It’s easy to forget how important a disparaging voice can be. Without the snarl of incredulous criticism, we might skip through life listening happily to Duran Duran or enjoying the occasional Uwe Bol film. No, it’s lucky you’ve got us, your fault-finding and unsympathetic critics here at Cadenza.
Against the express wishes of his crack team of doctors, Harrison Ford once again smashes into the silver screen, reprising his eponymous role in this highly-anticipated new installment of the “Indiana Jones” series.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li are together for the first time in the enjoyable, if hokey, “The Forbidden Kingdom.” It is an auspicious pairing, even if the venue is less so.
Director Rob Minkoff has created a “Crouching Tiger”/”Karate Kid” amalgam with entirely unoriginal frames, all of which are shot sumptuously enough that it’s hard to care.
I will readily admit I’m a film fanatic. Left to my own devices, I will chain smoke an entire box set of movies without budging for bathroom or cigarette breaks. But I will also admit there is an entire genre of film which, unless it is required of me by my job, I will not voluntarily see.
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) does not want anyone to think it is a venue for the paragon of high art. In fact, it has purposefully set out to display that its shows are anything but fodder for the super-elite; it is set in the midst of one of the most popular destinations in Chicago, and therefore is quite accessible to the lowbrow.
Mike Doughty is best known as the front-man of the early ’90s band Soul Coughing, which served up alternative electro-pop infused with everything from jazz to rock, DJ loops, and the sharp, spoken-word poetry that became Doughty’s trademark. Today Doughty has signed with ATO Records and has released his second solo album on this label, “Golden Delicious.”
You probably don’t know what Jeff Ma looks like, even if you’ve seen the new movie “21″ about a group of MIT students who take Vegas for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In fact, you’ve probably never heard of Ma, even though he was a real-life MIT student who, with a group of other math prodigies, took Vegas for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A wrap-up and blow by blow of the Oscars from start to finish, complete with color commentary by Senior Cadenza Editor Brian Stitt.
Whatever qualms you may have about formula movies, “Step Up 2 The Streets” reinforces them. That’s not to say, however, that you won’t leave the theater grooving. Some great dance set pieces fill out an otherwise lackluster film about a girl going through the motions.
I do recall making some sort of “I’ll see ‘Over Her Dead Body’ over mine” joke when I was first subjected to the trailer of this heinous romantic comedy. Unfortunately, my job is to brave the bad ones so you don’t have to and, frankly, this one wouldn’t have been any better posthumously.
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