I am very excited to invite all of our Lawrence/Kansas City-based Scene-Stealers sitegoers to our first gathering of the masses. It’s a perfect amalgamation of the Halloween spirit, a charitable cause that we truly believe in (Children’s Music Fund), and everything else our website stands for—including partying, rad movie memorablia, trivia, and rock n’ roll! On […]
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Manhattan, KS in the house! There was a brief “whoop” from the crowd last night at the advance screening of Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic “W.” when the Bill Snyder-coached 2003 Kansas State football team made a brief appearance in the movie. Having gone to school there, played probably more than a hundred rock shows there, […]
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[youtube y2SVdshWjD4 nolink] If you’re a fan of the original BBC version of “The Office,” with Ricky Gervais (whose better-than-average romcom “Ghost Town” was unfortunately ignored by moviegoers last month), then you’ll get this comparison with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin right away. If you’re not, maybe it will be the impetus for going out […]
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Scene-Stealers sitegoer Nick Spacek is a self-described “rock star journalist.” He likes going to “rock shows. Punk shows. Shows where there’s cigarette smoke hanging in the air. Staying up until 2am, driving an hour, and going to work on two hours’ sleep. My ears ringing for hours afterward. Cheap beer and finger pointing while I […]
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Eric and guest co-host Matt Brown do an Instant Review of the new Ridley Scott-directed “Body of Lies,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. “Body of Lies” is a mature movie about complicated issues. It is also is a well-acted, convincing piece of work. But does it have as much emotional complexity as it has […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances in a Middle Eastern-set Ridley Scott film that can’t seem to muster any emotional dynamics.
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Bill Maher leads the attack on Christianity in this agnos-terrific documentary that never gets beyond a bunch of talking heads.
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Say what you will about the manipulation of facts in a Michael Moore-directed documentary, but the man knows how to tell compelling stories. Critics accuse him of hogging too much face time, mounting attack interviews, and staging publicity stunts, and they would all be right. But his films resonate. Not only does Moore cover hot-button […]
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The upcoming Academy Award telecast on Feb. 22, 2009 will have contain something during the station breaks that no other Oscar broadcast has in 50 years. Ads for other movies. Any movie up for an award is still prohibited form advertising during commercials, but during this downturn in the movie business, the studios are hoping […]
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This week’s user-submitted Top 10 comes from a guy I know very well. Cameron Hawk, from Lawrence, KS, is a singer/guitarist in The Dead Girls. It’s only appropriate then that he rings in on the ongoing debate in our Top 10s about music in movies. If you have a Top 10 idea you’d like to […]
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An epidemic of blindness takes over an unnamed city in this hard-to-swallow vision from director Fernando Meirelles. Starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
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From the trailers, “Blindness” may look like an M. Night Shyamalan event movie where an unexplained supernatural event leads to chaos and it’s all resolved with a twist ending, but it’s actually the kind of movie that could conceivably be shown in a Western Civ course. Like that required 100-level history course, though, the movie […]
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This Ed Harris pet project is a traditional Western in every sense of the word, from its themes right down to the gorgeous “magic hour”-shot cinematography.
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There’s hardly an extended action scene in Ed Harris’ new Western “Appaloosa.” Everybody is such a good shot that almost all the gunfights last about two seconds. Actor/co-writer/director Harris, working from a book by Robert B. Parker, is clearly not worried about modern action conventions. He also knows what classic Westerns should look and sound […]
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