Joey Vee’s Moo-Vees – “Country Strong” Comic Strip
COUNTRY STRONG is now playing! Synopsis: Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all. Here is the comic, courtesy of […]
Movie Review: “Country Strong” Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund
The scene, as I envision it, is a cold December night in 2009. Gwyneth Paltrow, having just put a fussy Apple down for the night, is curling up on the couch with an advance DVD of Crazy Heart; the sort of privilege provided by movie studios to the famous and entitled. Even then, Jeff Bridges’ […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Country Strong
Country Strong is a mess of a film with a horrendous script that goes nowhere, has no character depth, and feels like elaborate audition tapes for Paltrow and Meester’s potential music careers. The film follows Kelly Canter, a country music superstar, who is on the road to recovery in rehab when she is checked out […]
Country Strong
Let me first start by saying that I do not like country music. So this will review will not include me critiqueing the music in the film which in actuality will play a large role in whether you enjoy the movie or not. It is just not my style. As a result, I went into […]
This Weekend in Box Office History – “Season of the Witch”, “Country Strong”
This week only gets two wide releases in Country Strong and Season of the Witch. Can Nicholas Cage overcome the singing of Gwyneth Paltrow? My money is on Country Strong blowing it out of the water, but I have been wrong before. The real question I present you with today is if this weekend will […]
Spotlight of the Week – Leighton Meester
This week is a monumental week. It will mark the first time I have seen Leighton Meester in anything that film being Counrty Strong. She actually was in Date Night which I saw, but I had no idea she was in that nor do I remember her being in it. The only thing I really […]
“Country Strong” Opens January 7! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
COUNTRY STRONG OPENS JANUARY 7 NATIONWIDE. Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old […]
Enter the COUNTRY STRONG Contest and Win $500 Cash!
Want to win $500? If you have a good voice, you might just be able to. In honor of the new film COUNTRY STRONG, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, a singing contest is going to take place on Saturday, December 4th. The competition will be held at the Bass Pro Shop in St. Charles […]
Weekly Gleek Report: The Substitute w/ Guest Star Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow joined the Glee cast this week as Ms. Holly Holliday, the substitute teacher. The turn of events that brings Ms. Holliday into William McKinley High involves a bizarre strain of “monkey flu” that not only strikes Mr. Schue, but also Principal Figgins. The absurdity of this plot device, which is established within the […]
