Last year, Al Gore’s global warning, An Inconvenient Truth, stirred a lot of pots.The pinnacle of its eco-friendly warning was at the Academy Awards on Feb. 25, 2007, when the double-award-winning documentary inspired the Academy to make several announcements emphasizing that it was going green.
Why do dumb people always have to ruin something good?In most cases, you’d probably expect me to be referring to money-grubbing Hollywood destroying its originality with mediocre remakes, spin-offs, sequels and rips. But this time I’m talking about the average Joes.
Oktoberfest is usually associated with the traditional festival in Munich, Germany, which lasts for 16 days in late September and early October and is most widely known for the massive amounts of beer consumed during the festivities. But in Provo, the fest took on a whole new meaning at University Villa apartments on Saturday, Oct.
Since Lars and the Real Girl is the sweetest movie of the year, Dan in Real Life can safely be called the happiest, feel-good movie of 2007.Remember how the end of Little Miss Sunshine and Hitch brought feelings of self-consciousness, for fear of potential Amélies in the theater looking back at us to see our gleeful, smiling faces?Dan in Real Life has similar good vibrations.
Tonight, Monday, Nov. 5, there will be a free screening of Stalking Santa, the new holiday mockumentary made by all the best local improv comedy actors, in celebration of its anticipated nationwide DVD release on Tuesday.Screenings are being held in Los Angeles and New York City, as well.
n the 1989 action-adventure movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Professor Jones tells his archeology students, "We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and ‘X’ never, ever marks the spot." Professor Jones would have been an excellent geocacher.
UVSC student Nate Drew is well on his way to fulfilling his dreams. The 27-year-old music major has been chasing his love of music since the age of two, when he began mimicking his mother on the piano.He has studied at UCLA and the University of Utah, and his impressive credentials landed him a weeklong internship with the great James Newton Howard, a composer who has written scores for dozens of huge blockbuster films including The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense and Blood Diamond.
Several years back, only a small number of self-proclaimed elitists knew writer/director Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatiic with Steve Zissou). Now that networks have been producing mainstream shows (like Arrested Development) that introduce audiences to the same type of "punchline-less," intelligent humor that Anderson has perfected, his audience […]
10. Drive-thru windows9. Remote controls8. Global warming7. We Own the Night6. SLCC5. More fast-food joints4. Extreme Home Makeover3. Home Shopping Network2. Britney Spears1. Fat people
With so many cheesy shows making their way to primetime (ie., K-Ville, Cavemen, Bionic Woman), and considering NBC’s Thursday lineup holds the only new shows I watch (My Name Is Earl, The Office), I’m opting for TV on DVD over the most running shows. My nights aren’t being spent watching primetime soap operas like Desperate […]