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...assumes her role as queen, and Samuel Jackson even throws in a oneliner. Leading the cast is Ewan McGregor as the young Obi-Wan-Kenobi (if you think about what Titanic did for DiCaprio, imagine what will happen to indie-film-loving McGregor). Lucas knows that characters--unlike many sci-fi special effects extravaganzas--are the key Star Wars' success. Thus, he casts B-list stars that blend into the Star Wars world without ruining the illusion...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WAITING FOR `WARS' | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...solo album lives up to his billing. A theme album, Bobby Digital looks at the exploits of a partially mechanized creature. As you might guess, given the B-movie setup, not all of the album makes sense, but RZA does create an atmosphere of sci-fi menace and scatological humor. The music is propelled by elastic rhythms and scattershot rapping. Several tracks are vulgar and misogynistic, but RZA tries to show his softer side with a hiccuping hip-hop cover of the soul song Love Jones. This is a fine album. Romance never seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bobby Digital In Stereo | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Spooky: The sounds, telephones, car sirens going off, sci-fi channels, busy signals. You can listen and record your environment. There's a surrealism in basic everyday life. I'm here, I'm living, I'm walking down the street. I need to get a bite of food. I walk into a 7-11. There are all the candy bar wrappers and the lights. That's surreal. All the candy wrappers have smiley faces. That's real...

Author: By Roman Altshuler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DJ SPOOKY: THE INTERVIEW | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Director Paul Anderson envisions Soldier as a sci-fi/western hybrid, perhaps something along the lines of Road Warrior or Waterworld. Apart from barren settings, however, the three films have little in common. Soldier takes itself quite seriously, but the story's take-home message is so blatantly obvious that viewers may wonder whether the movie is actually some sort of farce poking fun at itself. Subtly crafted lines such as "My daddy always said, `If you want to put a nail in a board, you don't do anything fancy, you just use a hammer'" spoil any hope...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MEN OF WAR | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...ready for pain?" growls Captain Freedom in the very Schwarzeneggerian sci-fi fable The Running Man (1987), as a sea of leotard-clad beauties swirls in the background. "Are you ready for suffering? If the answer is yes, then you're ready for Captain Freedom's workout! Yeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinning Minnesota | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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