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Movie: This Is It

By: Chris Roberts

The concert film is absolutely, bar none, the worst of all genres. Towering monuments of vanity that require next to no work, served up to gullible fanatics and almost always guaranteed to bore. So it is all the more shocking to find that, This is It, an on screen love in for the dearly departed Michael Jackson, is an extremely well balanced work in which all the components are blended into a delicious elixir. Of course this one has Jackson's discography on its side and director Kenny Ortega (the High School Musical trilogy) wisely focuses on those songs that everybody loves so much.

The movie itself is rather slight, a collection of footage collected during rehearsal for the series of concerts Jackson was going to perform at the O2 arena in London. But Ortega also wants to show the way that this supremely larger than life superstar profoundly ...

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Music: Humanoid By Tokio Hotel

By: Monica Davies

Moody German rock group Tokio Hotel, who you may have heard of and who you’re likely to have mistaken for a girl group at least once, have just released their second full-length English album. “Humanoid” marks an attempt to break into the U.S. music market properly. It’s a 12 track (or 16 if you get the U.S. special edition) collection of stomping beats and melodramatic vocals that definitely singles the young band out as having something to say with their music, instead of simply singing along to some pretty-sounding tunes.

Most of the songs have a vibe that wouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with your typical German band - they’re slightly heavy, somewhat industrial sounding, and the songs are filled with synthesized vocals. But when the songs really get soaring, like the first single, “Automatic,” and “Darkside Of The Sun,” they really are great to listen to. “Forever Now” and ...

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Interesting take.

- Posted by hquinn @ 11/5/09, 4:36 AM

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TV: White Collar

By: Chris Roberts

Based on the fact that USA Network’s only really breakout hit, Monk (seven years ago now), was a detective show, they are somewhat apprehensive about branching out into new creative territories. Characters are indeed welcome if they happen to be middle aged men (preferably white) who have eccentricities that help them with their profession and also happen to create a fun viewing experience.

The latest effort at a sustainable clone being rolled out is White Collar, a slightly more cosmopolitan entry for them, which, when stripped to its essentials follows along the lines of Catch Me if You Can reformatted as a police procedural. Holding court is one Matt Bomer, a relative unknown, as Neal Caffrey. USA would have you believe that this "character" is worth your time because he is an art thief (sexy) who lands a get out of jail free card because he agrees to ...

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Truely Erudite words. I can read your own infinitely superior review of White Collar where exactly?

- Posted by Neil @ 11/6/09, 6:19 AM

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Book: Stardust By Joseph Kanon

By: Chris Roberts

It took Steven Soderbergh's subpar adaptation of The Good German to turn Joseph Kanon into something of a literary name, which is too bad because throughout his career (five books now) he has proven that his meticulously researched, richly textured stories deserve better than that stinker of a movie. With his latest, Stardust, he once again sticks with what he knows best; post World War II America and all of the paradoxes contained therein.

Stardust tells the tale of one Ben Collier, an army filmmaker who comes to Hollywood in the mid 1940's after learning that his brother Daniel, also a director, had an accident and is near death, arriving just in time to see his brother on his deathbed before he passes on. To Ben the whole situation seems very peculiar so he decides to put on his amateur gumshoe hat and open an investigation in the ...

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