Drop Dead Gorgeous Directed By Michael Patrick Jann New Line Cinema By: Eric G. Drop Dead Gorgeous is not nearly as artful or cerebral as Fargo is, but it is almost as funny despite many forced and easy laughs. Both films take place in the small-town Midwest and both films share a similar strain of […]

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Doldrums Desk Trickery Kranky By: Eric G. Doldrums is all about the manipulation of sound. The album title seems to be culled from a review of the band’s last album, Feng Shui, in which the reviewer from The Wire referred to the band’s mutated use of technology as “desk trickery.” All is not what it […]

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Echo What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? London By: Eric G. The chances that Echo & The Bunnymen would record another album together were slim to none just a few years ago, but the band resurfaced in 1997 triumphantly with Evergreen and defied all the forces against them. The original quartet released […]

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Edtv Directed By Ron Howard Universal By: Eric G. Apparently, the scriptwriters for EDtv didn’t think that The Truman Show went far enough with its twenty-four hour real life television concept because they pretty much run with the same concept here. EDtv is a blatantly commercial extravaganza that is supposed to be a satire of […]

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Eiffel Tower S/t Monitor By: Eric G. Eiffel Tower is the moniker Ben Wheelock uses to create relatively catchy pop songs infused with a stripped down guitar/bass interplay. Slightly distorted keyboard lines add a much-needed tension to the subtle riffs. Wheelock’s voice sounds uncannily like Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth- strained and angst-ridden. Wheelock plays […]

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Elastica 6 Track EP Deceptive Records By: Eric G. Hmm… Four years have passed and all we get is a shoddily put together EP with barely a recognizable utterance from Justine Frischmann? The two duets with Mark E. Smith are pretty cool if not mostly b-side material, but this is hardly a triumphant return to […]

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Election Directed By Alexander Payne Paramount Pictures By: Eric G. Election is the funniest black comedy since Rushmore- and that’s saying a lot. Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, an obsessive yet surface only do-gooder with a black heart who runs for Student Council President in a completely maudlin and podunk Midwestern high school. She thinks […]

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