THRASHIN’ screens Wednesday, July 6th at 8pm Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series.
You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143).
This month is THRASHIN’ from 1986, which I have never seen, but it sounds like Romeo and Juliet set in the world of skateboarding. Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival. Judging from the trailer, it has a young Josh Brolin, a young Sherilynn Fenn, spandex as far as the eye can see, some hideous love scenes, hardcore skating tournaments, hardcore bikinis, and hard-core Red Hot Chili Pepper pits. What it doesn’t seem to have is tattoos! Where are the tattoos?!? Still, THRASHIN’ certainly looks like a great b-movie from the mid-eighties!
THRASHIN’ launched the careers of many early skateboarders including Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Per Wielander, and many more through cameo appearances. If you have any appreciation for the popularity skating enjoyed in the mid-eighties, you have to see THRASHIN’ when it plays Wednesday evening, July 6th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of their Strange Brew film series .The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.
Disney Pixar’s INSIDE OUT is gearing up to hit theaters, and in celebration, stars Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan, and Bobby Moynihan hit the purple carpet for the films premiere. The carpet was also joined by Minnie Driver, David Alan Grier, Tony Hawk and more! Check out my pictures from the red carpet below!
Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head? Disney•Pixar’s original new film “Inside Out” ventures inside the mind to find out.
Based in Headquarters, the control center inside 11-year-old Riley’s mind, five Emotions are hard at work, led by lighthearted optimist Joy (Amy Poehler), whose mission is to make sure Riley stays happy. Fear (voice of Bill Hader) heads up safety, Anger (voice of Lewis Black) ensures all is fair and Disgust (voice of Mindy Kaling) prevents Riley from getting poisoned—both physically and socially. Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) isn’t exactly sure what her role is, and frankly, neither is anyone else. When Riley’s family relocates to a scary new city, the Emotions are on the job, eager to help guide her through the difficult transition. But when Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley’s mind—taking some of her core memories with them—Fear, Anger and Disgust are left reluctantly in charge. Joy and Sadness must venture through unfamiliar places—Long Term Memory, Imagination Land, Abstract Thought and Dream Productions—in a desperate effort to get back to Headquarters, and Riley.
Tonight, the stars of DreamWorks Pictures NEED FOR SPEED lit up the red carpet at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA for the films big-screen debut… and they arrived in style. Director Scott Waugh and stars Aaron Paul, Scott Mescudi, Rami Malek, and Ramon Rodriguez all arrived in cars from the film while eager fans cheered them on. WAMG was on the red carpet, and has a firsthand look at who was there to celebrate the films release. Check it out below.
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DreamWorks Pictures’ “Need for Speed” marks an exciting return to the great car culture films of the 1960s and ’70s, when the authenticity of the world brought a new level of intensity to the action on-screen. Tapping into what makes the American myth of the open road so appealing, the story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country journey for our heroes — one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, “Need for Speed” captures the freedom and excitement of the game in a real-world setting, while bringing to life the passion for the road that has made our love of cars so timeless.
The film centers around Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul), a blue-collar mechanic who races muscle cars on the side in an unsanctioned street-racing circuit. Struggling to keep his family-owned garage afloat, he reluctantly partners with the wealthy and arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). But just as a major sale to car broker Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save Tobey’s shop, a disastrous race allows Dino to frame Tobey for a crime he didn’t commit, and sending Tobey to prison while Dino expands his business out West.
Two years later, Tobey is released and set on revenge — but he knows his only chance to take down his rival Dino is to defeat him in the high-stakes race known as De Leon — the Super Bowl of underground racing. However to get there in time, Tobey will have to run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet that includes dodging pursuing cops coast-to-coast as well as contending with a dangerous bounty Dino has put out on his car. With the help of his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.
THE OTHER F WORD, a documentary exploring punk rockers turned fathers opens in Los Angeles and New York on November 4th. The film talks with Jim Lindberg from the seminal skate-punk band Pennywise and a bunch of other rockers (Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, Tony Hawk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rancid’s Lars Fredriksen, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) to examines what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians become society’s ultimate authorities – dads. (Directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, produced by Cristan Reilly, and executive produced by Morgan Spurlck & Jeremy Chilnick.
