AP - Nicolas Cage is back to his dreary former self — you know, the guy who starred a decade ago in such downers as "8MM" and "Bringing Out the Dead" — with the tediously monotonous action flick "Bangkok Dangerous." -- read full article
Reuters - NEW YORK (Billboard) - "The Day That Never Comes" is what
Metallica fans felt they were pining for while awaiting the
follow-up to 2003's ill-received album "St. -- read full article
Reuters - Indie film darling
Darren Aronofsky stumbled with his most recent movie, "The
Fountain," but he's back on track with "The Wrestler," which
had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and is seeking
distribution.
Reuters - The raison d'etre for
"Passchendaele" is a savage World War I battle by that name, a
proud yet horrific moment in Canadian history that cost the
still-young and underpopulated country so many of its finest
young men.
AP - It may seem incongruous to make a musical by combining exhilarating Afrobeat music and lively, often sensual dancing with grim stories of a military government's oppression of its citizens. But when the result is the exciting new off-Broadway show "Fela!," the messages and the music meld into near-nonstop exuberance. -- read full article
Reuters - Leave it to
an enigmatic-after-all-these-years rock legend to play a
50-year-old creaky venue that hasn't been a concert hotspot for
quite some time. Back in the 1970s and '80s, the Santa Monica
Civic Auditorium played host to shows from the Kinks to Queen
to the Clash. The sound was never very good. -- read full article
