The Black Keys make it look easy.
Recorded on April 4, 2008, The Black Keys - Live at the Crystal Ballroom offers the Akron duo at their best. Knocking out a raw, bluesy, minimalistic set in front of a sold-out crowd at the Portland venue, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney offer up unyielding gobs of get-up-and-go. Auerbach’s guitar is a weapon of distortion and vigorous licks...
The blockbuster season has gotten off to a pretty good start money-wise behind the good opening weekend fortunes of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek . I only see the latter as having any long term success, but I could be wrong. Anyway, week three sees us step away from the big effects, teen-targeted blockbusters to a potentially more thoughtful thriller aimed at an audience that skews older. I have to wonder if it has the strength to climb to the top, or if last week's champ, Star Trek , will stay at the top on the strength of its positive word of mouth. Aside from that, we also get a limited release romantic comedy that hopes to do well enough to garner a wider release.
Angels & Demons. (2009, 140 minutes, PG-13, thriller) A few years ago, director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks teamed up for The DaVinci Code . That film arrived amid immense hype and a boatload of
