 WHITEOUT
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“In 10 years, we may look back at Whiteout and call it genre-defining. I know of no other movie that more aptly embodies the category of films that should never have been made. Whiteout centers on the-hottest-thing-to-hit-the-Antarctic-since-global-warming-U.”
Trinity Heights talks yielding positive change
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“I was pleased with the Sept. 15 editorial, "A beautiful day in the neighborhood?", and I'd like to share a few more thoughts about relations between students and long-term residents in Trinity Heights. First of all, I'd like to thank Duke Student Government representatives, particularly Will Passo and Andrew Brown, for initiating contact between students and neighbors that led to a student being elected to our Neighborhood Association board.”
SORORITY ROW
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“Recent horror movies like Drag Me To Hell gave a faint glimmer of hope that the genre was at last escaping the formulaic slasher movie stereotype it had fallen into. But then Stewart Hendler's Sorority Row comes along and kills that hope with a lug wrench.”
THE BLUEPRINT 3
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“Though Jay would never admit it, the status he's attained does have its downsides. Being hip-hop's global ambassador for more than a decade has changed his perspective, but more than that, it's changed his lifestyle. As we saw on Hov's comeback album Kingdom Come, the witty crack-rap that made him the legend he ultimately became is in short supply.”
JOURNAL FOR PLAGUE LOVERS
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“U.K. outfit Manic Street Preachers' ninth album, Journal for Plague Lovers, retains their 1990s guitar rock sound all the way. A quick glance at the track list may produce a few chuckles: "Me and Stephen Hawking," "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time," "Virginia State Epileptic Colony" and the title track are absurd in their specificity.”
THE RESISTANCE
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“The Resistance is a fitting title for Muse's fifth album. The fact that the U.K. group still makes records seems to resist the law of nature that bad bands eventually die out. Having failed to fulfill the prophecy that they would be the next Radiohead, Muse has turned to ripping off other orchestral modern rockers like Coldplay and the Killers.”
COLD SOULS; Feature Film
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“Writer-director Sophia Barthes' existential dark comedy Cold Souls is as close to an homage to Charlie Kaufman that a film can get. Barthes channels both a quasi-factual/fictional role for Paul Giamatti a la John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich, and the happy emptiness post-medical procedure as displayed in Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind.”
Merge records at 20 years
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“OUR NOISE John Vook with Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance Algonquin Books When John Cook opens the 11th chapter in Our Noise, "If there is a quintessential Merge band aside from Superchunk, it is Lambchop," it becomes instantly clear what this book is. If the prior 226 pages hadn't suggested as much, this is not a bloated account of Merge Records set to please Arcade Fire fans.”
[excessive] compulsion
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“I've had quite the vampire fetish for a while now. This was way before True Blood and Twilight, back when my favorite movie was/is Queen of the Damnned. Back when it was frowned upon to hang out at night in a low tree branch in the neighbor's front yard waiting for their daughter Katie to get home from the mall.”
The Sandbox
by The ChronicleSep 16, 2009“I planned to write this Sandbox about the Girls of the ACC issue of Playboy. But I couldn't. As such, I present why. Raised in the Catholic Church, I've long carried a healthy sense of guilt. To qualify my rearing, my parents were no papists. My mother constantly complained of the Church's mistreatment of nuns and general misogyny (don't even try arguing with that one).” | News Topics
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