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Monday, October 15
Across The Universe
A Mostly Magical Mystery Tour De Force
Trailer & Mo
The story is nothing new, and neither are the songs, but somehow visionary Julie Taymor cobbled together a mos fun musical about the 60s, using nuttin but Beatles tunes, sung by a bunch of nobodies + Bono (he aint no walrus, cause Mike Holmgren is!). With characters named Lucy, Jude, Sadie, JoJo and Prudence, this had Penny Lame written all over it, but to my sirprize, it was a pony worth digging. Movie musicals are usually juss bloated remakes of Broadway stage productions, hispecially bloaterrific in recent years with The Producers, Rent, Hairspray, Chicago & Phantom of the Poopera, but once in a blue moon (or harvest), a musical will be released that oozes with endless vim and vigor. Across The Universe is caught somewhere in between those two types, and as someone on IMDb purrfectly sprayed, it's as if 'Hair and Moulin Rouge had a baby'. While not nearly as wild or as wonderful as M Rouge, ATU is smart enuff to weave in some psychedelic silliness with the usual story about the rebelling youth of the 60s. If you think this movie is nuttin but Fab Four blasphemy, you're not necessarily wrong, but why not enjoy yourself and juss let it be. Those are words of wisdom that I speakings, yo!
Fuchs You!: Dana Fuchs, who unsexily plays Sadie, has got her own band, with an unoriginal name, playing unoriginal tunes, like 'Helter Skelter'
He Is Marshall: ATU bit player Logan Marshall-Green, better known as Ryan Atwood's scuzzy brother who Marissa shot, has twin brother named Taylor, who used to write for the U of South Carolina's daily newspaper, The Daily Gamecock
Beatles For Sale : the best use 674 minutes mt EVERest be The Beatles Anthology on DVD
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Jeepers Worth A Peepers
The Jane Austen Book Club
Easy Reading
Trailer
Strap on some boobs and check yer penis at the door boys, cause Austen is awesome... that is if yer stuck seeing a chick flick and yer only other choice is that new Tyler Perry movie. But seriously... outta all the girlie gabfests goings around, TJABC won't bore you to tears or force you to love dogs. Although the ending twas a lil too neat for my dirtysexymoney tastes, the rest of it was charming enuff, spanks in part to Hugh 'Lets' Dancy and the rest of the ladies (wit the eggception of Maggie Grace), who each added a nice bit o flavor to the club. We hispecially loved the icy cold hotness of Emily Blunt, who was robbed of an Oscar, let alone a nomination, at last year's Academy Awards for her work The Devil Wears Prada. To hell with you and your midget coat Jennifer Hudson!
Judgment Day: while it appears that none of the cast members have ever appeared in an Austen adaptation for the screen or TV, 3 have shown up on co-star Amy Brenneman's Judging Amy
Baker's Dozen: Kathy Baker has been in dozens of films, but you may remember her best as the randy redhead in Edward Scissorhands
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Jeepers Worth A Peepers
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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