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New music from David Lindes, Eyes of Eva and The Alpines
David Lindes, "Peace With a Lion" & "Jardineros"
Guatemalan born singer/songwriter David Lindes is back with two new healing and heartfelt tracks. "Peace With a Lion" is the title track of his upcoming album, and the song is a moving folk ballad, Lindes likens his father’s abandonment to a vicious, crippling attack by a predator, asking with both urgency and bafflement, “How do you make peace with a lion?” Lindes sings.
Wolf Man, The Brutalist, Hard Truths, Nickel Boys, September 5 and more
Back in Action **
The problem with co-writer/director Seth Gordon’s action-comedy isn’t that it’s just the latest iteration on a seemingly endless string of movies with the basic premise “person living as a mild-mannered suburbanite is secretly a current spy/former spy/professional killer/other form of badass;” it’s that the movie does absolutely nothing with that concept that isn’t boring. In this case, the mild-mannered suburbanites are Matt (Jamie Foxx) and Emily (Cameron Diaz), raising their adolescent kids Alice (McKenna Roberts) and Leo (Rylan Jackson) 15 years after fleeing their jobs as CIA operatives when they were presumed dead during a mission.
Den of Thieves: Pantera, Better Man, The Last Showgirl
Better Man ***1/2
Count me all-in on the trend—after the “Pharrell-as-LEGO” documentary Piece by Piece and this oddball endeavor—of bypassing the Walk Hard musical biopic clichés through imaginative representation of the central figure.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Porcelain War
Porcelain War **1/2
It’s not surprising that being caught in a war zone should yield a tangle of thoughts and ideas, but that tangle manifests itself in a documentary by directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev that never finds a specific focus. At the outset, we meet Leontyev and his personal/artistic partner Anya Stasenko, as well as their friend and fellow artist Andrey Stefanov as they navigate living through the Russian assault on Ukraine, specifically their home city of Kharkiv.
