Civic's 'High School Musical' lives up to image (South Bend Tribune)
SOUTH BEND -- Disney's tween-focused marketing phenomenon, "High School Musical," charges into town with the South Bend Civic Theatre's production of the show so beloved by its pubescent audience that it has become a multimedia enterprise....more...REVIEW: Mission to the sun falls just short of a space odyssey (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Danny Boyle is the British director of such diverse work as "Trainspotting," "Millions" and "28 Days Later." Yet it's still astonishing that anyone who isn't a Hollywood hotshot would attempt a science-fiction film as ambitious as "Sunshine."...more... The Political Simpsons (in Today's Big Story) (The Tyee)
Eleven great satirical clips....more... "Sunshine" is mostly cloudy, with a low chance of originality (Seattle Times)
Cluttered storytelling undermines "Sunshine," a moderately suspenseful space opera that borrows liberally from several science-fiction classics......more... Film's power is sapped at end (The Charlotte Observer)
Danny Boyle sure can make three-quarters of a good film. "Shallow Grave," "Millions," "28 Days Later," even "The Beach" all begin as fresh looks at old genres and then, in the last 25 or 30, crumble like mummies exposed to polluted air. ("Trainspotting," still his masterpiece, somehow avoids this problem.) "Sunshine," his foray with screenwriter Alex Garland into science fiction, has all the ......more... Glad grads of 'High School Musical' (Boston Globe)
BEVERLY -- Kelly Buck of North Andover caught the acting bug at age 5, when she was cast as a Munchkin in a local church production of the "The Wizard of Oz." Now 19, she has 15 years of dance experience and a lengthy list of theater credits, the highlight of which she said is her current role as a ......more... Watcher: Close, Hunter put flawed, fascinating women at the fore (Chicago Tribune)
...more... Movie review: 'Sunshine' (The Record)
High gas prices, the need for alternate-energy sources, even global warming are tiny blips next to the problem encountered in the intriguing but ultimately unsatisfying sci-fi tale "Sunshine," in which our friend Mr. Sun runs out of fuel....more... Screen Time (Washington Post)
You can't stop the beat. . . . ยท Young fans of "High School Musical" should put on their dancing shoes for "Hairspray," a toe-tapping movie musical in theaters starting today. Zac Efron improves on his Troy Bolton persona as a singer and dancer in 1960s Baltimore, joined by an excellent cast (Amanda... ...more... |