Welcome to Part II of DRIVEN’s exclusive series of one-on-one chats with the people who helped bring Watchmen to cinematic life.Yesterday: Jeffrey Dean Morgan AKA The Comedian. Wednesday:Watchmen director Zack Snyder. Thursday: a rare interview with Billy Crudup, AKA Dr. Manhattan. Friday: a surprise post.Plus: a chance for Watchmen fans to win a piece of collectible Watchmen swag (see the end of this post).
In Watchmen, the Stockholm-born and Toronto-raised Malin Akerman portrays Laurie Juspeczyk and her retired superheroine alter-ego, Silk Spectre II. After the jump, you’ll find out Akerman’s takes on the film, the Watchmen graphic novel, and the tender side of superheroics.
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In a event that sits at a nexus between two areas of concern here at DRIVENmag.com (laptop theft and Facebook addiction), the admittedly amusing news has surfaced, in an Associated Press report, that a man has been arrested in Brandenton, Florida, for stealing a laptop from a fellow Starbucks patron, because the thief really wanted to check Facebook. Read More
U2’s first new effort in more than four years leaves the impression that it could have worked better as two distinct EPs. Still, the good news is that it deftly one-ups the band’s previous nought-era albums. Just how good are these ‘EP’s, though?
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The titles of both this album and its killer opening track, “This Tornado Loves You,” are fitting. Neko Case is a genuine force of nature, a free spirit who has seamlessly morphed over the past dozen years from punk rock go-go dancing drummer (Maow) to musically adventurous songstress. On her sixth solo album, she has moved well beyond the “noir country diva” label and into a sound that defies genre pigeonholing.
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