This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. In the music video for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” (1997), lead singer Richard Ashcroft walks down a blue-gray London street, bumping into passersby, bowling over the girls and pissing off the guys. When you’re famous and beautiful on film, these are things you can get away with. Ashcroft represents a thoroughly contemporary creature—the 20th-century star, who, on a small screen today, looks more or less like the 21st; the detached, ambivalent, self-involved face of the modern urban world; the flâneur with somewhere to go, or something to […]
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The post Girlblogging: Cléo from 5 to 7 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 9/12/2023
- by Matilda Lin Berke
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. In the music video for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” (1997), lead singer Richard Ashcroft walks down a blue-gray London street, bumping into passersby, bowling over the girls and pissing off the guys. When you’re famous and beautiful on film, these are things you can get away with. Ashcroft represents a thoroughly contemporary creature—the 20th-century star, who, on a small screen today, looks more or less like the 21st; the detached, ambivalent, self-involved face of the modern urban world; the flâneur with somewhere to go, or something to […]
The post Girlblogging: Cléo from 5 to 7 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Girlblogging: Cléo from 5 to 7 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 9/12/2023
- by Matilda Lin Berke
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Tl;Dr:
The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” was inspired by The Rolling Stones and doo-wop. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had writing credits on the song. They gave up those credits.
The Rolling Stones‘ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards used to have writing credits on The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” Subsequently, Jagger and Richards came to a magnanimous agreement with a member of The Verve. Here’s a look at one of the most unusual legal cases in the history of classic rock.
The Temptations and The Rolling Stones inspired The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’
Richard Ashcroft was the lead singer of The Verve. During a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone, he explained the origin of the song. “I wanted something that opened up into a prairie-music kind of sound, a modern-day Ennio Morricone kind of thing,” Ashcroft said. “Then after a while, the song...
The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” was inspired by The Rolling Stones and doo-wop. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had writing credits on the song. They gave up those credits.
The Rolling Stones‘ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards used to have writing credits on The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” Subsequently, Jagger and Richards came to a magnanimous agreement with a member of The Verve. Here’s a look at one of the most unusual legal cases in the history of classic rock.
The Temptations and The Rolling Stones inspired The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’
Richard Ashcroft was the lead singer of The Verve. During a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone, he explained the origin of the song. “I wanted something that opened up into a prairie-music kind of sound, a modern-day Ennio Morricone kind of thing,” Ashcroft said. “Then after a while, the song...
- 7/10/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
After seemingly denouncing the pop-leaning Planet Her and Hot Pink, Doja Cat has joked about dropping a rock/spoken-word album and, alternately, vowed to lean more heavily into hip-hop and rap. She delivers on the latter promise with “Attention,” the first single from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled fourth studio album.
Doja recently told Rolling Stone that the new album is influenced by ’90s hip-hop in particular. And, indeed, the hypnotic “Attention” opens with the sounds of a gentle harp and the distant, ominous howls of a wolf before a crisp breakbeat straight out of 1995 kicks in, as the rapper-singer waxes sensual about how “it” is “hungry” and seeks “affection.”
Throughout, Doja claps back at her critics over her appearance and social media presence. She drops an in-character reference to the comparisons she’s received to Nicki Minaj, but her flow here nods more to Lauryn Hill.
The influence of the ’90s...
Doja recently told Rolling Stone that the new album is influenced by ’90s hip-hop in particular. And, indeed, the hypnotic “Attention” opens with the sounds of a gentle harp and the distant, ominous howls of a wolf before a crisp breakbeat straight out of 1995 kicks in, as the rapper-singer waxes sensual about how “it” is “hungry” and seeks “affection.”
Throughout, Doja claps back at her critics over her appearance and social media presence. She drops an in-character reference to the comparisons she’s received to Nicki Minaj, but her flow here nods more to Lauryn Hill.
The influence of the ’90s...
- 6/16/2023
- by Sal Cinquemani
- Slant Magazine
It’s common knowledge that the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song “Red Right Hand” is the hit most associated with the Scream franchise. Still, there was another single that almost made its way into scary movie canon with the release of Scream 2 (1997).
Rather than an unnerving anthem for the villain, this song would have represented the complicated triumph of the hero. As it stands, Scream 2 concludes with Sidney standing tall and walking away from the terrors that had been deployed to exploit and destroy her. She’s accompanied by the song “She Said” by Collective Soul, a beautifully reflective rumination on a life filled with loneliness and regret, one in which truth, purpose and forgiveness is emotively sought.
But, as well as the song fits, it was not the first creative choice for the sequel’s concluding sequence. When Bloody Disgusting recently spoke with Grammy and Peabody...
