Here at the University, it's the Dave Matthews Band. Florida State? Creed. (How appropriately unsavory.) UNC-Chapel Hill, not to be left out in the cold, claims to be the birthplace of another illustrious college-town band, the now defunct and absurdly named trio Ben Folds Five.
"Love and Theft," Bob Dylan's latest album, should have been called "43." That's how many albums this makes for America's grittiest troubadour.
For the second time in recent history, Mark Wahlberg interacts onscreen with a legion of lesser-evolved, excessively hairy beings.
True horror requires a delicate balance of subtlety and full-on terror. Latter-day slasher films are pretty much unable to pull it off, but an old-fashioned monster movie like "Jeepers Creepers" stood a chance at being a truly great horror film.
A strong young cast puts "Othello" update "O" at the top of the list of recentteen Shakespeare adaptations - no small feat for a film that almost didn't make it to theaters. Mekhi Phifer is Odin "O" James (Othello), the star athlete and sole black student in an exclusivesouthern boarding school.
Watching "The Anniversary Party" will leave viewers feeling as if they have taken part in the same drug trip the characters experience in the film.
System Of A Down is mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore. Teachers, politicians, scientists, cops, groupies and, come to think of it, everyone else, really suck in System of a Down's world.
A half a year after its initially scheduled release date, the solo debut album from Jadakiss has finally dropped.
Who could have predicted that the man who created Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear, director Frank Oz, would one day run across both Don Corleones?
"How do I put my soul on a piece of paper?" This is a question every applicant must struggle with when faced with the inevitable doom of college admission essays.
Jay and Silent Bob are like fine wine: they seem to get better with age, different people have different tolerance levels for them, and they make some people puke. The duo's latest vulgar display of stoner power, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is indeed a striking string of rapid-fire gags tailor-made to please fans while thoroughly insulting and alienating nay-sayers. The movie's plot is extremely loose, providing a cartoony landscape for the Generation X Odd Couple (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively) to get into trouble and discover all kinds of wild things about the underbelly of both road travel and Hollywood. Right off the bat, the two are slapped with a restraining order to prevent them from dealing drugs in front of their favorite store.
It's been a strange journey for the man they call the "King of Pop." It's hard to compare the young boy in Jackson 5 footage to the Michael Jackson of today, a snow-white waif-thin recluse who's rarely seen in public.
Slipknot is definitely not a band for the masses. To listen to their music takes a certain disposition, and to enjoy it takes an even more open attitude.
With her distinctive voice, Bjork sings like she's telling a secret - sometimes whispering it in your ear, sometimes screaming it for all to hear.
When it comes to remakes, Hollywood should make it mandatory for their previews to end with a flashing red screen reading "Enter at Your Own Risk." "Planet of the Apes" is no exception to the shoddy remake rule, and this cinematic stinkbomb is awful enough to destroy one's faith in humanity. "Apes" even attempts (unsuccessfully) to hide the fact that it's a remake in the opening credits-it claims to be based on the original novel by Pierre Boulle, but the screenplay is no closer to the source text than Burton's erratic "Sleepy Hollow" was to Irving's classic tale. The plot has been modified slightly from the original.
"Captain Corelli's Mandolin," the latest directorial effort from John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love" ), bursts with potential, teases audiences with a breathtaking setting and lures unsuspecting moviegoers with big names and a historic, true-to-life story.
It seems like everyone is writing a memoir these days. Bill Clinton just got a record $10 million for his, because he was president.
"Scary Movie" was less a movie, and more a transcendently puerile, brilliantly idiotic, jaw-dropping spectacle.
Ever wonder what common house pets do when you go to sleep at night? The makers of "Cats and Dogs" apparently have given this topic some serious investigation and now the truth finally can be told. This fun family flick reveals ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that demonstrate that people didn't actually worship cats thousands of years ago.
This is the second review I have written of Travis's "The Invisible Band." I scrapped the first attempt after I realized I had written an essentially negative review of an album that I actually liked.
