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...Volvo, and head out to the Boston production of “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant.” Documenting the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the show features a cast of children, sarcastically belting tunes about the late messianic sci-fi writer and describing the trappings of Scientology, like auditing, the ARC Triangle, Xenu, and the Galactic Confederacy. Runs Wednesday through Sunday until Dec. 16 at varying times. BCA Plaza Theatre. Tickets $25 at www.bostontheatrescene.com...
...Venice, the bubble popped, and neither star could save The Fountain from a death sentence of boos at both the critics' and the public screenings. The film was dismissed as an expensive waste of time (although another high-IQ sci-fi epic shown at Venice, Alfonso Cuaron's dystopic City of Men, was reported to have cost between $80 million and $150 million). Weisz, who earlier this year received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener and became a mother, seemed equally maternal in defense of her new movie. "I think it's wonderful that this film...
...Fountain Warner Brothers Directed by Darren Aronofsky 4 Stars With its psychedelic special effects, 1000 year time span and complex, sometimes inscrutable, plot, the latest film from Darren S. Aronofsky ’91 is not your typical Hollywood Sci-fi thriller. Some will call it heavy-handed and over-the-top, or even out-right bizarre. But, those who become entranced by its completely stunning imagery, mesmerizing original score, and puzzling philosophical overtones will mark it as one of the most memorable films of the year. As Aronofsky’s first film since the 2000 indie classic...
...urbanites are willing to imagine what comes after; high and mass culture are on a postapocalyptic kick. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is an unflinching tour of an America rendered barbaric by a fiery cataclysm that ends most life on earth. NBC's Heroes depicts Manhattan destroyed; on Sci Fi network's Battlestar Galactica, billions die in a nuclear attack. And the most unlikely fall hit, CBS's Jericho, has more than 11 million people a week tuning in to visit a Kansas town that survives a nuking that has incinerated untold U.S. cities (taking, presumably, your local...
...blend of photo-realism and Photoshopping (the death was tricked up by superimposing Bush's face on an actor's body) and as part of a genre that seeks fanciful explanations for historical events or critiques the recent past by setting it in the near future. Call it poli sci...