Rather than an unnerving anthem for the villain, this song would have represented the complicated triumph of the hero. As it stands, Scream 2 concludes with Sidney standing tall and walking away from the terrors that had been deployed to exploit and destroy her. She’s accompanied by the song “She Said” by Collective Soul, a beautifully reflective rumination on a life filled with loneliness and regret, one in which truth, purpose and forgiveness is emotively sought.
But, as well as the song fits, it was not the first creative choice for the sequel’s concluding sequence. When Bloody Disgusting recently spoke with Grammy and Peabody...
- 5/12/2023
- by Paul Farrell
- bloody-disgusting.com
The highest compliment one can pay Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s viciously delectable “Do Revenge” is that it should stand alongside the many iconic teen flicks it both cribs from and pays homage to. The premise, which follows two teenage girls opting to seek revenge on one another’s rivals sounds, upon first inspection, like “Strangers on a Train” at a posh private school. But that’s too simplistic a take. After all, Robinson’s project owes less to Hitchock’s infamous classic than to the likes of “Heathers,” “Mean Girls” and “Cruel Intentions” — influences the film wears proudly on its stylish and appropriately throwbacky Y2K-era sleeves.
You can see why Robinson (“Someone Great”) and co-writer Celeste Ballard (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) would want to take up Patricia Highsmith-via-Hitchcock’s narrative and ensnare it in the world of petty high school politics. The intrigue of two strangers,...
You can see why Robinson (“Someone Great”) and co-writer Celeste Ballard (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) would want to take up Patricia Highsmith-via-Hitchcock’s narrative and ensnare it in the world of petty high school politics. The intrigue of two strangers,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Using crime-filled Shibuya of the 90’s as his setting, Toshiaki Toyoda presents a true guerilla film, which frequently functions as a music video.
The film starts with a mysterious, almost catatonic young man named Arano, walking in the street and bumping everyone around him, in a more violent edition of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” music video. Eventually, he stumbles upon Kamijo, a young club-owner who struggles to stay away from the Yakuza, despite the fact that he is kind of a gangster himself. Through a series of violent episodes, Arano ends up in Kamijo’s group, as the latter appreciates his knack for violence. Their relationship though, is anything but smooth.
Toshiaki Toyoda presents a world where violence is the rule, where every man seems to be a gangster or on his way of becoming one. This world seems to be a perfect fit for Arano,...
The film starts with a mysterious, almost catatonic young man named Arano, walking in the street and bumping everyone around him, in a more violent edition of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” music video. Eventually, he stumbles upon Kamijo, a young club-owner who struggles to stay away from the Yakuza, despite the fact that he is kind of a gangster himself. Through a series of violent episodes, Arano ends up in Kamijo’s group, as the latter appreciates his knack for violence. Their relationship though, is anything but smooth.
Toshiaki Toyoda presents a world where violence is the rule, where every man seems to be a gangster or on his way of becoming one. This world seems to be a perfect fit for Arano,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
It’s always nice to see a film to lay its cards on the table at the outset. Imagine my delight when Jamie Adams’ latest feature Bittersweet Symphony opens with a particularly saccharin Christmas celebration, suddenly interrupted by Submarine’s Craig Roberts. Playing ex-boyfriend to Suki Waterhouse’s Iris so obnoxiously, it’s impossible to believe that the family don’t throw him out at the earliest opportunity. When this lead weight of an opener then transitions to a needless time-jump to five days earlier, it’s safe to say the film has shown its hand.
Bittersweet Symphony is a true stinker of a film. Not a technical disaster of dodgy CGI, editing or staging. No, this is closer to something on the level of The Room, albeit with slightly more competent performance and direction. A human drama seemingly written by someone with only a passing understanding of human behaviour,...
Bittersweet Symphony is a true stinker of a film. Not a technical disaster of dodgy CGI, editing or staging. No, this is closer to something on the level of The Room, albeit with slightly more competent performance and direction. A human drama seemingly written by someone with only a passing understanding of human behaviour,...
- 4/12/2021
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Other openers include ‘Animals’ and ‘Holiday’.
Franchise titles Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and The Angry Birds Movie 2 are aiming for different audiences in their opening weekends at the UK box office, with The Lion King looking to hold its top spot for a third week.
Universal’s Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off from the Fast & Furious franchise, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as a special agent and mercenary who team up to stop a genetically-enhanced villain played by Idris Elba.
As the below chart shows, the franchise has steadily grown since...
Franchise titles Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and The Angry Birds Movie 2 are aiming for different audiences in their opening weekends at the UK box office, with The Lion King looking to hold its top spot for a third week.
