Before Van Halen exploded onto the scene with their self-titled debut, punk and disco ruled the roost. Rock was dead… or so everyone thought. As it happened, it was just taking a nap. “This is the 1980s!” declared singer David Lee Roth. “And this is the new sound – it’s hyper, it’s energy, it’s urgent.”…
Coldplay is among the best performing rock bands of our time. The group were initially known as Pectoralz, then they became Starfish, and eventually settled on Coldplay after seeking legal counsel over the different spelling possibilities available for “ColdPlay.” The British rock band boasts nine studio albums, six live albums, and four DVDs. They also…
Most people would agree that 2020 didn’t make the shortlist for the best year ever. After all, it was when COVID-19 spread throughout the world, thus necessitating emergency measures to slow its spread as much as possible. Everyone came up with ways to cope. Unsurprisingly, listening to music was one of the most popular. Luckily,…
The Cars played their first show together in 1976. Two years later, they released their self-titled debut, an album that’s been certified 6x platinum and that’s widely regarded as one of the best debuts in rock history. Almost ten years and a handful of platinum-selling albums later, the Cars disbanded, only to briefly reunite in…
When you are watching a movie, and you get to see a casting that features Julia Roberts and the likes of Susan Sarandon, you can be sure that it will stir some emotions in you. The movie Stepmom was released on Christmas day of 1998, and although it starts slow, it might make you shed…
28 Days Later is a 2002 British film starring Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson, and Naomi Harris. The storyline revolves around the main character, Cillian Murphy, who wakes up from a coma only to realize that there’s a highly contagious virus dubbed “Rage” wreaking havoc on the community. The first human contracted the virus…
There have been a lot of Batman movies. From the mid 2000s to the early 2010s, there was The Dark Knight trilogy, which received a fair amount of praise in their time. For proof, look no further than the fact that the three movies managed to make more than $2.4 billion at the box office….
The movie “Con Air” is an American action thriller of the 1990s starring Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, and John Cusack. Simon West directed the blockbuster hit film and also directed “The General’s Daughter” in 1999, “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” in 2001, “When a Stranger Calls” in 2006, “The Mechanic” in 2011, and “The Expendables 2”…
The Fault in Our Stars is an American romance movie released in 2014. It features stars like Willem Dafoe, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolf, Ansel Elgort, and Shailene Woodley. Its director was Josh Boone, who drew inspiration from the 2012 novel, The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. The story revolves around a 16-year-old cancer…