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...Kind Rewind” dissolves into chuckles.With “Be Kind Rewind,” Gondry’s intentions are clear. Already well established as a cult director, this seems to be his attempt to set sail for deeper, more commercial waters with a box-office draw like Black in his pocket. Whether trading the strength of a work with thematic and stylistic unity for the satisfaction of a blockbuster may pay off, it’s difficult to relish a Gondry film from Gondry that fails to challenge its viewers.—Reviewer Ryan J. Meehan...
...that on-point, if not as (respectively) terrifying or revolutionary. Even with the lovely Sting-supplied acoustics of “Street Law” and “For My Soldiers,” the best cut on the album is “My Box Chevy.” A rare triumph of synth over sample, “My Box Chevy” is a low-key anthem to a Caprice bought “from an old white couple.” It transcends the low-budget production and the superficially played-out lyrics to become...
...involve classified information—and she’s still not entirely sure what the consequences of her research really were. “We had two computers under the desk and just one screen,” McCulla says. “There was a little box with a switch on it and hundreds of times a day, we’d push the switch and it’d flip from one computer to the other. We’d have two separate email accounts and two separate Word documents. There was a pretty clear delineation between...
...James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad, the production has already sold out its six-week engagement. But as far as what the production may mean for minority actors, Lester says, “To cast James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad is not political, it’s big box office.”“It’s really interesting that they are doing the show with an all-black cast, since race isn’t one of the forefront issues,” Johnson, a co-director of the Harvard production...
...acoustic guitar, the production values of older albums were quite different. Most of Darnielle’s back catalog finds him alone, strumming his guitar furiously, his voice passionate and raw. The tracks were frequently accompanied by an overwhelming low-fidelity hiss, courtesy of the cheap Panasonic boom box with which Darnielle recorded for years. This is not to say that the aesthetic change is an abrupt one; Darnielle’s conversion from lo-fi god to studio craftsman began with 2002’s “Tallahassee,” which dispatched with the distinctive fuzz...