5/4/2008
Second season of the new
The DVD set of Doctor Who ? The Complete Second Series rewards viewers who have been continually watching the show on television or DVD. It starts things off with a Christmas special called "The Christmas Invasion," which has the main character, Rose (Billie Piper), adjusting to the new appearance...
5/4/2008
The film that won Daniel Day-Lewis a second Oscar.
There Will Be Blood is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, and one almost wishes director and screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson had kept the title for his movie, as it centers on an ambitious, greedy oilman named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis). The lengths to which Plainview's...
5/3/2008
Little Maestros' third album, Postcards from My Mind, sets itself apart from other children's CDs in having all its tracks connected together in a story line. The story here is about a 5-year-old girl named Sparkle and her talking stuffed animal, Scratch, imagining themselves on vacation at...
5/3/2008
Electronica artist Moby returns with an album called Last Night, a title that can be interpreted as either being nostalgic or with a sense of finality. In some ways, the album's songs contain a mix of both nostalgia and completion. Moby has said that with Last Night, he tried "to take 25 years of...
5/3/2008
Martial arts film stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li fight together--and each other--for the first time on-screen.
The Forbidden Kingdom focuses on Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano, who played Jack's son, Elliot, on Will & Grace), a white, American teenager who loves Chinese martial arts films. One night, some bullies force Jason to get them inside a store run by an elderly Chinese man (Jackie Chan), who...
4/29/2008
Honeydripper is the soundtrack to the 2007 film of the same name, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie takes place in rural Alabama in 1950, when Jim Crow still rules the South and rock and roll is born out of the blues and gospel music. The early beginnings of rock can be heard in songs...
4/28/2008
A TV show from the mid-1990s about a Canadian Mountie and a Chicago cop who team up to solve cases.
The television series, Due South, centers around a polite, courteous and naive Mountie named Benton Fraser (Paul Gross), who originally comes to Chicago on the trail of his father's killers, accompanied by his half-wolf Diefenbaker. In Chicago, he teams up with brash, streetwise Detective Ray...
4/24/2008
Your average album is essentially made of two components...music and lyrics. When it comes to the "music" part, Killohead, the new album by RED i CLAN, isn't bad. It's like a blend of drum beats, guitars and electronica synths that often gives one an urge to groove...as on the opener, "Jack the...
4/24/2008
Reliving childhood.
From its title to the group of teenagers pictured on its cover, M83's album, Saturdays=Youth, is all about what it felt like to be young... or to be specific, what it felt like to be young in the ‘80s. Anthony Gonzales, who is M83, wanted the album to evoke what it felt like to be a teenager "mixed...
4/24/2008
Kate Schutt's jazz album, No Love Lost, is ironically full of love. From love for a departed caregiver and nurse in "Mary," to unrequited love in "Peter Please," to a sensual interpretation in her cover of Sheila E.'s "Glamorous Life," Schutt sings about so many different types of love that hardly...
