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Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews Sat, 10 May 2008 05:28:35 GMT |
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Intellect outweighs story in "Girls" revival
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Making its Broadway debut
in a handsome and beautifully acted production by the Manhattan
Theatre Club, Caryl Churchill's 1982 play "Top Girls" proves as
intellectually daring and dramatically unsatisfying as it was
upon its premiere more than a quarter-century ago.
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Docu chronicles family that surfed together
(Reuters)
- Reuters - When you've got a
subject as colorful as legendary surfer Dr. Dorian "Doc"
Paskowitz at your disposal, you'd have to mess up pretty
seriously not to have an engaging documentary on your hands.
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Billboard CD reviews: Death Cab, Black Angels
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Death Cab for Cutie, that poster boy
for sensitive indie pop, proves there's some grit behind all
that pretty, "OC"-approved music with "Narrow Stairs." The
follow-up to 2005's "Plans" provides welcome evidence of
growth:
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From couch to court, Gabriel Byrne charms in 'Camelot'
(AP)
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 AP - He can't sing and he can't dance, but Gabriel Byrne can charm ? and he did while portraying the chivalrous King Arthur in "Camelot."
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Page compels, but "Fragments" never jells
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A failed cinematic
experiment notable mainly for its fine starring performance by
a pre-"Juno" Ellen Page, "The Tracey Fragments" provides more
evidence (not that any was needed) that an extensive use of
split-screen visuals is far more irritating than arresting.
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"Vice" traffics in cop-movie posturing
(Reuters)
- Reuters - The cliches fly faster
than the bullets in "Vice," a B-movie with loftier affectations
and all the gritty authenticity of Cheez Whiz.
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Marital warfare strains for laughs in "Vegas"
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - A mean-spirited streak
is creeping into studio-manufactured rom-coms these days -- you
know, where someone wants to sabotage his best friend's
wedding. This escalates in Fox's "What Happens in Vegas," a
film that views marriage as a combat sport.
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`Rafta, Rafta' gently lampoons generational differences
(AP)
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 AP - Picture two young people trying to enjoy their wedding night in the bedroom right next to the groom's parents, and you'll get an idea of the frustrating yet touching comedic premise of Ayub Khan-Din's warmhearted play, "Rafta, Rafta ...," currently in a New Group production at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre.
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A family that built Saudi Arabia, and shaped a wayward son
(AP)
- AP - "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" (The Penguin Press, 575 pages, $35): In Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars," the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 account of the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family gets passing treatment.
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Capsule reviews of `Speed Racer' and others
(AP)
- AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Review: No luck finding surprises in `Vegas'
(AP)
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 AP - Come on, now. You already know "What Happens in Vegas."
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In `Top Girls,' Caryl Churchill dissects woman and power
(AP)
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 AP - More than a quarter-century has not diminished the theatricality of "Top Girls," British playwright Caryl Churchill's incisive dissection of how women deal with power and class.
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GAMES REVIEW: 'Iron Man' video game clunky
(AP)
- AP - "Iron Man" has always had a flight problem in video games.
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"Babysitters" falls short of intended satire
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - Attempting to be this
generation's "Risky Business," "The Babysitters" is the sort of
ribald morality tale that manages to feel sleazy and decorous
at the same time.
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In `Glory Days,' 4 best friends deal with trying to grow up
(AP)
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 AP - "Glory Days" is an eager pop-rock musical examining past, present and future ? as seen through the eyes of four best friends, a quartet of guys who have returned home after their first year of college.
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Parton brings crowd-pleasing country to Big Apple
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - For a musical performer, a
clearly defined persona can be just as important as talent, and
after 50 years in show business, Dolly Parton possesses both in
spades. Performing to an adoring sold-out crowd at Radio City,
the country singer-songwriter displayed in equal parts her
still beautiful soprano voice and a knack for comic shtick that
makes her seem like a modern-day Minnie Pearl.
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Review: `Speed Racer' just spinning its wheels
(AP)
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 AP - The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with "Speed Racer," one which has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world.
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Flashy "Speed Racer" quickly wipes out
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - Amid the push by
filmmakers to deny photo reality in favor of animated
impressionism comes the Wachowski brothers' "Speed Racer," a
movie that gives the sensation of being trapped inside a 3-D
video game.
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Review: A gorgeous but complicated `Fall'
(AP)
- AP - "The Fall," a whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups, is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic.
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Drama of domestic ennui too subtle for its own good
(Reuters)
- Reuters - This tale depicting the
quiet existential despair of a married architect who finds his
feelings reawakened by an attentive single woman is so muted
and internal in its focus that its entire running time feels
like a preamble to a drama that never quite begins.
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