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...school are perfectionists.Hoping to make a splash on the national indie scene with a debut EP and a high-profile gig at The Middle East rock club, these four undergraduates can’t seem to make up their minds: one minute, they’re calling the Harvard milieu too closed-off; the next, they’re hosting their CD-release party as a posh wine-and-cheese soiree at the Signet Club. Blanks.’s ambivalence towards the Harvard community is striking, almost maddening.BROOKLYN TO BURRITOSLast Thursday, Blanks. were a bit out of their element...
...sharing their feelings, Love is better in theory than in practice. Cavanagh (Ed) has casual, self-deprecating charm to spare, but his support system of guy pals (including Beverly Hills, 90210's Jason Priestley) is a stale trio of upscale beer-ad types. And the show's music-biz milieu is phony and dated: Tom, a supposedly individualistic tastemaker, is about as edgy as a pair of pleated khakis. (He loves Bob Dylan and hates Hanson! Risky!) CBS may want to avoid alienating us unhip married guys with aging CD collections, but it sacrifices the authenticity that allows...
Daniel deserves a chance to improve, though, if only for its ambition. No, its Westchester-liberal milieu is not representative of all American Christians, but guess what? No Christian denomination is, and it is insulting to assume that an audience won't understand that. Red staters watch Desperate Housewives; law-abiding citizens follow The Sopranos. Some deeply devout Christians may be put off (though the fact that the guy with the family troubles is a liberal may reaffirm their beliefs). Some secularists may not like all the God talk. But what should matter to most is whether Daniel...
Allen's sharpest film in a decade (granted, a pretty weak decade) amasses all the fixings of a sexy thriller: a sly young man on the make, a femme fatale worth killing for, an inconvenient pregnancy, a secret diary. By relocating his milieu to England, Allen has an ideal setting for class animosity and intrigue in the lightly lethal spirit of Kind Hearts and Coronets. There's sultry chemistry between the leads: Rhys-Meyers, who has the pouty sensuality of a Jude Law left out to spoil, and Johansson, with the humid allure of a classic noir blond. When they...
...author flies from his home in Seattle back to visit his folks, various objects or sensations - an orange backpack or the smell of fast food - trigger flashbacks. These mostly center on the terror of living with an alcoholic, abusive father and a beaten mother. White masterfully evokes the milieu of the early 70s and hardscrabble folks that got married too young and gave up too much too soon. Fights would get bad enough that Shane spends stretches at a time with his grandmother, who takes him with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making...