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Although a lot of effort was put into Pat McGee Band’s latest, and they are struggling for much deserved acclaim, From the Wood, McGee’s self-produced debut, is a much better investment
...rebuttal to your statement about undeserved post-summer doldrums acclaim, I present to you Entertainment Weekly’s largely respectable critic Lisa Schwarzbaum and her take on last year’s rigid, bland-as-glue Seabiscuit: “A rare pedigreed entrant in a summer of mules.” It seems many critics (79 percent of them, according to rottentomatoes.com) are not as capable as you think of keeping their cool after a summer of roasted, bloated turkeys...
...Matheson ’89, a post-doctoral student on Kirshner’s team, was in awe of the transition from relative obscurity to popular acclaim. “All of a sudden we’re working on the stuff that everybody talks about,” he says...
...Gibson has snorted his derision over the two earlier Jesus films that have earned the most sustained critical acclaim. Asked a year ago by TIME correspondent Jeff Israeli for an analysis Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Vangelo secundo Matteo," (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) he faked a big yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power...
...before it picked up seven Goya awards in February; the film starts its Europewide run in April, but has already taken in over €4 million in Spain. Indie Circle also bought Osama - the award-winning debut from Afghan director Siddiq Barmak, which has just been released to critical acclaim and grossed €210,000 in its first three weeks. "So far, so good," says Mercier. "They've done as well as we expected." Previously, the closest Europe got to a Continentwide network was London-based PolyGram, a film studio that built distribution operations in all the major European territories...