Overly exaggerated, but still tolerable. I thought I couldn’t handle another Clooney “comedy”, but this short story isn’t that bad. Catherine Zeta-Jones-Douglas is as charming as ever, though cunning underneath it. Mildly entertaining if you don’t like the Coen brothers’ work, and very entertaining if you do like them. I’m of the first catagory.6½.
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Total: 416 out of 131 votes > Average is: 3.176
Back to just the cases. While they’re still inventive and interesting, it’s too bad the character development is being put on the backburner, again.
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Total: 410 out of 128 votes > Average is: 3.203
Scary Movie 3 (opens here 18 Dec) blasted its way into the box office with a frightning high number, $49.7 million. Blasting the opening score of the previous Scary Movies, it seems dropping the Wayans Brother wasn’t a bad idea after all. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre drops a 50% income, getting in some $14.7 million. Radio (opens here 18 Mar) received good reviews for Cuba Gooding Jr. but opens small for now, $14 million.
Unmistakenly the same team behind her previous albums, the recognizable fast pace – short pace verses sung with a whispery voice is still on every song, but somehow, it seems she has grown up and gone a little bit more boring this time around. With only 10 songs to be found, only less than half of it has a nice sing-a-long rhythm. The others have a slow despressing mood hovering it. Definitely not worth your money.
I’m sure Amy wouldn’t like it, but the comparison had to be made – using Misfit as her debut single, someone had to say it. Avril Lavigne. But listening the whole album, you’ll have to adjust the comparison. It’s more like a church-going Avril, both content and style. A bit more poppy, a bit less rocky. A few ballad like songs mixed inbetween, and you have yourself an album that’s not too catchy, but it’s not too boring either. A good build-up with nice vocals is to be heard in Going out of my Mind, and it would be nice if the whole album had this quality. Instead you get a whiny depressing Happy Now and a few more choir background styled songs. Vocally, this album isn’t that challening either, keeping all the tones somewhere in the middle. As a whole album, this reflects, it’s mediocre.
Yupz, had to buy a new pair of gloves again, because it’s getting really cold. The problem is that I lose the right hand one every year. So even if I buy the same color every year, it won’t help. After so many years, you’d hope the left-glove-curse would be over, but I guess only time will tell.
With a lot of starpower (Rebecca DeMornay, Vanessa Williams, Kelly Hu) guesting on the season opener, you certainly don’t get a lot of content. All the characters are empty, including the show’s regulars. The story is too simplistic and the dialogue is stiff. If they try this all season long, they’ll probably end up in NBC’s trash bin.
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Total: 906 out of 251 votes > Average is: 3.610
Critically acclaimed by some 90% of the big name reviewers, yet I left the movie theatre with some mixed feelings. Clint Eastwood obviously pushed the actors to give him the best performances possible, but with the story and the drama going on, it still feels like something vital is missing. The movies also feels too long (and probably is, clocking in over 2 hours), and even the end seems to be made to put us off balance. The first half is a well executed exploratory piece of drama, while the second seems somewhat predictable. Eastwood is able to get the atmosphere continuously on a level where you keep your eyebrows raised worryingly throughout the movie though. Also, Sean Penn is on an Oscar performance level here. It’s difficult to catagorise this movie, but it’s definitely not standard Hollywood, so if you’re into that, by all means, go see it.7.
As you’ve noticed, old TV shows turn up on the silver screen, but have you noticed a lot of movie producers and directors turn to TV ?
Jerry Bruckheimer of course, made the most notable jump, with some NINE (!!!!) TV shows running CONCURRENTLY this season, while keeping busy being successful in the movie bizz.
The rest:
Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro, Vertical Limit) is doing 10-8: Officers on Duty (yeah, though the earlier cop TV shows list was long, I didn’t include all of’m).
Danny DeVito combines his powers with Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black I & II) on Karen Sisco.
Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, and the upcoming Ocean’s Twelve) does K Street.
Russel Mulcahy (Highlander I & II) does Bruckheimer newest, Skin.
Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies, Arlington Road) also helps Bruckheimer a hand on Cold Case.
Phillip Noyce (Sliver, The Saint, Clear and Present Danger) is developing the series premiere of Tru Calling, starring Eliza Dushku.
And of course, I didn’t catch them all, there are some more to be found. Can you ?
Look out for some more old TV series going silver. Next year, Starsky & Hutch will turn comedy, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. But after that, The Six Million Dollar Man, will be changed to a rapid fire laugh machine too. Jim Carrey just signed the starring and developing/producing role on this project. Expect it in 2005.
Yupz, the Dutch team (most notably from the University of Delft) won this year’s World Solar Challenge in Australia. The vehicle named Nuna II finished the 3010 km race in under 31 hours. That means it’s also a world record. Average speed is about 97 km/h (almost my running speed).
So, can y’all say it with me ? “WE BEAT EM AI TEE !!!” (MIT finished third)
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Total: 901 out of 249 votes > Average is: 3.618
