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Phill Jupitus – review
When you are comfortably established in comedy's club class, no one expects you to innovate. It is to Phill Jupitus's immense credit, then, that this touring show is genuinely experimental and unlike anything else on the circuit. What it isn't, alas, is successful. Combining character comedy and improv, Jupitus...
guardian.co.uk (13 hours ago)
Cannes film festival 2013: Like Father, Like Son - first look review
Hirokazu Kore-eda has returned to Cannes with another gentle and warm-hearted family drama in that classic Japanese manner that he has been gravitating towards in recent movies like Still Walking (2008) and I Wish (2011). It is a very decent piece of work, although not as distinctive as those two previous movies,...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Black Rock
Having broken through as a filmmaker with the intriguing and moving The Freebie, actress Katie Aselton suffers the sophomore slump with her second film as a director, Black Rock. Written by her husband, Mark Duplass, Black Rock is meant to be a Deliverance-style thriller, a girls-vs.-boys tale set on a deserted...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Blankfein Will Not Be Happy About This
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc shareholders should vote against the Wall Street bank's executive compensation proposal because the board has "failed to link pay with performance," proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said in a report on Monday. Shareholders should also vote against director James Johnson,...
huffingtonpost.com (6 days ago)
The Apprentice looks tired, and the man behind The Killing will be missed
When Mark Thompson took over as BBC director general nine years ago, he vowed to clear away the detritus of old, tired shows running from formulaic memory year after year, sustained only in some television afterlife by bureaucratic inertia. Mission accomplished by the time he left? You can debate that of course. But...
guardian.co.uk (8 days ago)
Film review: 'Aftershock'
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Splat pack ringleader Eli Roth takes his gory roadshow south in "Aftershock," a lively but formulaic Chile-set chiller where a group of tourists finds themselves bloodied, bludgeone
norfolkdailynews.com (9 days ago)
Review: 'Aftershock' fun but by-the-numbers horror
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Splat pack ringleader Eli Roth takes his gory roadshow south in "Aftershock," a lively but formulaic Chile-set chiller where a group of tourists finds themselves bloodied, bludgeoned and buried beneath a horrific earthquake. With Roth playing one of the leads and handing off directorial duties to...
yahoo.com (10 days ago)
Are Entrepreneurs Junkies?
There's no magic recipe to starting a company. It's not formulaic; the process lives in the expansive arena of "grey area" affairs. So when explaining what you're working on, some people will understand what you're trying to do, others will think that your idea is ridiculous and look at you like you're nuts....
forbes.com (12 days ago)
All Stars – review
Not even the appearance of John Barrowman can bring this formulaic family dance movie to lifeGood-natured, well-meaning, but fundamentally and inescapably a bit ropey: that's really the only conclusion possible for this British urban dance movie for family audiences. It sticks to a time-honoured formula: local youth...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
The 50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time
Date night doesn't need to mean a formulaic chick-flick that's going to have one-half of the couple squirming and checking baseball updates on his phone.
pastemagazine.com (19 days ago)
Rob Delaney's new releases review
The funnyman reviews this week's singles, including Rihanna, Benga & Kano and BluePICK OF THE WEEK Benga & KanoForefather (Columbia)Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewSpooky bells, a horrible synth and a guy who keeps saying "lights, action!": it's like your little brother found the "dubstep" SFX on...
guardian.co.uk (28 days ago)
Sweat the Small Stuff: have comedy panel shows had their day?
Cheap, formulaic, blokey banter is near impossible to miss on primetime weekend TV. Good luck to Nick Grimshaw and his new BBC3 panel show in reviving a very, very tired format ...Comedy panel shows have been around since 700BC. They are popular, cheap and have filled a huge chunk of primetime previously given over...
guardian.co.uk (30 days ago)
Hilda Benard: How Duran Duran Saved The World
Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 7, Episode 8 of BBC America's "Doctor Who," titled "Cold War." For this week's installment of "What do we find out about Clara's origins," we learned ... absolutely nothing new. Yeah, I was kind of disappointed, but in a way I appreciated that the writers aren't...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
AUDIO: New Psy single Gentleman 'formulaic'
Music industry consultant Debs Wild says Korean singer Psy has "obviously worked out what works for him".
bbci.co.uk (1 month and 6 days ago)
Matilda: The Best Musical Since The Lion King
“My Mummy says I’m a miracle!” sings the first child to appear onstage, in the opening number of Matilda: The Musical. He’s quickly joined by more kids, all singing about how their parents treat them like princes and angels and Daddy’s “special little guy.” The delicious irony, of course, is that they’re a bunch of...
time.com (1 month and 7 days ago)
BioShock Infinite Review: Elevated Action
I always knew that reviewing BioShock Infinite would be a challenge. Normally, I’d follow the usual formula, talking about the game’s high points and low points, and slapping a score on the bottom. But BioShock Infinite isn’t formulaic. Here’s a game that in two weeks has already prompted more smart commentary than...
time.com (1 month and 9 days ago)
Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers | Jonathan Meades
Only a brutal demolition from the new director general can restore the glory of the British Betrayal CorporationNicholas Hytner recently complained that the BBC was "neglecting the arts". Melvyn Bragg has said that "I'm disappointed at the way the arts seems to be shrinking on the BBC."But both Hytner and Bragg are...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 17 days ago)
Cards bullpen in flux while Motte mends
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is accustomed to closing games with a formulaic sequence of Edward Mujica, Mitchell Boggs and Jason Motte. But with Motte opening the season on the disabled list, Matheny seeks late-inning stability without his closer.
mlb.com (1 month and 17 days ago)
Chris Addison – review
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWe're at London's Southbank Centre to see Chris Addison, so we're in the market, apparently, for jokes about olive oil, Farrow & Ball paint and how "horrible" poor people are. It's striking how tribal the Thick of It star's show is tonight, how rigid his borders between middle-class...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 18 days ago)
Andrea R. