Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2005
Music Preview: Dresden Dolls; The Second Vermont Republic; An Animated Appreciation of Eadweard Muybridge; Vermont Vodka
News Quirks 10.26.05
Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies in Clarendon County, S.C., spent 18 hours looking for Gregory L. Mouzon, who they said robbed a gas station, then carjacked a 1996 Ford Taurus from an acquaintance who had driven him to the station. After receiving a tip that he was hiding at a residence in Manning, investigators saw…
Astrology 10.26.05
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some of the most confounding enigmas about the human condition might be explained if the theory of reincarnation were valid. I invite you to spend the next week trying it on for size. There’s no need to become a true believer. Just experiment with the possibility. Imagine that you’ve lived many…
Steve Kimock Band, Eudemonic
(Sci-Fidelity Records, CD) There’s a common term for the milquetoast noodling that California-based guitarist Steve Kimock traffics in, and it’s called elevator music. An altogether uninspired outing, Kimock’s latest release, Eudemonic, is filled with bland jazz-lite that attempts to pass itself off as respectable fusion. Kimock, who is something of a god amongst neo-jam and…
Possumhaw, Split-Rail
(Self-released, CD) America is witnessing the re-emergence of acoustic music, particularly the bowed, strummed and picked variety. Over the last few years, a new generation of musicians has embraced the instruments and sounds of post-war Appalachia and started producing fresh bluegrass albums for today’s music fans. Burlington quartet PossumHaw is one such group. Their self-released…
UNLEASHED***
Louis (The Transporter) Leterrier directs the new action-adventure from Jet Li, the saga of a martial artist forced to fight in death-matches until a chance encounter with a blind piano teacher sets him on another course. With Morgan Freeman, Kerry Condon and Bob Hoskins. (103 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/unleashed-tlr.html
MAD HOT BALLROOM***1/2
First-time filmmakers Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell do for choreography what Spellbound did for orthography in this heart-warming documentary about 11-year-old New York City public school students waltzing into the world of competitive ballroom dancing. (105 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_classics/mad_hot_ballroom.html
LAND OF THE DEAD***1/2
George Romero pioneered the zombie genre that has made so many young filmmakers rich in recent years. Here he rehashes his own formula with a story about flesh-eating freaks who roam free outside a fortified city. Starring Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo and Simon Baker. (93 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/landofthedead/
BATMAN BEGINS***
Christian Bale stars in Memento director Christopher Nolan’s exploration of the caped crusader’s origins and emergence as a force for good in the city of Gotham. Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy costar. (134 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/batman_begins/trailer/