Universal’s Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off from the Fast & Furious franchise, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as a special agent and mercenary who team up to stop a genetically-enhanced villain played by Idris Elba.
As the below chart shows, the franchise has steadily grown since...
- 8/2/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The festival has assembled a strong programme for local audiences.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), proudly proclaiming its status as the world’s longest continually-running film festival (running since 1947) wrapped on Sunday with the world premiere of Adrian Noble’s Mrs Lowry & Son, starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave.
The festival opened 10 days earlier with the scrappily entertaining Boyz In The Wood by Scottish director Ninian Dorff, setting the tone for the fifth edition under artistic director Mark Adams.
An eclectic range of features was dotted with the UK premieres of significant homegrown films in 2019 so far – Joanna Hogg’s Sundance-winner The Souvenir,...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), proudly proclaiming its status as the world’s longest continually-running film festival (running since 1947) wrapped on Sunday with the world premiere of Adrian Noble’s Mrs Lowry & Son, starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave.
The festival opened 10 days earlier with the scrappily entertaining Boyz In The Wood by Scottish director Ninian Dorff, setting the tone for the fifth edition under artistic director Mark Adams.
An eclectic range of features was dotted with the UK premieres of significant homegrown films in 2019 so far – Joanna Hogg’s Sundance-winner The Souvenir,...
- 7/1/2019
- by Fionnuala Halligan
- ScreenDaily
’Diego Maradona’ also lands at cinemas.
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Men In Black: International, the latest title in the popular sci-fi secret agent series is hoping to to end the three-week reign of Disney’s Aladdin at the top of the UK box office.
The fourth title in the Men In Black franchise stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as employees of a London branch of the titular agency, who must travel around the globe to counter a series of alien attacks.
Previous Men In Black films have been box office hits in the UK. The first title, Men In Black,...
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Men In Black: International, the latest title in the popular sci-fi secret agent series is hoping to to end the three-week reign of Disney’s Aladdin at the top of the UK box office.
The fourth title in the Men In Black franchise stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as employees of a London branch of the titular agency, who must travel around the globe to counter a series of alien attacks.
Previous Men In Black films have been box office hits in the UK. The first title, Men In Black,...
- 6/14/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Dead Don't Die Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle will be among the stars attending this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, it was announced today, taking part in an in person event and bringing his latest film Yesterday to the festival.
The film, which will screen alongside Joanna Hogg's lauded festival hit The Souvenir and a host of new directors in the Best of British strand at the festival, is a musical comedy, scripted by Richard Curtis, about a singer-songwriter who has an accident during a mysterious global blackout and wakes to a world where The Beatles never existed. Among the film's getting a world premiere in this section are Bittersweet Symphony, which stars Suki Waterhouse as a woman whose Hollywood dreams are about to become a reality, Emily Harris' supermatural love story Carmilla and Rowan Athale's noir thrillerStrange But True, that boasts a cast including Blythe Danner,...
The film, which will screen alongside Joanna Hogg's lauded festival hit The Souvenir and a host of new directors in the Best of British strand at the festival, is a musical comedy, scripted by Richard Curtis, about a singer-songwriter who has an accident during a mysterious global blackout and wakes to a world where The Beatles never existed. Among the film's getting a world premiere in this section are Bittersweet Symphony, which stars Suki Waterhouse as a woman whose Hollywood dreams are about to become a reality, Emily Harris' supermatural love story Carmilla and Rowan Athale's noir thrillerStrange But True, that boasts a cast including Blythe Danner,...
- 5/29/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New titles include ‘Balance, Not Symmetry’ and Emily Harris’ ‘Carmilla’.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has launched its full programme with 18 world premieres, 12 international premieres, eight European premieres and 78 UK premieres for its 73rd edition of the festival (June 19-30).
Jamie Adams’ Balance, Not Symmetry, a drama about a Glasgow art student, which has a soundtrack written by Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro, will have its world premiere as the People’s Gala screening at the event. It stars Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite and Lily Newmark. Biffy Cyro lead singer Simon Neil co-wrote the screenplay with Welsh writer-director Adams.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has launched its full programme with 18 world premieres, 12 international premieres, eight European premieres and 78 UK premieres for its 73rd edition of the festival (June 19-30).
Jamie Adams’ Balance, Not Symmetry, a drama about a Glasgow art student, which has a soundtrack written by Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro, will have its world premiere as the People’s Gala screening at the event. It stars Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite and Lily Newmark. Biffy Cyro lead singer Simon Neil co-wrote the screenplay with Welsh writer-director Adams.
