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...belong together / Like traffic and weather”) and infectious. Lead guitar Jody Porter keeps things moving along with vigorous, sometimes restless guitar riffs right through to the album’s closer, a slightly twangy ditty about seemingly endless plane flights. On the other hand, lovely, mellow ballads like “Fire in the Canyon” and “I-95” assure us that the group’s newfound, ramped-up energy doesn’t come at the expense of their gentler, more melodic side. In fact, the opening guitar strumming...
Brody does, in fact, have a kind of geeky weirdness, a slight awkwardness on top of his mellow self-deprecating charm that Schwartz says manifests itself, for instance, when he transforms, as he does often, into a "monologuist movie reviewer." Or you can see it in his thwarted dream to produce a remake of Revenge of the Nerds. Or, as the neurotic Jewish first-time writer-director of In the Land of Women, Jon Kasdan (son of Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan), says, "He's a new kind of nerdy Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-possessed...
...parliament have scorned the film as though it were a matter of state, and for the first time in a long while, taxi drivers are shaking their fists in agreement when the state news comes on. Agreeing that 300 is egregious drivel is fairly easy. I'm relatively mellow as Iranian nationalists go, and even I found myself applauding when the government spokesman described the film as fabrication and insult. Iranians view the Achaemenid empire as a particularly noble page in their history and cannot understand why it has been singled out for such shoddy cinematic treatment, as the populace...
...Blossom Girl,” and instead embrace the moody cinematic quality of their music that has landed them on so many soundtracks. Air has created a musical sub-genre of their own by dusting off the synthesizers discarded after the 1980’s and putting them to mellow use. Their first full album, “Moon Safari,” rose to number six on the British music charts and caught the eye of writer/director Coppola, who had the group score her entire 2000 film, “The Virgin Suicides.” The group...
...Third Hand,” is more of the same but less of the old. That is, the album is still distinctively RJD2, but in his latest release the turntable auteur moves farther away from his hip-hop roots and toward a more indie sound. On first listen, the mellow beats and serene vocals make “The Third Hand” seem like any other quasi-electronic album. But when you realize that RJD2 (born Ramble John Krohn) wrote, recorded, and produced the entire album by himself in his basement studio, it’s hard...