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...wage a defense against the million-man army of the Persian monarch Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro, from Lost). The oracle waffles, but Leonidas, saying he's just going out for a stroll with his private guards, leaves his wife Gorgo (The Brothers Grimm's Lena Headey) and leads his loyal band to their desperate and storied destiny. He might have triumphed, if the homunculus Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan, from British TV) had not betrayed the Greeks and told Xerxes their strategy...
Pretend you don’t know what “conflict of interest” means: So what if your managing editor is also the front-man of the band you prominently profile in your music section? It doesn’t mean you can’t still ask hard-hitting questions like, “What drives you to put out an industry level production while handling the rigors of the number one university in the country...
...dictates that it can’t evoke the same sense of wonder that its predecessor did. The disc’s sound is still recognizably Arcade Fire-esque, though this time around, their familiar melancholy is even deeper. Perhaps it’s precisely because the band has forsaken the world they imagined on “Funeral” for the real one. “Funeral” was a sensation lauded by critics, fans, and fellow musicians—including initials twins David Bowie and David Byrne—alike. Arcade Fire could have easily slipped...
...like Sofia Coppola’s movies, then you probably have a similar taste for one of her favorite bands, Air. Three years since the release of their masterpiece “Talkie Walkie,” the French duo have returned with “Pocket Symphony” and a fresh supply of their patented haute-electronica. Their sound combines rigorous piano, string, and synth melodies with a variety of eclectic instrumentals, plus vocals by both group members, Nicholas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. In “Pocket Sympony,” Air continues...
...loincloth, and I just saw him on the news with Angelina last night. It becomes pop culture dressing itself up as a movie.”According to Snyder, Butler’s enthusiasm also helped him get cast as Leonidas, the Spartan king who leads a band of 300 men to fight a Persian force of a million. When Butler and Snyder first met in a coffee shop on Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard to discuss the script, Butler came with his character already prepared.“When he showed up, he stomped around the coffee...