- 5/29/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Here’s a first trailer for Knightfall and Gunpowder star Tom Cullen’s feature directorial debut Pink Wall, which will gets its world premiere at SXSW on March 9.
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany and Tranparent‘s Jay Duplass lead the UK romance-drama which follows the defining moments of a six year relationship.
Cullen, whose breakthrough performance came on 2011 UK hit Weekend, also scripted the movie. Producers are Maggie Monteith (Out Of Blue) for Dignity Film Finance and Talland Films, and Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets) and Richard Ellis (Black Mountain Poets) for Twenty Dollar Pictures. Chris Reed of Freebie Films is executive producer. UK-based Amp International is handling world sales.
Writer-director-actor Duplass is also well known for his feature collaborations with brother Mark Duplass. The two have made films including Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives At Home. Maslany most recently starred with Nicole Kidman in feature Destroyer and is appearing on Broadway in Network.
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany and Tranparent‘s Jay Duplass lead the UK romance-drama which follows the defining moments of a six year relationship.
Cullen, whose breakthrough performance came on 2011 UK hit Weekend, also scripted the movie. Producers are Maggie Monteith (Out Of Blue) for Dignity Film Finance and Talland Films, and Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets) and Richard Ellis (Black Mountain Poets) for Twenty Dollar Pictures. Chris Reed of Freebie Films is executive producer. UK-based Amp International is handling world sales.
Writer-director-actor Duplass is also well known for his feature collaborations with brother Mark Duplass. The two have made films including Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives At Home. Maslany most recently starred with Nicole Kidman in feature Destroyer and is appearing on Broadway in Network.
- 2/28/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Assassination Nation and The White Princess actress Suki Waterhouse has joined Keira Knightley-fronted Miss World movie Misbehaviour in the supporting role of Sandra Wolsfeld, Miss USA.
The Crown outfit Left Bank Pictures is producing the dramedy, currently in production, which is set against the backdrop of the 1970 Miss World competition in London, hosted by Bob Hope. The newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the beauty contest. When the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favorite but Miss Grenada — the first black woman to be crowned Miss World.
Knightley stars with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville and Phyllis Logan. Philippa Lowthorpe (Three Girls) will direct. Screenplay comes from Rebecca Frayn with revisions by Gaby Chiappe. Pathé handles sales.
Last year Waterhouse starred in movies including Assassination Nation,...
The Crown outfit Left Bank Pictures is producing the dramedy, currently in production, which is set against the backdrop of the 1970 Miss World competition in London, hosted by Bob Hope. The newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the beauty contest. When the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favorite but Miss Grenada — the first black woman to be crowned Miss World.
Knightley stars with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville and Phyllis Logan. Philippa Lowthorpe (Three Girls) will direct. Screenplay comes from Rebecca Frayn with revisions by Gaby Chiappe. Pathé handles sales.
Last year Waterhouse starred in movies including Assassination Nation,...
- 1/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Hidden among more than 250 movies screening at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, there’s one — well-written, relatable, and wonderfully of-the-moment — in which a mom, fed up at last with her child’s unremitting narcissism, snaps, “Not everything’s about you,” adding that it’s Ok to be selfish in your 20s, but it stops being cute when you turn 30. Xavier Dolan’s “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” is not that movie, although its director, who is 29, might benefit from seeing that other, better Toronto film, “The Weekend,” which contains the aforementioned scene, and whose central lesson he would do well to absorb: Maturity comes in realizing that you are not the center of the universe.
A work of stunning technique eclipsed by its increasingly jaw-dropping solipsism, “Death and Life” — or “How Deep Into Xavier Dolan’s Navel Dare We Gaze?” — may as well be preaching the...
A work of stunning technique eclipsed by its increasingly jaw-dropping solipsism, “Death and Life” — or “How Deep Into Xavier Dolan’s Navel Dare We Gaze?” — may as well be preaching the...
- 9/13/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
In the decade since his directorial debut “I Killed My Mother,” treasured Quebecois star Xavier Dolan has gone from breakout filmmaking talent to bonafide auteur, all before the age of 30. His expressive dramas have increased in ambition and scale , from the sprawling trans saga “Lawrence Anyways” to the frantic mother-son intensity of “Mommy.” Even his maligned “It’s Only the End of the World” benefited from a host of world-class performances, from Vincent Cassel to Marion Cotillard, as Dolan continued to expand his scope.
Now comes the former child actor’s first English-language project, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan,” a shocking misfire that nevertheless demonstrates the sheer confidence in his storytelling that Dolan has cultivated over a decade of movies. It’s the only possible explanation for this baffling ensemble piece, a campy (if at times inspired) burst of melodrama and ludicrous scenarios caving into each other...
