What do you get when you add four beautiful youngsters, a former fashion photographer as director and a script from a bestselling novel by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter? The new horror film, The Ruins. Nominated for the adaptation of his own novel, A Simple Plan, Scott Smith's newest script is based on his work, The Ruins.
The East Gallery of the ICA seems in conflict with itself, its pristine white walls juxtaposed with ones that contain drawings of garbage and graffiti. This makeover is from the exhibit Street Level, which takes us from the business district of Boston to the cities of Los Angeles, New York and Miami, as well as Cape Town, South Africa, Berlin and Lima, to show us three different artists' interpretation of the worlds they grew up in.
A song on Jens Lekman's 2007 release Night Falls Over Kortedala entitled "Your Arms Around Me" adequately sums up who the twenty-seven year-old Swedish pop singer is. The track opens with strings, chimes and a thunderous backbeat before Lekman begins singing about preparing an avocado in the kitchen.
At age 41, it's difficult to imagine Stephen Malkmus ever stopping to re-examine his career choices. The former Pavement lead singer is currently touring with his band, The Jicks, and will be performing at the Paradise Rock Club on Thursday, April 3. After releasing five studio albums with Pavement, one of the most influential independent rock bands of the 90s, Malkmus and the rest of the members of the group went their separate ways and began working on different projects.
Stop-Loss is a well-meaning film by Kimberly Pierce that attempts, rather naively, to shed light on the subject of U.S. soldiers coming home from Iraq. Told from three returning soldiers' points of view, Stop-Loss hones in on the lives of what we are meant to perceive as simple, everyday American folks who claim to love their country and support the troops.
Originally entitled The Caveman Cometh, The Rubik's Cube is a dark comedy in the spirit of Monty Python involving British philosophers and American paleontologists, flare guns and stopwatches, previously-frozen cavemen and not-quite-so-frozen chickens. It's also a play about life and death, friendship and future and what to do when faced with the inevitable.
Each year at NewFest, the winner of the 2008 Rod Parker Playwrighting Award gets the chance to see their play produced and performed on stage. This year, the prize went to The Rubik's Cube playwright Kimberly Barrante, a senior Writing, Literature and Publishing and Theater Studies double major from Cheshire, CT.
Although he is no longer with us, author Kurt Vonnegut's words still echo through this generation. In his posthumously-published collection of writings, Armageddon in Retrospect, Vonnegut continues his stylized exploration through literature with a reflection upon his own experiences, as well as fictionalized accounts of war.