August 20th, 2008 12:00 AM
Movie Review: The Rocker - 2 stars out of 5
"Sweet" and "sentimental" and "rock 'n' roll" aren't meant to be used in the same sentence. But that's the road the mildly amusing comedy The Rocker travels.
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August 21st, 2008 12:00 AM
South Park to Hamlet 2 writer Pam Brady is pushing the boundries of the R-rated comedy
Perhaps it's the brooding, the indecision, the callous way he treats poor Ophelia. But that Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is just begging to have a few holes punched in him. And not just by Laertes.
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August 21st, 2008 12:02 AM
Movie Review: 'Hamlet 2' - 3 stars out of 5
Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland's Opus, all "great" movies about "great" teachers inspiring their students to achieve great things -- all movies referenced lovingly by Steve Coogan's "inspiring" teacher in Hamlet 2. All are slandered mercilessly in this demented profanity of a comedy from South Park writer Pam Brady.
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August 21st, 2008 12:00 AM
Movie Review: Longshots - 2 stars out of 5
The Longshots is a certifiable crowd pleaser, an agreeable variation on the kid sports movie formula whose family-friendly messages outweigh its corny over familiarity.
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August 21st, 2008 12:00 AM
Movie Review: Frozen River - 5 stars out of 5
It's a face that shows not just the years, but the miles. And when Ray Eddy quietly weeps in the opening moments of Frozen River, the tears follow aged lines formed by worry, poverty and cigarettes.
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August 21st, 2008 12:00 AM
Movie Review: Kabluey - 5 stars out of 5
The central image of Kabluey is a massive, pointless, impractical foam-rubber mascot suit, the logo for a failing Internet company, a logo that looks suspiciously like the old "AOL man."
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August 21st, 2008 12:00 AM
Movie Review: Elegy - 3 stars out of 5
Movie adaptations of the works of famous authors can serve as a form of literary criticism. That's not the to say that one can fairly judge the writing of a Philip Roth, based on the movies that have been made from his books. But boiling down the books to their most basic, and seeing on screen the lecherous (and now old) men the old semi-autobiographical novelist paired with the cinema's reigning beauties can make the guy, his sexual obsessions and his recent writing seem ridiculous.
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August 18th, 2008 10:40 AM
Theater review: 'Lucy Live! at the Parliament House'
What does it take to be a gay icon? Well, according to the program for Lucy Live! at the Parliament House, it helps to be "fierce, ferocious and fabulous."
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August 20th, 2008 12:00 AM
They break bread, then jam
Leon Pollard isn't a musician and didn't even buy an instrument until after he signed up for rock fantasy camp.
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August 15th, 2008 03:38 AM
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - 3 stars out of 5
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