Tibbe (Theo Maassen, Black Book, Interview) is a newspaper reporter so shy, he risks unemployment because he can’t bring himself to talk to people. Luck comes to his apartment window in the form of Minoes (Carice van Houten, Black Death, TV’s Game of Thrones), a young woman who gives him a scoop that turns into […]
Kitten
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Staying current
No one will ever accuse Electric Six of being too serious. The Detroit sextet’s shimmying dance rock is as lighthearted as it is lively. Their spirit recalls the movie “This Is Spinal Tap” in that singer Dick Valentine delivers the lyrics with macho mock seriousness. In 2003, Madness ringleader Suggs caught an Electric Six gig […]
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Paws command
Kitten front woman Chloe Chaidez had played in a cover band — performing alongside the likes of Band of Horses and Midlake — for three years before she decided to pursue something more mature and artistically satisfying than those cute, little cover songs. She was 13 at the time. One year of songwriting led her, […]
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Sugar Boxx
Extended to full length, however, it loses a lot of spark … much like Rodriguez’s own “Grindhouse” spin-off, “Machete.” Still, any fan of the women-in-prison genre won’t hate himself for watching, as it offers all of the film subgenre’s mainstays, including the sapphic ones. Cody Jarrett’s low-budgeter concerns go-get-’em WPNS (get it?) news reporter Valerie […]