Chris barton posts
Los Angeles Times Entertainment The Norwegian trio "Huntsville" isn’t easy to classify, they're totally UNDERRATED. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Wilco’s Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche are among their recent collaborators.
Continue reading for L.A. Times writer Chris Barton Read more ... 's OVERRATED picks of the week:
UNDERRATED: Huntsville’s “Pond”
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that's worth considering.
127 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment "With the release of 'Southpaw,' much was made of Jake Gyllenhaal hitting the gym to look less like a creep who stops blinking to break into TV news ('Nightcrawler Movie') and more like someone who can take a punch. Setting aside whether any stories Read more ... are really left to tell about underdog boxers, let’s hope the academy resists honoring another performance in which an actor fixates on his body for a role," writes Chris Barton. "Judging by any red carpet, that’s already part of the job."
OVERRATED: Actors' physical "transformations"
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
128 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment "The creator and host of the public radio staple 'A Prairie Home Companion,' Garrison Keillor has been easy to take for granted with his wobbly voice, intermittently amusing sketches and a sibilant 'S' powerful enough to summon a German shepherd," wr Read more ... ites Chris Barton. "But after his retirement next year (Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile will take over), weekends will sound a little less quaint and, in the case of Keillor’s open-hearted Midwestern monologues, a little less quietly subversive."
Overrated/Underrated: Seriously, we’re going to miss Garrison Keillor
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
128 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment "No book’s recent release has generated as much discussion as this one, which is being marketed as a sequel to the beloved classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” (in case you’ve been living on Pluto the last few weeks)," writes Chris Barton. "The co Read more ... ncerns about key characters behaving out of character are enough to view the novel with some hesitation, but its standing as a rough draft by author Harper Lee reveal its status as more of a lucrative curiosity than a continuation."
OVERRATED: ‘Go Set a Watchman’
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
128 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment Los Angelenos looking to New York for validation? Definitely overrated. See what else missed (and made) the cut this week in Chris Barton's Overrated/Underrated column.
Overrated/Underrated: It really doesn’t matter what New York thinks
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
131 months ago
Refinery29 Mischa Barton has some choice words about her mother these days
Mischa Barton Is Suing Her Mom
social.refinery29.com
All is not well in the house of Barton. Echoing Marissa and Julie Cooper's mother-daughter issues, former O.C. star Mischa Barton has filed a lawsuit against her mother for exploiting her fame and withholding earnings. Nuala Barton is branded as a "g Read more ... reedy stage mother" in the papers filed in the
132 months ago
NBC News "While Barton was busy perfecting her craft and turning her acting dreams into reality, her mother, defendant Nuala Barton, was secretly scheming to exploit Barton's burgeoning career for her benefit," the lawsuit states.
Mischa Barton Sues Mom, Accuses Her of Stealing Earnings
nbcnews.to
The lawsuit also accuses Nuala Barton of kicking her daughter out of a multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home bought with money Mischa had earned.
132 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment On this week's Overrated list, Chris Barton takes on "Mad Men."
"Though not half as important or impeccably crafted as it often presents itself, this series led by the handsomely flawed Don Draper begins its final farewell April 5," writes Barton. Read more ... "Somewhat like the Velvet Underground, 'Mad Men' will be remembered as the sort of work that not many people saw, but those who did probably wrote an essay about its impact, which if we’re being honest was most tangibly reflected by a spike in midcentury furniture prices and bourbon sales."
Also overrated: Mark Ronson’s "Uptown Funk."
Overrated/Underrated: Let’s settle down about ‘Mad Men’
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
132 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment OVERRATED: "Ghostbusters" for men
"In news of as-yet unmade movies, Sony Pictures took all the goodwill it earned with a planned all-female "Ghostbusters," which includes the superb Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, and burned it to the ground with w Read more ... ord that an all-male version is being developed as well," writes Chris Barton. "Considering that the second, male-centric reboot was announced after a sexist Internet backlash to the first, Sony may not be afraid of ghosts, but it seems awfully scared of something else."
More from this week's Overrated/Underrated: http://fw.to/smGqMIW
Overrated/Underrated: Navigating the pop cultural landscape with Chris Barton
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
132 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment In this week's installment of Overrated/Underrated, Chris Barton praises Lauren Weedman on Looking, writing that she's a "chronic scene stealer as the lone female voice on this HBO series." The show The Slap on the other hand? It's a "drab story of c Read more ... onniving New Yorkers," that he says comes off "like an oddly smug wildlife documentary."
Overrated/Underrated: Oscars edition
timelines.latimes.com
There's a lot of pop culture to sort through week after week. Times staff writer Chris Barton offers his take on what's up and what's down in music, movies, television and just about anything else out there that is worth considering.
133 months ago