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(06/21/01 4:00am)
The Fast and the Furious is about cars. Fast cars. Big cars. Cars that go "vroooommm, vroooommm." With all the patience and thoughtfulness of a Limp Bitzkit video, seeing The Fast and the Furious will have you employing other, more fun f-words as you exit the theater. The film is uneven, dull and utterly cliched.
(06/14/01 4:00am)
In the premiere of HBO's praiseworthy new series Six Feet Under, Nate Fisher (Peter Krause) flashes back to the first time he saw his mortician father exhuming a corpse. The five-year-old child stares at his father--and the corpse--with eyes as big as saucers. The father (a superb Richard Jenkins) explains to his son what he is doing, and when the explanation fails to placate the child's expression, the father offers young Nate an industrial strength rubber glove and says, "You can touch him if you wear one of these." Nate flees.
(06/07/01 4:00am)
Is your sitcom ready for greener pastures? Has the show "Jumped the Shark?"
(06/07/01 4:00am)
Rufus Wainwright debuted in 1998 and received widespread critical praise from mainstream magazines to indie-minded fringe publications. Critics lavished the young Canadian star with praise for his mastery of the piano, Stradivarius-like voice, classical-music choruses and lyrics that gracefully shifted from heart-wrenchingly dramatic to darkly comedic. On his new album, Poses, Wainwright proves that his first try was no fluke--the sophomore effort is anything but sophomoric.
(05/31/01 4:00am)
What can you say about The Goo Goo Dolls? The band, which rivals Creed for the distinction of "worst spawn of the Grunge movement," has achieved a new musical low--an entire album of poorly remixed B-sides that likely has Kurt Cobain committing suicide all over again.
(05/24/01 4:00am)
When it comes to alcohol, North Carolina's laws and policies read like they were authored by a drunk.
(05/24/01 4:00am)
Pearl Harbor wants to be an important historical drama. It also wants to be a fun summer action movie. It fails at both, coming across as a mix between Titanic and Armageddon. Like those films, Pearl Harbor will make millions of dollars and shatter some box office records.
(05/24/01 4:00am)
If nothing else, the revival of Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns confirms that Tom Selleck possesses an adroit sense of comedic timing that can enable a play--even a play as tired as this one--to soar. Murray Burns (Selleck) is a societal drop-out. Grown tired of his position as head writer for a children's television series, Burns goes J.D. Salinger, without the pompousness. He lives with his adopted nephew Nick (Nicolas King) in a New York City apartment. Murray does not work, celebrates his own holidays, and lives as a humorous hermit who can wisecrack on a moment's notice.
(05/17/01 7:00am)
Recipe for a soundtrack: Take one part Three Dog Night, add a cover of a Bob Dylan or Paul Simon song done by a new, "edgy" artist, mix with a convoluted cut of rap and toss in half-a-dozen recent single B-sides. Then find a film or television series to match your soundtrack with. Nine times out of ten, soundtracks suck.
(05/17/01 4:00am)
A dog is a man's best friend. They fetch our slippers, come when called, obey our commands and sometimes, it seems, read our moods from our scent and slouch. And we pay dogs back for it--with trips to the woods for hunting and trips to the groomer for a pedicure. Dogs and man have become close. So close, in fact, that in the sublime Amores Perros the tragic, lovesick characters begin meet their canine equivalents.
(04/20/01 4:00am)
Everyone makes mistakes, especially writers and critics. Sometimes we get so high on our soapboxes (or so far past our deadlines) that we construct really poor sentences, make comparisons that don't make sense or spout off rhetoric that would make Al Sharpton look plain-spoken. It happens. Hell, we already regret that Al Sharpton joke.
(04/13/01 4:00am)
Now that Survivor: Australian Outback is down to five contestants, producer Mark Burnett is already preparing for the third season of the show. But before he can start recruiting sexy coeds, he has to pick a destination. The latest Internet rumor is that Burnett wants to film the next season in Israel. That might be a myth, but we offer our list of locations that would make for an interesting third season.
(04/12/01 4:00am)
Let me quickly state that I am a Greek Orthodox Christian, currently fasting for Easter and going to church this Sunday to celebrate the resurrection. That is not to boast, but I feel I need to make some kind of disclaimer like that before I am attacked by fellow Christians for what I am about to say: The Jesus fish thing must end.
(04/05/01 4:00am)
The Bush White House's foreign policy contingent is a lot like a rag-tag group of comic superheros. Thanks to W., they even have nicknames!
(03/30/01 5:00am)
ARAMARK may be coming to town. But before we let that happen, Recess decided to bring ourselves to ARAMARK first. If Duke students are going to be subjected to the megacorp-or reject it-we want the community to have a fair assessment of what ARAMARK's product is like. As the old saying goes, you can't knock it 'till you've tried it. And now we have tried it-all of it.
(03/07/01 5:00am)
It is time we gave our ancient senators a little more respect.
(03/02/01 5:00am)
Jesus freaks like having fun, too. To help the cause, a new theme park called the Holy Land Experience has arrived in Orlando, Florida.
(02/23/01 5:00am)
The life of Reinaldo Arenas, a gifted Cuban writer and poet, is captured brilliantly in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls. Based on a posthumous autobiography, the story recounts Arenas' journey from sex-crazed soldier during the rise of Castro to his imprisonment for being a political dissident and homosexual, followed by his exile during the Mariel boatlift in 1980 and eventual suicide in 1990.
(02/16/01 5:00am)
Certainly, 2000 was no 1999. Last year, a dozen films deserved a crack at Best Picture, and it was hard for critics to agree on their top ten lists. Still, 2000 was not such a bad year that Gladiator, Erin Brockovich and Chocolat deserved Best Picture nominations.
(02/07/01 5:00am)
I settled into my chair to watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports. The show is typical CNN fare-the news with a mildly liberal twist, lots of ominous theme music and clips of people standing in front of the White House. Then, it happened.