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Abduction filled with plot holes

Patricia Uceda on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

Taylor Lautner of Twilight fame attempted to break out on his own this past weekend with the action-thriller Abduction. Unfortunately, this film was not the best vehicle with whichto establish him as leading man material and may have even set him back. While mildly entertaining, weak characters and a contrived plot make this film one to skip.

Coldplay enchants Piedmont with lights, music

Yameen Huq on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

After a six-year hiatus, Atlanta’s premier music festival, Music Midtown, was back in full-force on Sept. 24. Now consolidated into a single Saturday, the festival aggregated a series of bands into a compact, non-stop train of musical and aesthetic pleasure.

Office survives under new management

Joe Murphy on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

America’s favorite second-rate Pennsylvania paper supply company is back. The eighth season of The Office kicked off on Thursday, Sept. 22. With over 7.5 million viewers, the show is still proving that it can hold its own. And this year, it’s all about twos. Two new bosses, two new pregnancies and two words that we thought we would never hear: no Michael.

Moneyball deviates from sport formula

Brian Edmonds on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

With professional baseball making its way into the postseason, many will take much pleasure in Moneyball, Hollywood’s take on the Oakland A’s 2002 season. Adapted from the Michael Lewis book of the same name, the movie succeeds in translating the majority of the book’s finer points

Comedy Festival offers improv, parody humor

Siddharth Sreeram on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

It’s finally time to put those books down this weekend and take a stress-relief pill at the Black Box Comedy Festival at the Ferst Theatre. This year’s festival features new performers who guarantee that you’ll be clutching your sides by the end of their performances.

50/50 defines “dramedy” genre

Andrew Ho on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

Despite the presence of comedy actors and writers, 50/50 is a movie about cancer that will likely pull on the heartstrings of even the most jaded viewers.

Atlanta Symphony presents debut of promising season

Jonathan Peak on September 29, 2011 in Entertainment

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) played an impressive season opener last week on Thursday, Sept. 23, for a full house. Not only were the patrons out in full force, but the symphony showed its best, playing Wagner and Beethoven alongside vocal soloists and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.

Red Orchestra 2 is the patient man’s shooter

Andrew Ho on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is an entirely different sort of video game than one would expect from the first-person shooter genre and from World War 2

Gears 3 improves on all fronts, offers new modes

Andrew Akker on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

Few shooters have made a name for themselves quite like the Gears of War series. The series brings an unparalleled level of detail and engagement and improves both in its third installment.

Elbow rocks Center Stage

Jonathan Peak on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

On Sept. 20, British rock quartet Elbow filled Center Stage with a grand, intimate sound in an unparalleled show of skill and competency.

Straw Dogs lacks classic’s ambiguity

Chris Ernst on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

Straw Dogs, a remake of a film of the same name waters down the original for modern audiences but maintains a modicum of verisimilitude that is perhaps more salient, or at least more focused. Starring James Marsden, the Mississippi-set film does not pack as many punches or have as many complex themes as the original, but the ones it does explore are interesting. This remake is based on the 1971 original, which is based on the novel, The Siege of Trencher’s Farm.

Diaries drips with blood, hormones

Yameen Huq on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

Rarely has a soap opera had so much blood. The third season of The Vampire Diaries kicked off on Thursday, Sept. 15 on The CW. A fairly standard teen drama with the occasional dabble in grotesque violence, the show is more or less what’s on the label. However, the season opening, at least, comes packaged with an amusing B-movie gimmick: vampire-wolf hybrids.

Neon Indian is intimate and energetic

Lauren Payne on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

The dimming streets of Midtown Atlanta on Monday, Sept. 19 seemed to foreshadow little more than an evening of post-summer, pre-autumn purgatory and metropolitan blues—that is, until Denton, Texas’ Neon Indian rose from the primordial sludge of this deceptively barren evening to perform at the Masquerade.

Sunny stymied by commercials

Brian Edmonds on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a sitcom specializing in twisted and usually uproarious humor, returned to FX for the premiere of its seventh season on Thursday, Sept. 15. Possessing arguably some of the funniest moments on TV over the past six years, Sunny seems to have found a formula that works. It’s an understatement to say that the bar has been set high for season seven. The premiere registered only a blip on the radar of laughs.

Drive offers brutal thrills marred by bad dialog

Patricia Uceda on September 22, 2011 in Entertainment

Danish filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn’s latest film Drive stars Ryan Gosling as the brooding hero and Carey Mulligan as his token damsel in distress. Visually stunning, this noir-style thriller gets bogged down with weak dialogue, but once the action picks up it is a thrilling ride that fans of gory action movies are sure to love.

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