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...camera. You don’t kill dogs (although murdering people is fine) and you don’t inflict violence or cruelty on children. Frailty obliterates that last boundary in spades as longtime studio actor Bill Paxton moves behind the camera in his feature-film directorial debut...
Though Frailty is Paxton’s debut, he has experienced vicarious tutelage under the likes of director James Cameron and ventures on a polar opposite from his frequent employers. Where Cameron frequently descends into overblown melodrama and explicit sentimentality, Paxton exhibits an oddly compelling restraint. He pulls fewer emotional punches than might be expected in this, a tale of questionable morality, and leaves almost all the gore offscreen. Using sounds suggestive of the violence that the father inflicts on his demons, the camera pans to the reaction shots of his children, and in those moments, the images truly chill...
...Harcourt’s full-length debut album, Here Be Monsters, is stunning. It’s the best alternative-pop release of the year so far, and although this album is too left-field to make a big mark on the commercial charts, for those who discover it, it will surely remain a favorite for years. Simple, emotional piano ballads, with a depth of feeling that is palpable, seem to flow naturally from the pen of this 23-year-old British ex-chef. He’s like a more emotional version of David Gray and the whole...
...Baldwins are almost too careful not to miss a single base in their meandering debut, but the good news is that they’re just funky and oddball enough to make it hang together. Wish we could say the same about their lesser relatives Steven, Alec...
...TRIUMPH The put-down pup of Late Night with Conan O'Brien fame finds plenty to insult in his musical debut album, due this fall...