Argue all you want, but there’s absolutely no denying that George Harrison is the coolest of The Beatles. John and Paul fought it out for best songwriter while George slid into effortless cool, taking it easy and releasing records as and when he pleased.
How cool was George? He faced everything with a shrug. The Quiet Beatle wrote in his diary in ’69: “Got up went to Twickenham rehearsed until lunchtime — left the Beatles — went home, and in the evening did King of Fuh at Trident studio, had chips later.”
And so, with Martin Scorsese’s documentary ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World’ getting everyone talking about George, let us look at his best music… okay?
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The weekend box office could have gone one of three ways this week – with two new films competing for Shutter Island‘s title.
First there was Cop Out, a film starring the funny one from 30 Rock and the bald one from Moonlighting, directed by the man who was too fat to fit into an airport or something. Then there was The Crazies which, if the trailer is any indication, is a single two-hour shot of a girl being pushed through a threshing machine in slow motion. Could either of these have the heft to topple Shutter Island from its spot at the top of the weekend box office?
No, no they couldn’t. This must mean that people prefer Martin Scorsese to hacky buddy cop films and brainless horror remakes. Who knew?
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Psychosis, horror and conspiracy are rife in this Martin Scorsese thriller, where U.S. Marshalls Teddy Daniels (Leonardo Di Caprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) find themselves investigating an escape from an institute for the criminally insane.
Something unnatural is happening in the Massachusetts prison, a literal fortress in the coastal wilderness. The prisoners whisper of spirits and a 67th prisoner, though there are cells for only 66.
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