Outstanding cast offers unsentimental take on sentimental subject
3.5 Stars With Sarah Polley, Deborah Harry, Scott Speedman and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Isabel Coixet. MPAA Rating: R 106 minutes Release Date: Oct. 17
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3.5 Stars With Sarah Polley, Deborah Harry, Scott Speedman and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Isabel Coixet. MPAA Rating: R 106 minutes Release Date: Oct. 17
For Isabel Coixet, it shouldn't take the influence of a film to teach you to seize every day of your life.
For love or money? It's the eternal question film-makers try to answer and inevitably they choose love in the end. "Intolerable Cruelty" wants to be that kind of film, the kind of film that leaves audience members sighing with the hope of true love as visions of "happily ever after" dance in their heads. Sadly, "Intolerable Cruelty" leaves audience members sighing with confusion as to whether love is truly better than money.
Uma Thurman lives in a world where gender rules do not apply, where violent revenge is the only solution to personal wrong-doings and where one woman can single-handedly kung-fu fight her way through a room of more than 50 masked men. And where the final, and only goal is to "Kill Bill."
Not just for teenyboppers
As with many things, the draw of the television screen can often be a much stronger force than the necessity of homework. After a summer of reruns, many procrastinators are looking forward to the return of fall television. This season boasts the last of "Friends," Alicia Silverstone's return to the entertainment industry and yet another season of "Survivor."
Here's a good question: Why is there a topless kid, who may or may not be enjoying one of the finer moments of a drug trip, spastically flailing around the unfortunately half-full 9:30 club on a Saturday night? The answer is Maceo Parker, arguably one of the best funk musicians of our time.
1. Three Second Kiss and Taking Pictures The Black Cat's backstage at 9 p.m., $5 The Black Cat is one of D.C.'s smaller concert venues and usually plays host to more eclectic and independent music acts. Shows are generally all-ages. The club is located at 1811 14th St., near the U Street-Cardozo Metro stop. For information call (202) 667-7960 or visit www.blackcatdc.com.
Summer means tank tops, flip flops, a job requiring all of three months of commitment and maybe a fling requiring even less devotion. Yet, while people shed substance in other aspects of life, they may expect it from summer movies.
Paul Giamatti sat eating grapes, inadvertently dropping half of them on his hotel room floor at the St. Regis in Washington, D.C. He intermittently drank from a bottle of water, which he habitually held over his mouth while speaking. After a day of interviews he appeared somewhat disheveled. Though he remained rather monotone during his discussion of his starring role in the new film "American Splendor," he concluded excitedly, recounting his brush with death during the filming of Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes."
Sweat-drenched and feeling bitter at being the oldest people there, three members of the Eagle staff took on the 2003 Van's Warped Tour from four U.S. cities. In its ninth incarnation, the Warped Tour crisscrossed the nation from Idaho to New Jersey, bringing the biggest names in punk rock and extreme sports to over 40 cities.
In a time that is marked by an enormous uprising in pop music it is refreshing to find a band that embodies something a little bit deeper. There is certainly a lot to be said for music with intelligent, emotional lyrics that is composed of more than just three chords. Jets to Brazil can absolutely claim to be a band that generates such music.
The movie industry has a problem: they are completely devoid of an original idea. Someone at the top of the Hollywood hierarchy must have thought, "Hey maybe this summer instead of releasing high quality films that come from unique screenplays, we should just release a sequel to every high grossing movie made in recent years." And that's exactly what happened.
By EMILY ZEMLER Eagle Staff Writer
It's hard when your favorite band suddenly releases a hit album and becomes the desire of every adolescent of the MTV persuasion. This is not to say that you aren't happy for the band's success, but you no longer feel like they belong exclusively to you.
"Adaptation"