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...Park.) His first outside flight lands him in the home of a friendly florist (voiced by Renée Zellweger) and, in the anything-goes premise, they find they can talk to each other. While Barry's parents fret that she's not right for him ("Is she bee-ish?"), he uncovers a plot to enslave his species and, like a good Jewish bee, acts as his own lawyer in a court case presided over by Oprah Winfrey. There are also guest appearances by Larry King, Chris Rock, Ray Liotta and, apparently, any other stars Seinfeld ran into in those...
...grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple melody in the foreground with complex string arrangements...
...They wanted something for nothing. He gave them nothing for something.” So goes the tagline for “Color Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story.” The inversion wittily exposes the vanity of the many Britons duped by Alan Conway, a man who spent much of the 1990s pretending to be Stanley Kubrick. The tagline is more apt, however, as a warning for the film. Essentially plotless, “Color Me Kubrick”—a fictionalized account of the Conway affair—is little more than...
...Office's Rainn Wilson swaps jobs and personalities to play a hippie-ish science teacher in The Last Mimzy...
...Indeed, there's nothing remotely prima donna-ish about a singer who, on the eve of her most serious role debut to date, can talk entertainingly about reflux, the latest James Bond film, and the merits of Skype. The first explains why Durkin won't be eating tomatoes or a curry before a performance anytime soon. ("Sometimes it's like, Oh, that's disgusting!") As for James Bond, the way Durkin describes Daniel Craig's performance in Casino Royale ("this guy is just hard-arse, and then he actually falls in love and you believe it"), he could...