'Troy' arouses me to no end, but it's not history
I wish I could be one of those people who goes to see movies like "Troy" and manages to ignore any historical inaccuracy -- I'd probably be able to enjoy the stories a lot more.
I wish I could be one of those people who goes to see movies like "Troy" and manages to ignore any historical inaccuracy -- I'd probably be able to enjoy the stories a lot more.
I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties … they lead their country by a short route to chaos."
I always wondered how long it would take those boys from B2K and those other boys from IMx to get together and make a really crappy movie about street-dancing.
Come-from-behind, feel-good, larger-than-yourself stories -- at least the kind on display in "Miracle," the story of the "miracle on ice" 1980 U.S. hockey team which is new to DVD -- are something that will never go out of style in movies.
We are dealing with arguably the best western ever made and to make it better, there is no downside!
I like "Shrek 2" for all the same reasons I liked the original "Shrek:" it's smart, savvy, funny, creative and original.
James Cotton's career reads like a travelogue along the blues highway.
Some compare it to the Strokes; others compare it to the Britpop explosion. Me? I compare Franz Ferdinand's debut to a night of drinking, drugs and hot sex.
L.A.'s heating up again. Bad attitudes are notorious -- a la www.buddyhead.com -- and the guitars are getting just as abrasive.
The blues has always been a largely male domain. Sure, we've had a slew of great vocalists, from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday to Dinah Washington to Etta James to Koko Taylor.
A few summers ago in Indy, George Thorogood was getting ready to throw his bandana out into an audience of eager women throwing their arms up in excitement and screaming for him to toss it their way.
It might just be that the patron saint of adolescent sexual frustration and malaise got tired of the shtick that made him so popular.
Method Man fans, don't worry about the first single, "What's Happenin'" featuring Busta Rhymes being what Tical 0: The Prequel is all about.
His ill-fated romance with Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman may be behind one of his latest tracks, but inspiration seems to be one thing rocker Lenny Kravitz is sorely missing.
Any addiction is hard to kick, but getting my monthly fix from Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill has become an absolute necessity, and one that I am not willing to give up anytime soon.
To call Mike Skinner (aka the Streets) the British Eminem has become the ultimate cliché.
Like most young people, Roddy Chiong dreamt about the perfect job when he was a kid. He envisioned himself either being a zoologist or a guitar player in a rock band.
The Bloomington Fire Department is not speculating on the cause of an off-campus house fire Saturday morning that left three IU students dead and one injured, according to BFD Chief Jeff Barlow.
Did you hear the bad news? The sitcom died -- again.
Let's discuss television for a moment, shall we?