Jet'Get Born'On Elektra RecordsGrade: B-Starting with the opening moments of Jet's debut full-length album, "Get Born," when the lead singer says in a British accent, "Can you just give me one more try at that?" the entire album is exploding with the energy of a bygone era in music.
Just when you thought the 1980s had vanished, doomed to air countless times as cheap filler on a similarly doomed music TV station, it victoriously remerges with one of its most recognizable faces: Billy Idol.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are the filmmakers behind the new documentary "Lost in La Mancha," a chronicle about filmmaker Terry Gilliam ("12 Monkeys") in his sisyphusian battle to produce his spin on Cervantes' classic "Don Quixote." Gilliam's intended film, appropriately titled "The Man who Killed Don Quixote," stars Jean Rochefort as the autumnal and delusional Don Quixote and Johnny Depp as Toby, a modern day advertising executive who gets transported back in time and is mistaken by Quixote as his faithful squire, Sancho Panza.
Socialburn'Where Are You'Elektra/AsylumGrade: C +Warning flags should immediately fire throughout the dark recesses of the brain when the press release for a band's new album spends an entire paragraph lauding the producer of the album because he worked with such horrid bands as Creed and Puddle of Mudd.
Jack Nicholson brings new life to the bitter old man archetype in director Alexander Payne's newest stab at Heartland America, "About Schmidt." One of the best American films of 2002, "About Schmidt" is remarkably dry and appropriately laconic.
The opening scene of "Die Another Day," like the rest of the movie, is a high-action, special effects laden bonanza that goes overboard to provide the audience with the globe-trotting, martini-sipping, explosion fest that fans have come to expect of the Bond franchise.In the 20th installment of the James Bond series in 40 years, Pierce Brosnan has returned for a fourth time to reprise his role as the chauvinistic British spy that every man loves.
The Mountain Goats'Tallahassee'4ad RecordsGrade: B+The Mountain Goats' newest CD, "Tallahassee," covers familiar territory for the low-fi acoustic loving college crowd, yet the Goats cover it with a powerful intensity that brings an air of melancholy not often heard.
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