If he’d known in advance a housewife was going to wave a copy of his out-of-print book in front of a television camera, author Charles Kipps would have been prepared.
The Moody Blues brought its patented sound to Montage Mountain Friday evening and the crowd loved every minute of it, showering the band with standing ovations song after song.
“Bandslam,” Summit Entertainment’s “High School Musical”/”Camp Rock” clone, is a movie about music and high school and guilt and fitting in. It’s surprisingly not awful for something this over-familiar.
In this, the year science-fiction cinema began to rediscover its brains, heart and soul, comes the impressively eye-popping yet cannily intelligent blast of social commentary from first-time features director Neill Blomkamp that may be remembered as a classic of the form.