Review: 'Raise Your Voice' Stiff and Corny
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With Britney getting married twice in the same year, Christina going from blond bombshell to goth chick and back again, and Lindsay defending the authenticity of her breasts on a near daily basis, at least there's Hilary Duff, who seems to represent the last bastion of all that is sweet and wholesome in these mixed-up teen-idol times.
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Imagine Larry Davidâs HBOâs series, âCurb Your Enthusiasm,â without the bile. Thatâs the tone of âI Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.â
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Despite its star wattage--including Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave and others--the film is a limp look at what might have been
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"The Ten Commandments," a big, fat biblical boondoggle starring Val Kilmer, all but submerges the story of Moses in an oily sea of pleasant but unremarkable pop music.
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Spending three seasons watching thousands of wannabes warble their way toward attempted singing stardom can make anyone a bit restless.
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Sabesh-Murali's musical score is unimpressive.
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Only the pop tart&#39;s committed audience will enjoy this grating musical flick, as she attempts to become America&#39;s sweetheart in song and screen, writes Jay Stone.
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'The Wedding Date' suffers from a lack of chemistry.
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Funny voices are a good thing  in the world of film. And the ability to deliver them is even  better.
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Gandana Mane lacks freshness and has a cinematic narration seen in the seventies. Shivaraj Kumar tries to salvage the film, but it is of no avail. V Manohar's music composition is a saving grace.
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Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes.
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Kid Nation premiered last Wednesday, and the show was, for lack of  a better term, fascinating. It was formulaic and, well, just plain bad. But it was also fascinating. In case you missed it, the premise revolves around sending 40 children to a ghost town in New Mexico for 40 days. The ages of the children range from 8-15, with the majority lying somewhere in the 10-12 range. Once there, the kids will have no supervision beyond that of a couple of camera crew and the host, Jonathan Karsh, who comes and goes randomly, but always to help the kids on their path.    There's all kinds of hullabaloo about whether or not it's ethical to take kids and simply drop them off in the middle of nowhere. Though they immediately showed the largest factor in the parents' decision to let these kids on to a TV show that could do a mind job on them for years: A gold star (cute) worth $20,000. A star is handed out by the "town council" at every meeting, so presumably about 5 kids will go home with prize money. My guess is that at least one of them will also win some ridiculous prize at the end of the show...say a million bucks.    I'd like to say that's where the show gets "better", but it doesn't. On this show no one gets voted off, and everyone's going home a winner.
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Netflix and Blockbuster make nice, but it can't be nice.
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"Love and Other Disasters"  is no "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and Brittany Murphy -- hard to  imagine that this needs to be said -- is no Audrey Hepburn. The  romantic comedy is piled high with irritants and  superficialities, and finds too many occasions to let you know  how clever it thinks it is.
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For today's audience, the Paruthiveeran soundtrack is a big yawn.
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Tycho:  Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title.  Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations.  It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another.   It tries hard.  And it's not bad, by any means.  But it's not excellent, and perhaps unfairly it had this onus placed upon it.  I've said that Lair is not the Playstation 3, and nor is Heavenly Sword, but taken together one must come to the unmistakable conclusion that the Playstation 3 is a game console and not the supernatural artifact they have presented it as.  That however many processors and however many gigs of space are not especially relevant when put in the service of middling entertainment.    It has a decent combat system, and using this combat system you will progress from locked room to cramped, locked room until you come face to face with some jeering asshole.  You might kill them either because of the jeering or because you think that death might cull their interminable monologues.  There's a mean snake bitch and a pervert and an oaf.  Oh!  And en evil king.  The only thing running through my head during the lavish and no doubt expensive mo-capped cutscenes was that these kings and bitches and so forth should form a band.  It never seems to know if it wants to be a hilarious comic circus or a stark medieval saga.  Play it, and you'll know what I mean.     There are successes, though:  Kai, the mostly deranged sidekick, charms from the outset.  Her feral animations and nuanced delivery really make her stand out against this batch of also-rans.  Any object that can be thrown can also be thrown and then guided in slow motion, including corpses, which is something you must see to believe.  We didn't even have a target; we would just throw bodies so that they flew like Superman head-first into gongs.  This is something you can do for a half an hour - or more - without tiring of it.  This guided firing is called "Aftertouch," and it's about fifty percent of the game.  One wonders what the game's length would actually be if you didn't play half of it in slow-motion.        Some measure of your enjoyment will be bound up in whether or not you "buy" the story that they are telling.  I've heard it described as epic, when it's pretty rudimentary fantasy-by-numbers bullshit, so who knows.  It's all a matter of perspective:  are we judging it against only PS3 games?  If so, things are shaping up!  If you own more than one console - or a personal computer - your standards for grand storytelling were recently adjusted upward.
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Elliot Greenebaum's hardheaded comedy has the guardedly facetious tone of a fake documentary.