Although they had a small-time start in Canada, they’re now huge in the U.S. Nickelback smashed onto the Billboard charts in 2001 with “How You Remind Me” and has convinced folks to buy more than 25 million albums since then. Included in Nickelback’s trophy case are accolades from the MTV Video Music Awards, the World Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, the Juno Awards, and several nods from the guys at the Grammy’s.…
If you looked solely at box-office receipts, you’d never know we’re in a recession. Transformers 2 has cracked the all-time top 10, and is poised to cross the 400 million dollar mark in US sales. And the new Harry Potter film made nearly 400 million worldwide in its first five days.…
Rated: R Huh. I did not see this one coming… I’ve been looking forward to the release of Judd Apatow’s Funny People for a long time. As soon as I saw the first trailer for it, I knew I’d love it.…
I’m willing to forgive much in movies based on books, such as the Harry Potter franchise. The actors are looking much older than their bookish counterparts—that’s understandable and unavoidable. And there simply has to be some cutting of threads and plots from the books—particularly from the middle of the series when the books were bloated, 800-page behemoths.…
Researcher Dr. Leonard Sax, author of Why Gender Matters, says gender differences are hard-wired: “There do appear to be distinct differences that influence how boys and girls experience the typical school classroom; how they understand instructions to clean the room; and how they respond to emotionally arousing situations.”…
I have a confession: I’m a youth a pastor who’s a musical idiot. I like music. I’m just horrible at all of it. I can’t sing a note. I don’t know jack about youth culture music. I stink at name that tune.…
The other day I was carefully observing the speed limit as I raced past a highway on-ramp-and that’s when something…organic…caught my eye. There, not 20 feet from rush-hour traffic, I saw two adult geese-one in front, one behind, with five little goslings sandwiched between them-waddle-parading their way up the center of the on-ramp into certain carnage.…
Rated PG-13 One of my favorite questions to ask people is what movie they’ve seen the most times in theaters. I think if you’re going to spend your money to see a movie multiple times, what you choose to see says a lot about you.…
The Hangover (Rated R) Abraham Lincoln once said, “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” And if that’s true, the characters in The Hangover have a lot of virtues. The film has received a major advertising push in the past month or so and, as a result, actually beat Disney/Pixar’s Up in its second weekend in box office earnings.…
Drag Me To Hell (PG-13) Most people know director Sam Raimi for his blockbuster Spider-Man movies—or perhaps from A Simple Plan, his underappreciated tragic tale of greed. But he first burst onto the scene in the ‘80s with the Evil Dead series—over-the-top campy horror films that were large on both gore and laughs.…
