| | | Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: 'I still don't take this seriously' | | by Gwilym Mumford Aug 2, 2022 | | The emo godfathers bounced back from major label rejection to sell millions. Now they’re drawing on their past teenage energy to ride a major punk revival In the age of the Great Resignation, everyone is having doubts about their career paths, even million album-selling musicians. Take Jim Adkins. His band, Jimmy Eat World, are nearing 30 years together and the emo godfathers are still touring relentlessly. But Adkins, 46, only conceded that his band might be a going concern around a decade ago – “I thought: ‘Huh, I guess this is what I do’” – and remains dubious about their long-term prospects. “I still don’t take this seriously as what I’m going to do in my life,” he says. That scepticism may have something to do with Jimmy Eat World’s strange trajectory, which saw the Mesa, Arizona band whisked from the DIY emo scene of the mid-90s, where they’d be playing in “the craziest of places” – basements, friends’ houses, the back rooms of churches – and on to major label Capitol, a place where, in Adkins’s words, they had “no business being”. He remembers visiting Capitol’s New York offices – “back when labels had actual buildings in really expensive cities” – and being greeted with giant double-door-sized posters for P, a short-lived alt-rock band fronted by Johnny Depp, the sort of superstar Capitol were more accustomed to dealing with. Adkins mimics the baffled faces of the employees. “They were like: “Err, can we help you guys?’” Continue reading... | | | | | The Last Son review – outlaw has to kill or be killed by his own kids in gothic western | | by Leslie Felperin Aug 2, 2022 | | Sam Worthington plays a bad dude in this beautifully scored, authentically unhygienic drama Somewhere in the wild west, sometime after the civil war, legendary outlaw Isaac LeMay (Sam Worthington) decides to take his fate into his own hands and circumvent a prophecy that he can only be killed by one of his own children. That means tracking down his many offspring and slaying them first, one by one. A man of very few words but blessed with an inordinate abundance of hair and uncanny luck when it comes to avoiding bullets, LeMay has a few talents, but not a lot of charm. Also, he’s clearly never read any fairy tales of Greek tragedies otherwise he’d know that an ironic twist lies directly in his path in the last act, one that most viewers will see coming from miles across the prairies and hilly terrain. Meanwhile, LeMay is himself being tracked by various unaligned bounty hunters and folks with a grudge or cause, such as gun-and-tracker-for-hire Solomon (Thomas Jane), a former Union soldier who was raised by Native Americans, Cal (Colson Baker, AKA rapper Machine Gun Kelly) a son of LeMay who’s taken up the family trade of outlawing even though he never met his Pa. (In a couple of on-the-nose scenes the latter gets to operate an actual machine gun.) There’s also a daughter, Megan (Emily Marie Palmer), who seemingly felt slighted when LeMay declined to kill her, thinking she was too meek to pose a threat. Continue reading... | | | | | A bear in the backyard – a photo essay | | by Michiel van Noppen, photographs by David Hup Aug 2, 2022 | | A story about the connection between the remaining wilderness of Europe and the young democracy called Romania In the sparsely populated settlements that lie in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, the presence of bears is keenly felt. Habitat and therefore food is becoming scarcer for bears because ofillegal logging. On their quest for food, bears have to descend more frequently from the ancient forests into villages, which ultimately results in conflicts between man and bear. Bears emerge on the quiet streets of a town in Transylvania. When night falls, and the streets become quiet, the bears come out and search for food Continue reading... | | | | | From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies | | by Scott Tobias, Charles Bramesco, Jesse Hassenger, Adrian Horton, Veronica Esposito, Andrew Pulver, Benjamin Lee, Radheyan Simonpillai, Lisa Wong Macabasco, AA Dowd and Andrew Lawrence Aug 2, 2022 | | As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all time When John Woo’s 1989 breakthrough The Killer started slipping into repertory houses and cult video stores, it was the beginning of a revolution, like an adrenalized marriage between the cool of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï and the operatic bloodletting of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. But The Killer turned out to be a mere throat-clearing for Woo’s follow-up, Hard Boiled, which kicks off with a shootout in a teahouse filled with birdcages (bullets and feathers go flying) and builds to 40mins of pyrotechnics at a hospital that swings unforgettably through the nursery. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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