Now comes the former child actor’s first English-language project, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan,” a shocking misfire that nevertheless demonstrates the sheer confidence in his storytelling that Dolan has cultivated over a decade of movies. It’s the only possible explanation for this baffling ensemble piece, a campy (if at times inspired) burst of melodrama and ludicrous scenarios caving into each other...
- 9/11/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Penny tried to rejoin the Southside Serpents, Hal moved out of the Cooper house, and Hiram ordered the death of a mob criminal on Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12.
Below, TV Fanatics Jack Ori, Paul Dailly and Justin Carreiro debate Fp's prediction of Jughead, the longevity of the Bughead relationship, and Hiram potentially getting Archie more involved in the business.
1. Veronica wanted Archie kept separate from the Lodge business dealings, but he just saved Hiram's life. Do you think Hiram will honor her request or will he get Archie more involved because he trusts him?
Jack: I didn't trust for a second that Hiram was really agreeing to Veronica's request. He definitely wants Archie involved, most likely so he can have control over his relationship with Veronica. I also thought at first that Hiram had arranged for Archie to overhear the threat as a test, but since the traitor was killed,...
Below, TV Fanatics Jack Ori, Paul Dailly and Justin Carreiro debate Fp's prediction of Jughead, the longevity of the Bughead relationship, and Hiram potentially getting Archie more involved in the business.
1. Veronica wanted Archie kept separate from the Lodge business dealings, but he just saved Hiram's life. Do you think Hiram will honor her request or will he get Archie more involved because he trusts him?
Jack: I didn't trust for a second that Hiram was really agreeing to Veronica's request. He definitely wants Archie involved, most likely so he can have control over his relationship with Veronica. I also thought at first that Hiram had arranged for Archie to overhear the threat as a test, but since the traitor was killed,...
- 2/5/2018
- by Justin Carreiro
- TVfanatic
As Veronica tells Archie near the beginning of this week’s episode of Riverdale, Catholics typically celebrate their confirmations at the age of 12 or 13, not 16. Catholics also don’t typically let you process down the aisle to songs like “Bittersweet Symphony,” and criminal poker games aren’t typically held after-hours at a local diner, and FBI agents don’t typically recruit minors to help with investigations and ask them to wear a wire without first consulting their legal guardians. But this is Riverdale. Does this show ever do anything “typical”? If you can look past the ridiculousness of some of this week’s plots,
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12 Review: “Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine”...
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12 Review: “Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine”...
- 2/1/2018
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
Chris Cummins Feb 2, 2018
Archie goes Goodfellas and there's a real Jughead problem in this week's episode. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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2.12 The Wicked And The Divine
Featuring music cues ripped from Boogie Nights and Reservoir Dogs, as well as a general Goodfellas-light air to the proceedings, tonight’s episode is a valentine to '90s cinema, and perhaps the greatest example yet of how Riverdale loves to infuse disparate pop culture elements into its increasingly ridiculous world. (This is, after all, a show that namedrops 'Bittersweet Symphony' as the “song from Cruel Intentions” as opposed to referring to it as the Verve’s best-known tune). Not that there’s anything wrong with any of this. In fact, as I've mentioned before, if there’s one...
Archie goes Goodfellas and there's a real Jughead problem in this week's episode. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Supergirl season 3 episode 12 review: For Good Supergirl season 3 episode 11 review: Fort Rozz Supergirl season 3 episode 10 review: Legion Of Superheroes
2.12 The Wicked And The Divine
Featuring music cues ripped from Boogie Nights and Reservoir Dogs, as well as a general Goodfellas-light air to the proceedings, tonight’s episode is a valentine to '90s cinema, and perhaps the greatest example yet of how Riverdale loves to infuse disparate pop culture elements into its increasingly ridiculous world. (This is, after all, a show that namedrops 'Bittersweet Symphony' as the “song from Cruel Intentions” as opposed to referring to it as the Verve’s best-known tune). Not that there’s anything wrong with any of this. In fact, as I've mentioned before, if there’s one...
- 2/1/2018
- Den of Geek
Is it just us or was tonight's Riverdale less ridiculous than usual? Sure, Betty's performing for creeps on the internet, "Bittersweet Symphony" is a weird song choice for a 16 year-old's confirmation and Archie's double life of FBI informant and Hiram's mobster mentee is getting a little out of hand, but all of this madness seems to be finally falling into place in a way we actually didn't expect. We always love this silly show, but tonight might have been the best episode in a while. Whatever Hiram's planning, we're finally kind of interested, and the Serpent storyline finally feels like it makes some compelling sense, even if we still...
- 2/1/2018
- E! Online
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