NBA.com Blog: Gilbert Arenas (NBA) This summer, Gilbert both tested and gave the final stamp of approval to NBA Live 08 from EA Sports. A former second-round pick, Gilbert Arenas discusses his transformation into an NBA superstar....more...Across the Universe (2007) (New York Times) Evan Rachel Wood is Lucy, and Jim Sturgess plays Jude in Julie Taymor?s ?Across the Universe.?...more... My first football game (Michigan Daily) For years, I wondered if I was missing something. As a little girl, I remember hearing the voice of the football announcer wafting over the city to my front lawn. For two decades I've lived in Ann Arbor without ever setting foot into the Michigan Stadium. I had seen old women swear at Buckeye fans and grown men paint themselves yellow, and I had always assumed that something magical must happen ......more... Suitably scary for Halloween (Asbury Park Press) Every child has his or her own capacity for processing the difference between fun scary and genuine fear. Lucky for parents, there's a wide spectrum of kids' books new for Halloween, from the safely cute to the uncomfortably eerie, with points between for all ages....more... Search (Drowned In Sound) ATP Weekend One: The Dirty Three: the DiS diary... DrownedinSound.com went to All Tomorrow?s Parties? The Dirty Three -curated weekender at the end of April. We arrived full of excitement, bubbling like freshly poured pints of £3-a-pop lager....more... The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [2007] [R] - 4.7.4 (Kids-In-Mind) Western about the last days of Jesse James (Brad Pitt). Along with his brother Frank, Jesse is the only other James who's not dead or in prison, and so has to enlist the help of outsiders in order to continue robbing....more... DVD Stalk: Hostel: Part II, Black Sheep, and Saw III: DC (DVD Talk) We kick off this week's batch of horror DVD reviews with Bill Gibron's take on the DVD release of Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II . Here's some of what Bill has to say about the film: "What did Eli Roth do to deserve such wrath?...more... Admire rainbow, ignore pot of gold (TVNZ) While the 'Rainbow' nation has claimed the Rugby World Cup for the second time, for the All Blacks the William Webb Ellis trophy remains as frustatingly elusive as the pot of gold that one never finds....more... Excerpt from 'Interred with Their Bones' (USA Today) Excerpt from 'Interred with Their Bones'...more... |