'Shutter Island' nothing to shudder about
(02/24/10 5:25pm)
While it's no masterpiece, 'Shutter Island' certainly doesn't disappoint.
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Soldier of consistency
(02/17/10 7:30pm)
Although this album doesn’t break any new ground, it covers the same thing well.
Bloody fun
(02/10/10 5:32pm)
"Z-Land" succeeds at getting laughs, as well as upsetting stomachs.
Madness, deceit, murder onstage in ‘Lucia’
(02/08/10 2:14am)
IU’s production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” opened Friday and will conclude its run with two performances 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Not quite a hootenanny
(02/03/10 6:15pm)
The second album, “Realism,” falls short of the bar he set with partner “Distortion.”
Magnetic machine music
(02/03/10 6:03pm)
Although sometimes dark, “IRM” is often touching and shows that Gainsbourg is a jack of all trades.
A Spoonful of sugar
(01/28/10 12:21am)
This album won’t cause madness, but it might be intoxicating.
‘Che’ reveals fractured leader
(01/28/10 12:12am)
Benicio Del Toro is utterly compelling as Guevara.
‘Weeds’ pulls it together
(01/27/10 11:34pm)
“Weeds” has finally gotten back in stride with season five.
No miss for this ‘Moon’ shot
(01/20/10 6:59pm)
For his first feature film, Duncan Jones shoots for the moon and actually makes it.
A 'Big' premiere
(01/13/10 3:01am)
Brian Marks recaps the season four premiere of 'Big Love.'
Young Mr. Welles
(01/04/10 9:28pm)
Richard Linklater is one of the cinema’s greatest chameleons, and with “Me and Orson Welles,” he puts on another disguise. The man who has directed films as diverse as “A Scanner Darkly” and “Dazed and Confused” turns his sights to 1937, when Orson Welles was about to stage a monumental production of “Julius Caesar.”
‘Family Guy’ strikes back
(12/28/09 12:08am)
For its second “Star Wars” spoof / tribute, “Something, Something, Something, Dark Side,” “Family Guy” takes on “The Empire Strikes Back.” The show doesn’t have a great history with extended story arcs (see the three-episode Stewie movie), but by sticking to only double episode length and not arbitrarily chopping the episode into separately-aired segments, Seth MacFarlane and company make it work.
Creative Writing Program ranks 12th in the nation
(11/18/09 5:23am)
IU's Creative Writing program was ranked No. 12 in the country in the Poets and Writers Magazine, which based its rankings on a survey of more than 500 MFA applicants, for its November/December issue.
Play combines ‘Naked’ drama, laughter
(11/09/09 3:09am)
When playwright Lynda Martens began writing her first full-length play, she said she had little hope of it ever receiving a professional production. Despite the odds, Martens’ “Naked in the Kitchen” had its premiere Nov. 5 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project.
‘Your Song’ will appeal to few
(10/01/09 2:46am)
The inclusion of super-producer Clive Davis on Harry Connick Jr.’s “Your Songs” would seem like a sure step toward garnering a wider audience and greater commercial success. Unfortunately, Connick’s new album relies on tired standards and lethargic covers that are likely to please few.
Global warming hoax
(01/24/08 2:16pm)
It’s convenient to label global warming as a strictly political issue created by Democrats and hippies, but unfortunately global warming affects all of us, with dire consequences in the future. Chase Cooper’s ignorant column (“Eco swift boats,” Jan. 15) was bad enough since when did it become acceptable to cite a writer of fictional thrillers as a legitimate scientific resource? I don’t doubt that Michael Crichton does some research for his novels, but I have trouble basing any decisions on bestsellers written by someone who has at one point in time written about evil man-eating monkeys. Cooper also throws in a few names of those who deny that global warming exists. However, he acts as if the very existence of such people proves his point. In reality, it just emphasizes the limitations of his argument: Those five “experts” are expected to carry the same weight as hundreds of scientists who accept global warming as fact.\nAnd then Justin Hill’s piece comes along (“Convenient truths,” Jan. 17). The only thing “convenient” about Hill’s piece is its timing – just two days after Cooper’s drivel. It seems as if its goal is more to convince readers that the first piece wasn’t really that ridiculous since two politically slanted people wrote about the same subject in a short period of time. Not very surprising, however, considering that Cooper is the opinion editor. Hill’s piece is less palatable by far; it’s merely a forum to bash Democrats. I also take issue with Hill’s contempt for “green” campaigns. While I fear that some of these campaigns are misguided attempts to snatch eco-conscious consumers, trying to educate people about environmental issues is still a noble deed. Hill and Cooper forget, in their promotions for SUVs, that petroleum is a non-renewable resource, and it won’t be around forever. If only ignorance were as cyclical as they claim climate change is. Unfortunately, it isn’t; it just builds up until we’re up to our eyeballs in ignorance – and water from those melted ice caps we chose to forget all about.
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