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...what we thought. Go hear a live concert by Pandit Jasraj and escape to India for the night. Friday, Oct. 24. 8:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, MIT, $20 5) A Spooky Menagerie We’re sure pets, like college students, don’t want to miss out on being stuffed into costumes this Halloween. Thank goodness there’s an event designed to help them let loose and help their friends: a pet costume parade fundraiser for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. If not spectacular, it will certainly be a spectacle. Saturday...
Further clicks reveal a bound-and-gagged police officer ("Palin-ized!") a lipsticked pit bull and a Miss Wasilla sash whose logo changes to Queen Palin and a flat screen monitor for stock updates: teen pregnancy up, ice caps down, wolves down, parody websites...
...short years ago - let's call them the Little Miss Sunshine years - things were looking up in the world of independent films. New titles debuted at Sundance and walked away with multimillion dollar theatrical deals. But as the number of films flooding the art house circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet...
...introduces wives and kids for the sole purpose of killing them off and turning a loving husband into a revenge machine. You got the same deal in this summer's Death Race, where the Jason Statham character also loses his wife and baby, and endures the same frustrating near-miss of spotting the killer. But Statham channeled his mourning into a manly, stoic rage. Wahlberg's Max mostly broods; he's stolid, anomic, the walking (or, at the beginning and end of the film, swimming) dead...
...road film is a Hollywood tradition. From “Easy Rider” to “Harold and Kumar” to “Little Miss Sunshine,” these movies have a definite appeal as the viewer falls in love with characters who find themselves on a journey filled with allegorical obstacles. Too bad, then, that “Sex Drive,” the new movie from director Sean Anders, is the road trip as we know it in real life—the kind where you could care less about the drive. It?...