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Thursday, October 23, 2003

 

Wowie zowie. It's been one heck of a long time since the last post. I figure visitors to my site have more than earned an update from me. So, bring on TRW articles, would you please?

Clooney Confronts, Courts, And Captivates Zeta-Jones in Coen’s Crazy Cruelty
Steve Wiley
Retriever Weekly Staff Writer

What do you get when you throw together a self-possessed, poetry quoting divorce lawyer, a spoiled, avaricious gold digger, and a cast of assorted kooky characters, including a creepy octogenarian attorney, a fairly bonkers, French poodle carrying Belgian Baron, and an asthmatic assassin? (Give up…?)

You get the latest film from the acclaimed writer director team, the Coen brothers: Intolerable Cruelty (* * * out of four), a semi-dark comedy that’s occasionally winkingly romantic, but at its most inspired moments is a mix of goofiness and farcical harshness.

On a few occasions, you’re almost convinced that the movie has gone 100% cornball, lovey-dovey mush on you, but the rather ingenious, if expected, plot twists make for great fun and even greater comedic payoff.


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Movie Soundtracks Try To Score Without The Movie
Steve Wiley
Retriever Weekly Staff Writer

Reviewing movie soundtracks apart from the movies they represent is a bit like buying bicycle tires. Sure, by themselves they might be of what you would call high quality, but you really have to take into account how they are supposed to fit the movie, (or bike), that they are chosen to accompany. Maybe it’s better to try to simply take the music by itself, and judge it solely on its own merits.

Intolerable Cruelty’s soundtrack (HHH out of four) begins, it’s nice with Simon and Garfunkel’s gentle but pointed ballad "The Boxer," a nice vintage tune that doesn’t really reflect the mood of the film, but serves as the track which introduces Geoffrey Rush’s outrageously ambitions producer character. I guess irony isn’t dead. Next is the catchy "Intolerable Mambo," the first of seven selections from Carter Burwell’s sly score.


Doncha just love that first headline? Made it up all by myself, I did. OK, I have to reason to get an inflated head over it, sorry. ;-)




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