The Useless Critic 2.0

Last Wednesday I turned 27—happy birthday to moi! I'd like to believe that Sky Ferreira was aware of that, because on the same day, she released a cover of the Commodores' 1977 classic " Easy ." It is featured on the soundtrack to Edgar Wright's action movie Baby Driver , in which Ferreira plays the mother of lead character Baby (Ansel Elgort). I missed her voice so bad. Sadly, there's still no word of a release date for  Masochism , the long-awaited follow-up to her iconic debut album Night Time, My Time . In the meantime, you can hear Ferreira's vocals on The Jesus and Mary Chain's " Black and Blues ," off of their latest album Damage and Joy . She is also set to appear on Showtime's revival of  Twin Peaks , which debuted last month.

Epic is a good word to describe last night's special midnight screening of Scott Pilgrim vs The World. You want to know why? Here's who came to the screening. Half of these people stayed for the Q&A after: Anna Kendrick Aubrey Plaza Bill Pope (director of photography) Brandon Routh Brie Larson Bryan Lee O'Malley (author of the Scott Pilgrim series) Edgar Wright (director) Johnny Simmons Mae Whitman Mark Webber Mary Elizabeth Winstead Satya Bhaba So yeah, it was pretty awesome right? It was held at the New Beverly Cinema, probably my new favorite theatre in Los Angeles now. This may or may not have to do with the fact that before each movie (or at least each screening I've been to here), they show trailers of old films. Edgar Wright chose 4 of the most awesome movie trailers in the history of film to show before the screening: Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros, Street Fighter, and The Wizard. Yes, the latter starring Jenny Lewis, but I was freaking out more at ...