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Clockstoppers
Cast: Jesse Bedford Studio: Paramount Rating: 5/10 A scientist invents a mechanism that speeds up any target that it hits to 25 times their normal speed, effectively making it seem to that person like time is standing still. The race is on to find a way to reverse the effects when his son Zak (Jesse…
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Sexy Beast
Cast: Ben Kingsley Studio: Universal Rating: 5/10 First, the boulder rolls down the hill, almost kills our main man and then the film just falls on its face from there. It’s a thug’s life. In a gorgeous villa on a cliff in Spain lays Gary (Ray Winstone) by his pool. He talks, walks and looks…
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Panic Room
Cast: Jodie Foster Studio: Columbia Rating: 6.5/10 Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders – Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight…
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Death To Smoochy
Cast: Robin Williams Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5.5/10 Death To Smoochy tells the comic tale of Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams), the costumed star of a popular children’s television show who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by Smoochy (Edward Norton), a puffy, Barney-esque fuscia rhinoceros. When Randolph discovers Smoochy is having an affair…
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Lionel Richie – Renaissance
Artist: Lionel Richie Title: Renaissance Label: Island Rating: 6/10 I think Cher caused a revival for faded stars when she took the world by storm with “Believe” because the past superstar Lionel Richie punches out the dance track “Angel”. Renaissance isn’t entirely a new, reborn Richie. Most of the album still sticks safely in what…
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Hatebreed – Preserverance
Artist: Hatebreed Title: Preserverance Label: Universal Rating: 8.5/10 The metal world has been waiting almost five years for a new Hatebreed album, and their major-label debut Perseverance will surely give the kids exactly what they need. After splitting from Victory records and embarking on huge national tours Tattoo the Earth (2000) and Ozzfest (2001), the…
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Down – Down II
Artist: Down Title: Down II Label: Elektra Rating: 9/10 This may be a biased opinion, but this is the best album I’ve heard since Kyuss released Sky Valley way back in 1994. Down fans have been waiting six years for the reunion to occur, and Down II will not let them down. For those of…
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Pretty Willie – Enter The Life Of Suella
Artist: Pretty Willie Title: Enter The Life Of Suella Label: Universal Rating: 8.5/10 Artist: Pretty Willie Sounds like: Nelly, St. Lunatics, and a little Bones-Thugs & Harmony Pretty: “Na Na” – Absolutely a Nelly rip-off but you can’t deny this hook. “Cut The Chase” – another ridiculous hook that doesn’t leave your head. “You Suella”…
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Jeremiah Freed – Jeremiah Freed
Artist: Jeremiah Freed Title: Jeremiah Freed Label: Republic Rating: 5/10 Name: Jeremiah Freed From: York, Maine. Influences: Third Eye Blind. Sounds like: Every rock band that is coming out today. Now hear this: Nothing that good. Average this: “Stranded”, “How They All Got Here”, “Rain”, “Wait For Me”… (are you starting to see a trend…
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Ali – Heavy Starch
Ali is one quarter of the St. Lunatics coming straight from St. Louis and representing all the country grammar.
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