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New Releases:
Deepak Chopra's Buddha #1
New Avengers #39
Green Lantern #29
Rant:
Why does DC Comics seem to hate Jack Kirby, and why don't the bother to explain to fans that the last few issues of Countdown have to do with a series written in 1972 that most people don't seem to remeber?
COMIC BOOKS is written, shot, and edited by Michael Goldberg
-Children of Men might become a television show! Interesting.
-Dr. Pepper will give you a free can of pop if Axl Rose finishes the latest Guns N' Roses album in 2008. Supposedly Axl Rose had nothing to do with this.
-$35 for a movie ticket! No thanks.
-Will vinyl kill the CD as the choice for music in a physical form? I like to think so.
-Ian McKellen is returning as Gandalf in the movie adaptation of The Hobbit! Sweet!
-Benicio Del Toro looks wicked as The Wolf Man. I cannot wait for this to be released.
-Interesting experiment - a movie critic reviewed '21' based on its trailer (as it gave away the whole movie).
-Great list of 9 directors worse than Uwe Boll.
CT! WEEKLY is a list of the top movie, music, television, game, gadget (and anything else entertaining) news of the week. If you have any news we can use drop us a line at info@criticizethis.net (or post a comment below).
There’s something vaguely sitcom-like in the humour of Run, Fatboy, Run
– as if it was lifted from an episode of, say, Friends. You can see the
jokes coming a mile away in the feature directorial debut from David
Schwimmer, best known for his role on the ‘90s sitcom, and few are all
that funny.
I have to say this is the first Simon Pegg movie I can say I found boring – he was brilliant in Shaun of the Dead and to a lesser extent Hot Fuzz. Come to think of it, even his small but memorable role in Mission Impossible III evoked more laughs than Run, Fatboy, Run does.
21 - Based on a true story about MIT students who took Vegas for millions by counting cards. Rising star Jim Sturgess plays shy, gifted pupil Ben Campbell, who's compelled by an unorthodox professor (Kevin Spacey) to take part in the get-rich-quick casino scheme. Kate Bosworth plays a fellow math whiz who catches Ben's eye.
Run, Fatboy, Run - The decidedly unfit Dennis (Simon Pegg) trains for a marathon as a way of winning back his true love Libby (Thandie Newton), whom he left pregnant at the altar years before. He doesn't have much time though as she's about to marry the charming but self-absorbed Whit (Hank Azaria).
The Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride
4AD, 2008
*** out of five
John Darnielle, leader of The Mountain Goats, has been operating under the radar for so long now, that it seems almost inevitable that Heretic Pride will continue his tradition of releasing albums that people should listen to but mostly don’t. Unbelievably, Heretic Pride is The Mountain Goats’ fifteenth or sixteenth album in the past seventeen years, depending on whose history you believe. Obviously, Darnielle has an impressive body of work, but then again quantity is no substitute for quality. So does Heretic Pride measure up? In some ways, it’s the Goats’ finest work, but in somehow it lacks the overarching themes and unity of career highlight, 2002’s Tallahassee.
The recording quality is The Mountain Goats’ best yet: it’s clean and uncluttered while being embellished with tasteful instrumentation. The cellos swoop and glide over songs like In the Craters of the Moon, and strings quietly support many of the other songs. More than most other Goats recordings, Heretic Pride rocks an unconventional, almost Waterboys-like vibe, both in the acoustic moods of the Irish rockers’ Fisherman’s Blues and the rockier Dream Harder. In fact, the way Darnielle phrases songs like Lovecraft in Brooklyn is uncannily similar to Mike Scott’s intonation.
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The Chair is a Canadian horror film directed by Brett Sullivan (Ginger Snaps 2). The trailer (below) gives off a vibe like The Orphanage (which was one of the creepiest films I've seen in a long time).
Check it out and let us know what you think.
The Kite Runner Criticize This! pick of the week - Based on the Khaled Hosseini book, The Kite Runner is a great film about friends, family, honour and redemption. Directed by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Stranger Than Fiction).
The Mist - Something is in the mist and it's killing people. Pretty decent horror flick from the team of Stephen King and Frank Darabont. Starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laurie Holden.
I Could Never Be Your Woman - A mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) falls for a younger man (Paul Rudd) in one of the worst movies of 2007.
Also available this week: April Fool's Day (2008), Wristcutters: A Love Story
Graphic Novels:
New Releases:
Captain America 36
Countdown 6
Thor 7
COMIC BOOKS is written, shot, and edited by Michael Goldberg
-Check out David Letterman's Top 10 Reasons to Watch Battlestar Galactica.
-The trailer for Sukiyaki Western Django looks amazing!
-CBC is releasing shows for free via BitTorrent (too bad they don't make anything you want to watch).
-Director Anthony Minghella died this week. Rest in peace sir.
-2001 author Arthur C. Clarke passed away this week. Very sad news.
-Radiohead is holding an online video contest. Wonder what Trent Reznor will have to say about it?
-Are these really the 50 Most Controversial Album Covers of All Time?
-How to Lose a Movie Set in Vegas (an interview with Jim Sturgess on the movie 21).
CT! WEEKLY is a list of the top movie, music, television, game, gadget (and anything else entertaining) news of the week. If you have any news we can use drop us a line at info@criticizethis.net (or post a comment below).
Drillbit Taylor - Three high school teens being terrorized by a maniacal bully hire a low-budget bodyguard, Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), to protect them. Co-written by Seth Rogen of Knocked Up fame.
Shutter - A photographer and his girlfriend are haunted by apparitions in his photographs after a tragic accident occurs on their honeymoon in Tokyo.
Meet The Browns - A single mother (Angela Bassett) takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of a man she's never met - her father.
