Tonight's guests are
Tom Cruise on The Daily Show and
Chrissie Hynde on The Colbert Report.
Tom Cruise is on to promote his new scifi blockbuster? Edge of Tomorrow.
An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy.
IMDB has it rated at 8.1, Rotten Tomatoes has it at
88%.
Edge Of Tomorrow, Doug Liman’s click-clacky sci-fi take on Groundhog Day, stars Tom Cruise as a smarmy press flack who get stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion. An entertaining, effects-driven black comedy, with shades of Starship Troopers in its depiction of warfare as a futuristic turkey shoot, the movie is distinguished more by how fluidly it handles its high-concept premise than where it takes it.
Edge Of Tomorrow’s main attraction is this near-seamless blend of star, structure, and setup. Its deft pacing, canny design, and sense of humor make it easy to overlook the fact that it mostly glosses over the implications of its time-loop premise. Consistency is a rare virtue for a big-budget tentpole movie; remarkably, the movie’s ending (which diverges from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s source novel, All You Need Is Kill) manages to preserve a sense of integrity while delivering the requisite audience satisfaction.
A.V. Club
It sounds interesting enough, I will probably wait for the DVD to see it.
Chrissie Hynde is on to discuss her new album Stockholm.
You can listen to the album for free at theguardian.com.
According to Chrissie Hynde's press release, Stockholm has a kind of Abba-meets-John Lennon vibe. That may seem like the kind of gobbledegook statement you'd expect from an artist going solo but at least it kind of hints at the influence of producer Bjorn Yttling and guest presence of, uh, Neil Young. More than anything, though, Stockholm just sounds like a tenth Pretenders album, and there’s little wrong with that.
theartsdesk.com
I have not had a chance to listen to the new album yet, but I have always loved the Pretenders. There are so many amazing songs to chose from, but my favorite would have to be My City Was Gone
The extended interview with Gigi Ibrahim is up.
Schedule For Next Week
THE DAILY SHOW
Mo 6/9: Philip K. Howard
Tu 6/10: Sebastian Junger
We 6/11: Sen. Charles Schumer
Th 6/12: Christopher Walken
THE COLBERT REPORT
Mo 6/9: Esther Perel
Tu 6/10: John Waters
We 6/11: Rob Rhinehart
Th 6/12: James Webb
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