though. There's a bit of gore, but not a whole lot, and not a lot of nudity either. It could probably easily be PG-13.

Nowadays there are just so many horror remakes I was sort of excited to see a new character and story, but even though it's not a remake it nearly feels like it. The bad guy like to cut people's faces off and wear them after he drops the axe on them... and that's about it. Typical slasher scenes, typical kills, typical cardboard characters. The setting could have been a pretty cool place, an old home out in a remote Texas area (again, see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), but it's not really important or used creatively.

In the end I did enjoy a few of the actors and there is a body count that piles up, so it's not a total loss. Something else positive that I did think stood out was the dialogue between the characters actually felt real and that's sort of unusual nowadays. As a fan of this type of film I had some fun, but if you're not into these you'll want to totally pass on this.

4/10

Sunday, November 27, 2011

New Video From Rains

Check out the cool new video for "Look In My Eyes" by the band Rains, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. It's the new single off the album Stories.

You can also check them out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rainsmusic



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Saturday, November 26, 2011

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Movie Review: Green Lanterrn

Synopsis: A test pilot (Ryan Reynolds) is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.

I really wanted to like this movie, being a big comic book geek and also a fan of Ryan Reynolds, but it's pretty hard to like. It looks really nice, with big special effects and great action sequences, but that's about as deep as it goes. In fact it looks a little over-produced really. And the story is just too simple.

I thought Reynolds did what he could with the role really, he's both funny, cocky and sympathetic at the same time. His "love interest" is Blake Lively and she's pretty easy to look at and does a nice job with her role, which was probably a bit too small really.

As the story unfolds, it's just a bit too dull for stretches with not enough action or superheroing for my liking. It's more of a sci-fi film often, which is cool, but just when I felt like it was going to get some detail it sort of dumbs itself back down. For a 2 hour film, I'd like to have seen a good 15 or 20 more minutes of GL getting his green on.

Were this made 10 years ago people probably would have flipped out for it, but as it stands it's just another in a long line of superhero flicks and we've seen most of this before... and more aptly done. Still watchable and fun at times... but lacking.

6/10

Let The Christmas Sin Begin

And so it begins... the 2011 Christmas season. I've activated all the Christmas songs on my iPod and survived Black Friday, so it's pretty much official now. I'll be shoving plenty of Christmas cheer down your throat for the next month so you might as well lay back and enjoy it. Let's start it with this one from a band I caught last year in Vegas on Fremont Street.

It's Sin City Sinners "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree", written & directed by Jason Green and created entirely on the Ipad 2.

"A Sinners Christmas" CD is available now @ Itunes & thesincitysinners.com

Sin City Sinners features Todd Kearns (Slash, Age of Electric) Brent Muscat (Faster Pussycat) Dr. Michael Ellis, & Rob Cournoyer (Raging Slab).

Sin City Sinners released their 3rd CD "A Sinners Christmas" on Nov 25th. The CD includes guest appearances by George Lynch, Ron Keel, Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) Jizzy Pearl (RATT, Love/Hate) Pete Loran (Trixter) Louie Merlino (Beggars & Thieves) Frank Dimino (Angel) & Sammy Serious (The Zeros).

A portion of the sales from "A Sinners Christmas" will be donated to the Toys for Tots Las Vegas chapter, who help to make sure less fortunate children have toys for Christmas.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Cerina Vincent Hollywood Hot Actreses

Vincent's first major role was as the Yellow Ranger Maya in the 1999 television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy.

In 2001 Vincent appeared in the feature film spoof Not Another Teen Movie as the foreign exchange student Areola, and spends the entire film nude. The character was a spoof of Shannon Elizabeth's character, Nadia, in American Pie (1999). She says that being nude throughout the entire movie made her feel much more comfortable with her body and since then she has become a nudist.

In 2003, Cerina starred in a R-rated horror film called Cabin Fever. Cabin Fever featured some of Cerina's most memorable cinematic moments including her "leg-shaving" scene and the "It's like being on a plane..." seduction and sex scene. Cerina did some more topless scenes in Cabin Fever, as well as two racy sex scenes with two different lover characters. However, following her extensive nudity in Not Another Teen Movie, Cerina was cautious about over-exposing herself in Cabin Fever, for fear of being typecast into nudity-oriented roles. This became a point of contention between her and Cabin Fever director, Eli Roth. Roth wanted a clear shot of Cerina's butt during one of the sex scenes, but Cerina vehemently refused. A compromise was reached where Cerina did the scene with her butt facing the camera, as planned, but with a bed sheet covering all but one inch of her butt crack. Roth reportedly measured the exposed region of Cerina's butt with a ruler, to make sure he "got his one inch". Due to a last-minute change in the shooting schedule, Most of Cerina's nude and sex scenes were shot very late at night, in freezing cold conditions. While this was an uncomfortable environment to be naked in, Cerina has commented on how this situation was ideal for shooting sex scenes, as cold supposedly makes a woman's breasts perkier.

In 2006, Vincent appeared in the Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie Sasquatch Mountain, alongside Lance Henriksen, and got her first leading role in It Waits. She was also in the 2007 release Return to House on Haunted Hill which made its debut straight to video.

She appeared in a 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror.

Vincent has written some movie scripts, but admitted in a recent interview that whether or not they will be produced into films remains to be seen.

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