This revealing, funny, and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians – punk rockers – become society’s ultimate authorities – dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD follows Jim Lindberg, a 20-year veteran of the skate punk band Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band’s anthem ”F–k Authority,” to embracing his ultimately authoritarian role in mid-life: fatherhood.
Other dads featured in the film include Art Alexakis (Everclear), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Tony Adolescent (The Adolescents), Fat Mike (NOFX), Lars Frederiksen (Rancid), skater Tony Hawk, and many others.
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Here is a clip of musician and super fancy dude Mark Hoppus talking about the “F” word:
THE OTHER F WORD Opens In New York And Los Angeles November 4th
New York based Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up the SXSW doc THE OTHER F WORD, about Jim Lindberg from the seminal skate-punk band Pennywise and a bunch of other rockers (Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, Tony Hawk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rancid’s Lars Fredriksen, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and examines what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians become society’s ultimate authorities – dads.
Synopsis:
What happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads? With a large chorus of Punk Rock’s leading men – Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath- The Other F Word follows, Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band’s anthem, ‘Fuck Authority’, to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.
Here is a clip of musician and super fancy dude Mark Hoppus talking about the “F” word:
Directors Notes:
When I was a kid growing up in New York City, Punk Rockers were the people you crossed the street to avoid. So when Cristan Reilly, the film’s producer, came to me with a book her old friend, Jimmy, the lead singer of the Southern California skate punk band, Pennywise, had written about being a Punk Rock Dad, I was both repelled and intrigued. I saw him belting “Fuck Authority” on Youtube. How attainable is that credo for a dad trying to raise three girls?
I was struggling with my own version of that drill. While I wasn’t a rebellious teenager, I had the usual teenage ambitions: Where my parents had caved or sold out, i would be different. I would save the whales and Keep America Beautiful and make the world nuclear free. Amazing what happens, or, more to the point, doesn’t happen, when you suddenly find yourself with three little kids and a mortgage.
It seemed like a real opportunity to see how the most extreme version of our teenage, idealistic, rebellious selves might be struggling when placed in the real world, with real-life demands. So Cristan and i met with Jim Lindberg, who seemed nice, not so scary (off stage), and started filming the day his newest album was being released. (One of the amazing things about punk is that, while the artists might get older, new teenage fans keep finding them,so Jimmy was heading on tour at 43 to perform for 17 year-olds).
Turns out, Jim was the perfect gateway drug, and down the punk rock rabbit hole we went. We really set out to make a film following Jim through a year, as he tried to balance singing lyrics like “Fuck No! We won’t listen!” and raising daughters rapidly approaching adolescence. But we ended up following a much more complicated path, finding that every Punk Rock father we spoke to, (and they kept getting more and more Punk, as each one said, “Well if you think I’M punk, you should talk to…..”), had a similar story: Fatherhood not only challenged their basic punk rock tenets, but more profoundly opened their eyes more clearly to their own fathers.
What I found was not the story i expected. Nor was it anything I’d seen before in a Punk Rock Documentary. It was far more intense than the situational comedy and ironic humor, which we certainly recorded and which you’ll see in the movie. The inspiration to rebel was ultimately about abandonment. So the movie became a story about guys, poets in protective spikes, who would bend over backwards to be there for their children, because their own fathers had failed them when they were young.
It was a powerful and touching journey for me and my tiny team. There were several interviews i just prayed my DP could hold focus because i knew we were all getting choked up , when, for example, Tony Adolescent told us, not only about losing his father, but about losing a child, or when Flea explained why he ran away from home at 12.
I firmly believe this is not a film limited to Punk Rock fans or rockumentary aficiandos. It is for anyone who has ever struggled with reconciling adolescent dreams with adult realities. And for anyone interested in whether the sins of the father might actually be corrected by the sons. And I’m so excited to be able to share the wisdom of these most unlikely philosophers.
They will be releasing THE OTHER F WORD in theaters this fall, followed by DVD and digital releases, after which they will begin production on the George Clinton-produced doc about funk-rockers-turned-fathers, THE OTHER OTHER F WORD.
