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...Snow Angels is built on the same yearnings and desperation, the same threat of eventual violence; but, happily, it has an emotional density that trumps its familiarity. Winter is approaching in a small town where the high school band teacher (a brief role played with curt comic brio by Tom Noonan) shouts challenges at the students: "Do you have a sledgehammer in your heart? Are you ready to be my sledgehammer?" The hammers of hell beat in the hearts of these frosty folk; for Snow Angels, like a bunch of other films set in cold climates (The Ice Storm...
...Those Girls” gained the Midland, Ontario trio loads of attention in the blogosphere, and tours with indie heavyweights Hot Chip and Peter, Björn and John have helped them establish a pretty sizeable fan base for such a young band. Their sophomore effort and first full album, “Red, Yellow & Blue,” is a meatier work than its predecessor, not only in length (it’s more than 20 minutes longer) but in feel as well. While angular guitar riffs over precise drumming and a pulsing bass still make up a majority...
DIED Cancer took the eyesight of Grammy-nominated rocker Jeff Healey before he turned 1. So at 3 he started playing the guitar on his lap, a style that became his trademark. As a teen, he gigged in Toronto clubs before starting his best-known group, the Jeff Healey Band. The blues-rock trio, who got a boost from their role in the Patrick Swayze film Road House, made it big with the achy, affecting 1989 hit Angel Eyes. On the side, Healey played jazz and deejayed a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio show drawing on his collection...
...book. In the film’s best scene, Penelope devises a scheme to figure out which instrument Max plays but will not reveal. The montage of Max playing a series of instruments while badly singing “You Are My Sunshine” with a full backup band is priceless. Penelope, too, finds Max endearing and reveals herself to him, but runs away to the big city once she realizes he’s a spy. Her first stop in freedom is a pub where she meets Annie, a feisty, leather-clad, Vespa riding Reese Witherspoon (who also...
...reversal that free speech advocates called a pivotal victory for First Amendment rights, the federal judge who shuttered the muckraking website Wikileaks last month ruled Friday that it could reclaim its Web address in the United States. The decision, however, raises another question: did a band of tech-savvy Internet mavericks manage to outmaneuver...