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...drag down the last third of the album. This is most likely because it’s the album’s one song on which guitarist Stevie Jackson replaces Murdoch on lead vocals. Unfortunately, Jackson just isn’t a lead singer; where Murdoch is silky-smooth, Jackson??s singing sounds distractingly strained. “The Life Pursuit” probably isn’t the big-time hit that Belle and Sebastian deserve, as their new, more mature sound takes them another step away from the mainstream. Still, the new LP has plenty...
...continue to do so as she goes on to a basketball scholarship at Boston College. Brown’s level-headedness seemed to impress judge Paula Abdul, who ended up making the decision to let her go on to Hollywood after a split vote between Randy Jackson??s “yes” and Simon Cowell’s “absolutely no.” “There’s something empty about it all,” Cowell said. Despite their “yes” votes, Abdul and Jackson were...
This is a quote from Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” which is referenced repeatedly in Peter Jackson??s new version of “King Kong.” In some ways it describes Jackson himself; after conquering the box office and the critical world with his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, movie studios were falling over themselves in his praise and to hire him. Universal succeeded. Jackson was given $200 million to remake “King Kong,” Marion...
Over the course of the boat ride, Driscoll and Darrow fall in love. Very quietly, owing to Jackson??s inability to write romantic dialogue. Which gives Driscoll a motivation to become an action hero after Darrow is kidnapped by the crreeeppy “28 Days Later”-esque natives of Skull Island as a sacrifice for their God, Kong, who is computer generated version of computer captured movements of Andy Serkis—the same process used to make Serkis into Gollum in “Lord of the Rings.” After many action...
...After the success of films like ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ we realized we could do it.”Others make subtler allusions to the towering shadow cast over the market by Peter Jackson??s Tolkien adaptations. Deftly dropped keywords keep the tone of the discussion properly superlative.“People come into the movie wanting to see four kids and a house, a small British movie,” says director Andrew Adamson. “To me this is a family...