On October 1, I'm going to make a trip up to Toronto to catch Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they cross the continent on their Dig!!! Lazarus, Digg!!! tour.
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Have you heard Laura Marling's debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim?
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There are a million reviews of Nolan's latest offering in his reimagined Batman movie series, The Dark Knight. You can find a lot of them here, go read them. I can summarize, though: You should see this film. There, that's out of the way.
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Another monday means another installment of our regular BSG series. As usual, there are spoilers here so don't read it if you can't handle that.
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Remember Dan Brown and The Da Vinci Code? He reintroduced the world to theological conspiracy theories, and converted the "Mona Lisa" into something more than just a masterpiece of its time.
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As usual, the following will contain spoilers. Don't want to know, don't read it. Recap
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With cutting edge computer generated animation, a roguishly regal Anthony Hopkins, a mostly-naked Angelina Jolie, a script co-written by Neil Gaiman and an original narrative source dating back 1500 years, the new Beowulf movie has to be good...right?
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Rambling Introduction We all remember music in late 2001/2002 - Nu Metal was still being treated with inexplicable respect, Weezer had publicly announced that they would henceforth suck, Avril Lavigne had burst onto the scene with all her antiestablishmentarian Candian punk rawk …
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Nintendo DS players have been tapping their styli, waiting patiently for their own "Zelda." "The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass," the latest in Nintendo's much revered, long-running series, is upon us. Was it worth the wait?
To call "The Darjeeling Limited" precious is less a critical judgment than a simple statement of fact, equivalent to saying that the movie is in color, that it's set in India or that it's 91 minutes long.
This week at E3, the long-awaited trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 was released. It's not on youtube yet so it'd be hard for me to give you a direct link, but go to any game site and they will stream it for you.
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So the White Stripes finally released their latest effort, Icky Thump, on June 19. I held off for a while reviewing this because quite frankly I had no idea what I thought.
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