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July 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Radiohead gels in new album

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In recent interviews, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has implied that the recently released "Amnesiac" and last October's "Kid A" are two quite different records.



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'Swordfish,' Travolta flounder

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Fast cars. Terrorists. Explosives strapped onto hostages. Lots of money. Naked women and even a flying bus. No, this is not "Speed," starring heart-throb Keanu Reeves.


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Rustic finds a 'Viva Nueva' with Tommy Boy Records

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It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve, 1999, in the Portland, Maine's State Theater. Rustic Overtones singer Dave Gutter, halfway through a long, sweat-drenched set, doesn't bother telling his band to stop the music, but instead starts yelling the obligatory countdown on top of the current, unstoppable beat. "Ten, nine, eight " -- the audience couldn't care less about the upcoming unofficial beginning of the new millennium.











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An enjoyable 'Night at McCool's'

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"One Night at McCool's," is a good movie. Not a great movie, but good nonetheless. McCool's is the story of how Liv Tyler attempted to change her image from that of an innocent, love-lorn teen to that of a full-blown sex goddess.


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'Crocodile Dundee in LA' is down under(whelming)

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I recently signed up to review the worst of Hollywood's latest dreck as a public service for The Dartmouth's readers -- I watch a few horrible movies, suffer through their inadequacies and write about them to save you from a similar fate. I'm enduring this task only by lowering my expectations, something that wasn't very difficult for "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" The first two words of the title prepared me for yet another dreadful fish-out-of-water-saves-the-day storyline, and the finale of "Survivor: The Australian Outback" had already tested my threshold for Aussie-branded boredom. It's doubtless that "Survivor" played a part in the timing of this film's release, as American fascination with the Outback has been spurred to high levels -- though not Yahoo Serious levels --by the latest incarnation of the CBS game show. Only Aussie-philes will be disappointed by Dundee's decision to depart for L.A.




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A time for tears as nation bids farewell to 'Survivor'

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I'm not sure if I will be able to make it through the next five weeks of my life. As with all good things, CBS's "Survivor: The Australian Outback" will cease with tonight's episode, and there's a lot of crying going on in my dorm room lately: Colby's crying about missing his mother, Tina's crying about missing Doritos (and essentially anything edible), Keith's crying over the engagement to his girlfriend; and of course, my crying over the poignancy of the "Survivor" contestants crying, my crying over Elisabeth's recent exit from the show, and my crying about trying to make it through the final five weeks of my college career and beyond without "Survivor" to keep me company during lonely Thursday nights. What will I be missing?


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Audience may be 'Driven' to vomit

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What is the most terrifying line in all of cinema? Not "Here's Johnny!" Not "Do you like scary movies?" It's "Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone." Those words weren't always so foreboding.


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All-star cast and a dated script make for a one-star film

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Name any random theme off the top of your head and you can most likely find it in the twisted semi-surreal romantic comedy "Town and Country." The movie touches on sexual orientation, extramarital affairs, child-parent relationships, premarital sex, mystery seductresses, the daily life of wealthy New Yorkers, alcoholism, coincidence, fate and stereotypes, among others. But instead of appealing to the gay rights types, the New York-aholics and the romantics all at once, "Town and Country" is more likely to lose its audience somewhere between Long Island and the Upper East side. The guy exiting the theater muttering "That was terrible, just terrible," might have been reacting a little too harshly, but this movie was no "When Harry met Sally." The story is set in the circle of posh New Yorkers who own designer houses in the Hamptons and uptown apartments in the city (thus the not-so-inventive title of the movie). Plot nuances make it tough to explain the story line in a condensed form, but it starts by presenting two "perfect" long-married couples.