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Kinsey is more or less a traditional bio flick, fraught with melodramatic dialectics and plot points that you will see coming a mile away; however, Condon’s style keeps getting in the way of all that. Though working with conventional Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling techniques, Condon manages to bring an artistic sensibility to enervated Hollywood clich?...
...video games art? Nobody knows yet, but the cool thing is, we're the ones who get to decide. Should games be like Hollywood? Or like interactive novels? Or maybe the NBA is the model? China already sponsors a national video-gaming team, and ESPN is covering the launch of Halo 2. So grab a joystick, sink back into the couch, and get in on Level 1. I promise, nobody has to know. Just keep some tissues handy...
Acclaimed by the New York Times as “absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful,” Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’s “Matt and Ben” follows the lives of Hollywood icons Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, pre-Tinseltown. The two must decide whether to pass off the script for “Good Will Hunting” as their own, after it falls from the ceiling. This tongue-in-cheek play is a two-woman show, and is not to miss. Tickets $25 general; $15 undergraduates. Through...
...years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx’s almost...
When I first heard about The O.C.—the surprise hit tween drama on Fox that began its second season yesterday—I was shocked and a little angry. Once again, Hollywood had taken a ridiculous concept and ran with it, at the expense of everyone from Southern California like myself. This trend began with Orange County, the hopelessly terrible movie with Jack Black and Forrest Gump’s kid, and now, I feared, this would become a long-running fad. Having grown up in Orange County—specifically Irvine, a particularly plastic suburb?...