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OUR FIRST CONTEST!!!!!!!
Our pals at ABC Studios noticed that we just don’t run enough contests around here and generously provided us with two copies of “Eli Stone-The First Season” on DVD to feed the fire and have our first contest. Ok, so now we have the prizes, what hoops will we make you jump through to get them? How about a good old fashioned essay contest? In 50 words or less, tell us why you should win a copy of Eli Stone. Entries must be received by Sept 13 to be considered. Neatness counts. Judgment of the judges is entirely subjective. Every bit of legal mumbo jumbo that ever been written about contests that covers our butts is incorporated by reference whether you’ve ever read it or not. Now start submitting!
MARK PUCCI MEDIA
RORY BLOCK/Blues Walkin’ Like a Man-Tribute to Son House: Forget Sarah Palin’s easy chair feminism, cock an ear toward Block. After bringing home the bacon on a tribute to Robert Johnson, Block deeps deep into the well once again and does the right thing by Son House, a major blues figure of the past that doesn’t have the volume of acolytes to dust his grave and keep the dust off his memory. Staying as true to the blues on record as Bonnie Raitt does in her heart, Block delivers a performance that you could only get from a real fan that also has real chops. She might be New York born and raised but her heart is deep in the delta and classic blues fans can thank her for keeping the sound alive.
(Stony Plain)
JOE LOUIS WALKER/Witness to the Blues: Coming along in the blues revival class that was sparked by the emergence of Robert Cray, Walker is still one of the finest contemporary blues guitarists out there continuing to bring a full fury of passion to each new release to matter what the vagaries of the market and the marketplace have to offer. While we might be going through one of the fallow periods for blues currency, it’s mighty practitioners keep the fire burring bright. Tasty work for those with the hunger.
(Stony Plain)
BOOK SUPPLEMENT
ANDREWS McMEEL
PATRICK McDONNELL/Mutts Treasury-Call of the Wild: It must be time for the holidays to come sneaking up on us as we get the color, oversized Mutts edition coming our way. Culled from the 2007 strips, McDonnell keeps the critters right up to date as he has them doing their take on “Twilight” as well as their usual misadventures, hijinx and malaprops. A real top dog of a strip, once again we see this award winner just isn’t kittying around when it comes to delivering gentle laughs, thought provoking insights and the best of the comics tradition no matter what changes the form and newspapers are going through. Once again, McDonnell is on top of his game.
DVD SUPPLEMENT
UNIVERAL HOME VIDEO
BABY MAMA: First Adam Sandler startied making gross out humor for chicks. Now, newer SLN compadres have picked up the cudgel and are chicks making gross out humor for chicks. It would be totally unPC for guys to make a pic like this, making fun of pregnancy and the travails of the contemporary Type A women in dealing with all that messy stuff, but Tina Fey and Amy Poehler know what we’re thinking and bring that to a universal view of slackers, surrogates and over achievers in this date night pic for the new generation. Low humor can be such a wonderful thing when it hit’s the target so have a laugh and be glad it‘s not you.
WARNER HOME VIDEO
SPEED RACER: Mish mosh or the future or film making? That might depend on how you feel about Chim Chim. The Matrix Brothers bet the ranch on bringing this cartoon to pics in a most over the top fashion and one of the biggest complaints is that you can get epilepsy watching it. The other side of the coin from people that weren’t getting epilepsy is that this is the boldest looking pic ever. Nobody talks about whether or not the story was delivered, but hey, this was based on a 7 minute cartoon. What story other than Speed and Racer X keep re-enacting their version of “Ben Hur”? Some days you get “Iron Man”, some days you get “Speed Racer”. All I can say is holy moley, if you thought “Grand Prix” was some bold visual story telling about racing 40 years ago, things have changed.
SNOW ANGELS: Suburban angst for those still working out issues about their parent’s lousy relationship. With pics like this, you either relate to the subject matter or you don’t and that determines whether you feel it’s a good pic or not. On both sides of the camera, the talent is at the top of their respective games so the quality of the acting and directing isn’t the issue. The issue is whether you want to watch how two suburban marriages disintegrate and the carnage that flows. Hey, you either liked “Ice Age” or you didn’t. Same church, different pew.
Volume 31/Number 317
September 12, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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