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The Chemical Brothers – Push The Buttons
Artist: The Chemical Brothers Title: Push The Buttons Label: Astrawerks Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: The new Chemical Brothers album Push The Button is, as it should be, the same as all their others, and totally different. It’s a follow up to their first album, and a follow up to their last album, and a follow…
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Monster
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Bubba Baker Studio: New Market Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Aileen Wuornos (Theron) had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan , becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos eventually moved to Florida where she became a…
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Monster
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Bubba Baker Studio: New Market Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Aileen Wuornos (Theron) had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan , becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos eventually moved to Florida where she became a…
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Open Range: DVD
Cast: Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon Studio: Touchstone Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Following the day-to-day encounters of four cattle herders who roam the countryside without owning a particular piece of land, or “freegrazers” (Costner, Duvall, Luna, Benrubi), living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the…
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The Butterfly Effect
Cast: Ashton Kutcher , Amy Smart , Eldon Henson , Eric Stoltz , Ethan Suplee Studio: new line cinema Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: A young man (Kutcher) struggling with the psychological effects of sublimated childhood memories devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body, but he finds that every trip…
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The Butterfly Effect
Cast: Ashton Kutcher , Amy Smart , Eldon Henson , Eric Stoltz , Ethan Suplee Studio: new line cinema Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: A young man (Kutcher) struggling with the psychological effects of sublimated childhood memories devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body, but he finds that every trip…
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Ani DiFranco – Educated Guess
Artist: Ani DiFranco Title: Educated Guess Label: Righteous Babe Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: Ani DiFranco has been “on her own” -to quote her company’s phone number-for a long time. But not since the release of her second album back in 1991 has she been quite as much a solo act as she is on her…
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Switchfoot – Interview [2004]
A Switchfoot interview with singer Jon Foreman! Has touring been what you expected? We’ve been at this for seven years so we’ve seen the highs and lows but this has been the best tour because we pick the opening bands and where we want to play. Is it weird to have people buy the cd…
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Queen – Greatest Hits III
Artist: Queen Title: Greatest Hits III Label: Hollywood Rating: 8/10 This album could be called Duets. With more guest stars than a Puff Daddy record, you begin to wonder how it qualifies as a greatest hits album. “The Show Must Go On” finds Elton John singing, with Queen backing him, minus Freddie Mercury. In some…
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Q-Tip – Amplified
Artist: Q-Tip Title: Amplified Label: Arista Rating: 5/10 And as the group known as Tribe Called Quest rides quietly into the sunset, frontman Q-Tip brings Amplified, his first solo album. He just might have made up for his former group’s most recent lackluster releases. The best thing about the album is that it is free…
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