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...Spirit Awards, which honor films that cost less than $20 million and are primarily financed outside the studio system, are supposed to be too cool for star worship. But when the new James Bond (Daniel Craig) appeared in the tent, nominated for his performance in Infamous - a movie few people saw and even fewer recognized - a collective inhale of breath was audible...
...Founders, in fact, trace their desire to go into space to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon in 1969. P.J. King was a kid, living in western Ireland, admiring the sky one night when his older brother started pointing out Orion and the constellations. "I said that's cool. We should go there. And my big brother says, you can't go there! I was angry and yelled, 'But I saw it on TV! They went to the moon'." Now 38 and living in Dublin, he laughs at the memory, but feels bad about not using his degree...
Whatever happened to the cool kid who sat in the back of high school honors chem and snickered because he was smarter than the teacher?He got his Ph.D. from Harvard, abandoned academia for the film industry, and is now poised to appear in a movie theater near you.Introducing Randy Olson, a 1984 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour...
...first glance, X Plastaz seems to be a fairly typical hip hop group: the dreads, the slouch, the too-cool-for-school chin tilt.But when lead rapper Godson Rutta (aka Gsann) starts to talk about his music, his eyes light up with the genuine enthusiasm of a boy at a little league game and his excitement is such that he can barely stay on the edge of his seat—that’s when you first know that X Plastaz is not just another Wu Tang wannabe. For starters, Gsann and his crew—his brother Nelson...
...without the originality or heartfelt verses to back up its muscle-bound choruses. The album is not entirely a lost cause. The latter tracks offer more depth than the dry and predictable first half. A few nuanced production details earn the band some style points, like the cool Rhodes solo conclusion to “Begin Again from the Beginning” and the soulful cello in “From the Last, Last Call.” Unfortunately, these elements are few and far between and the band’s alternative songwriting equation seems to have stagnated after...