After the summer superhero takeover, fall brings with it a slew of new dramas and comedies ready to grace cinema screens.
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Preview of Fall Music
The release of new albums always calls for exploration and rediscovery, whether that be of artists releasing a sophomore effort in the wake of a successful debut or of artists who have been absent from the music scene for over a decade.
A new season comes with new TV shows to add to your list
The arrival of fall brings many new things. The leaves change, campus is filled with more than 5,000 new kids with lanyards around their neck and terrified expressions on their faces, the weather gets chillier (just kidding, this is L.A.). But one of the best things to come with September is all the new television shows.
Soundbite: Coexist
While discussing the xx’s upcoming sound in a December 2011 interview with Digital Spy, producer Jamie Smith said that club music had a major influence on their next album.
Movie Review: Little White Lies
Academy Award-winner Jean Dujardin, devoid of his slick handsomeness seen in “The Artist,” is Ludo, a player stumbling drunk through a nightclub, hair thinning, making out with his friend’s girl. He hops onto his motorbike and rides through the Parisian streets as the sun rises, the camera following him for so long we are lulled by his hungover ride.
Soundbite: "The Tarnished Gold"
In a line on the very first track of “The Tarnished Gold,” the band Beachwood Sparks croons to the listener that there’s a “winter in my heart.” The lyric strikes an ironic chord as we soon begin to realize that this is not an album for the chilled winter soul, but for hazy summer days.
Colin Davis, best known for his Spring Sing involvement, lands an apprenticeship with Fox
The first script Colin Davis ever wrote was in crayon. He was 5, and the movie was called “Run or Die,” a film he made using his family’s video camera about how his family became stranded on an island with dinosaurs, and escaped by building a raft and paddling off into the sunset. Even then, Davis said he remembers channeling his inner-director.