Artist:
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Bono deserves props for global stumping on Africa’s behalf. So it’s
good that this tribute is a rootsy thank-you, not a world-music
cheesefest. Guinea’s Ba Cissoko reinvents “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
with kora-harp ripples, guitarist Vieux Farka Touré turns
“Bullet the Blue Sky” into a dusty Malian blues, and Cheikh
Lô makes “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” into […]

Artist:
Review:
Bono deserves props for global stumping on Africa’s behalf. So it’s
good that this tribute is a rootsy thank-you, not a world-music
cheesefest. Guinea’s Ba Cissoko reinvents “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
with kora-harp ripples, guitarist Vieux Farka Touré turns
“Bullet the Blue Sky” into a dusty Malian blues, and Cheikh
Lô makes “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” into […]

Starring:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Christina
A…
Review:
If you’re expecting Martin Scorsese to do a Last Waltz
number on the Rolling Stones, snap out of it. No way are the Stones
the departed. No way are they ready for a farewell concert like the
classic 1978 elegy Scorsese did for the Band. In Shine a
Light, the Stones […]

Starring:
George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce,
…
Review:
He belongs to two churches — film and football — and
George Clooney worships at both in Leatherheads, a scrappy
debate on the rules we live by disguised as a screwball comedy. In
his third shot at directing, following two savvy meditations on
media and politics (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and
Good […]

Artist:
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The interplay of music and race in the Sixties is usually perceived
as a one-way street — white musicians drawing on (or, worse,
ripping off) the songs and styles of black artists. Stax Does
the Beatles demonstrates that the influence occasionally ran
in the other direction, to delightful effect.
A hotbed of funk intensity, the Memphis-based Stax label housed
a stable […]

Starring:
Steven Strait, Camilla Belle
Review:
Call it Apocalypto for pussies — a PG-13 rating,
puh-leese! — or prehistory for peabrains. Just don?t call it
friendo. 10,000 B.C. will take your money, rob your time
and hit your brain like a shot of Novacaine. The best acting comes
from woolly mammoths, man-eating ostriches and a saber-toothed
tiger — and those babies are digital. […]

Starring:
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner
Review:
Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that’s full of
surpgoes up I have no intention of spoiling. I’ll say this. In 1971,
a robbery took place at Lloyds Bank in London that involved a royal
sex scandal. The thieves, played here by Brit athlete and model
turned credible actor Jason […]

Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba…
Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family, is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s […]

Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba…
Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family, is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s […]

Starring:
Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Lauren
McKin…
Review:
In a multiplex front-loaded with cheap jolts (Vantage
Point) and cheaper jokes (how psyched are you to see
College Road Trip?), filmmaker Gus Van Sant gives us a
haunting tone poem laced with violent death. The setting is
Portland, Oregon, where Van Sant lives and where Paranoid Park
attracts the city’s riskier […]