He's the comedy songwriter who is deadly serious about his work. Meet Stephen Lynch, the man determined to prove that stand-up and indie rock really can get along.
Lacking serious competition, Just Visiting might easily be the most cheerfully brain-dead movie Hollywood has churned out in several years, and this would include the output of Adam Sandler and the Farrelly brothers
With Jim Carrey having decided to go all serious, and Adam Sandler presumably next to follow, it has fallen to Saturday Night Live refugee Rob Schneider - writer and star of the infernal Deuce Bigalow - to assume the position of America's cinematic King of Smut.
The pair’s comic sparring is decent enough in view of what they’re given, but an atrocious sub-soap opera script, replete with phrases like ‘anger monkeys’ and ‘fury fighters’, does its level-best to drill holes in the audience’s collective head.
Oh, the white liberal guilt, as Kurt never sang. James L. Brook’s rather limp comedy fancies itself as an intercultural celebration in much the same way as Daniel Bedingfield fancies himself as a musician. It doesn’t make it so, but in Mr. Bedingfield’s defence at least he warbles in three minute bursts. I think I was watching Spanglish for most of last month.
Re-telling the story of September 11 with a measured hand and lightness of touch hithertoo unhinted at, director Oliver Stone proves a more serious thinker than his paranoia-soaked canon would suggest. Here, he explains how his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam framed his outlook on life and art.
From rockers on the breadline to the political leader who has turned his mother into a deity, it’s all been grist to the mill of Caught In The Net in 2003. Stuart Clark presents the top ten.
Fresh from signing a heavyweight management deal with former Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson mentor Tony Ciulla, Dolores O’Riordan cameos in the a Adam Sandler film.
