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 | The Hardest Job to Hold Duncan Shorter (Joshua Jackson) has a gift. He can seemingly get himself fired from just about any imaginable job in a timeframe that would make your jaw drop. How and why he does it is the mystery we begin with in [b]Aurora Borealis[/b].More |  | Released on V2 Ada, 9/12/06 Back in days of yore, before the Mooney Suzuki wrote and performed the title track in [b]School of Rock[/b], before [b]People Get Ready[/b] and [b]Electric Sweat[/b] received rave reviews, The Mooney Suzuki were just a 24 hour, 7 day a week, hard working garage band. For those feeling a bit nostalgic about those long ago days in the late 90s, [b]The Maximum Black[/b] EP has arrived.More |  | Nothing Fictitious About This Talented Duo After banging out some quality shows in Southern California, Leopold and His Fiction head north to Nevada for a show in Boulder City and Sin City (read: Las Vegas, for the uninitiated), Nevada before returning to San Francisco for a one night stand at the Makeout Room on Friday, September 8th.More |  | Released on Atlantic Records, 7/25/06 For those looking for pastels, flamingos, and busty blondes in bikinis, Michael Mann’s film version of [b]Miami Vice[/b] is bound to disappoint. However, for those interested in a gritty, straight up crime drama, the latest incarnation of Crockett and Tubbs would likely keep said viewer engaged.More |  | A man of many different vices For driven, competitive, Type-As, [b]Factotum[/b]’s Henry Chinaski (Matt Dillon) must be nothing short of appalling. Chinaski leads a life that is comprised almost exclusively of boozing, screwing, and wandering aimlessly from one mindless job to another. Oh yeah…Chinaski also likes to write stories no one wants to read.More |  | An Apt Title If your grasp on reality is already a bit tenuous, [b]Lunacy[/b] may be a film best left unwatched. This mind-bending film is characterized by the director, Jan Svankmajer ([b] Little Otik[/b]), as a horror film inspired by both Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade.More |  | Listen Carefully Amidst a dissolving domestic relationship, radio host Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) forms an interesting relationship with a young listener, Pete Logand. When Pete’s manuscript falls into Noone’s hands, questions arise about the identity of the young boy. Noone embarks on a search for his listener’s identity that takes him to places dark and confusing in [b]The Night Listener[/b].More |  | Close Encounters of the Conjoined Kind There’s a certain artist that relies less on talent and more on image and gimmickry to draw a crowd. Some of the more notable artists who fall into said category (arguably) include: Marilyn Manson, who works the gothic freak angle. Ozzie Osbourne, bit the heads off of bats (and birds unfortunate enough to run afoul of him), but in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s [b]Brothers of the Head[/b] we get the ultimate gimmick with the freakish Siamese twins, Tom and Barry Howe fronting a 70s punk rock band, "The Bang Bang".More |  | Oedipal Assassins [b]Shadowboxer[/b] starts off with a bang (literally) as young Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.) pulls the trigger of his father’s gun shattering the mirror he’s looking at and with this simple act he becomes an assassin just like his dad. While the act of pulling a trigger may have been simple, the life that is thrust upon Mikey is the furthest thing from simple.More |  | Horror freaks unite! Horror films have experienced a renaissance in recent years with a plethora of “reimaginings”: [b]The Texas Chainsaw Massacre[/b], [b]Dawn of the Dead[/b], [b]The Hills Have Eyes[/b], [b]The Omen[/b]; and “originals”: [b]Alone in the Dark[/b], [b]Resident Evil[/b], and [b]Silent Hill[/b]. Many of these “reimaginings” and “originals” have fallen short in the eyes of critics.More |
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