Word: dubs
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...story is what Variety would dub “one of those things.” Fittingly enough, in a film about high-tech thievery, the main plot elements themselves appear to have been stolen from Mission Impossible 2. Lai is Mac, the leader of the Skyline Cruisers, a gang of high-tech thieves with outrageously inventive gimmicks at their disposal. When the Cruisers undertake a “Mission Noble” to rescue a cure for cancer from the hands of evil, they run into unexpected obstacles, including a former Cruiser who betrayed...
...Some will start off their Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards, though this event is starting to lose some steam. Its problem is the overwhelming success of its key protagonists. Like musicians who dub themselves "alternative," it's hard to be truly independent these days. Those pesky big corporations keep distributing the most promising films. Eleven years ago Steven Soderbergh was a young hopeful touting his breakthrough "sex, lies and videotape." Now he has two films in competition for Best Picture. It's not that he's sold out. Far from it. It's that the studios have become savvier...
This speech was a true redemption of Bush's horrible inaugural address, during which even former-President Bush, whom the press has ludicrously decided to dub "poppy," appeared to nod off every few seconds when he wasn't being woken up by applause lines like "Thank you, and God bless America...
...Above the pounding music, one heard snatches of Grammy-related conversation - like shards from a dub mix of one of those party-line phone calls popular in the '80s. About Steely Dan: "I thought those guys were dead, man...." About Christina Aguilera: "Great abs, bad hair..." About award co-presenter Val Kilmer: "What was he NOT doing with Robbie Robertson...? Like, why was he even there...
Mixing classic rock sounds with an ever-present Celtic hook, the Young Dub's fourth album, Red, does kick some serious booty. In a music industry where the word "eclectic" is becoming re-defined as the alternate use of the words "baby" and "ain't," the Young Dubs not only (gasp!) play their own instruments, but prove just what it should mean to be eclectic as they alternate from laid-back chill rock like the title track to the get-down-in-the-"jig pit" (the Dubs' version of a mosh pit) of "What Do You Want From...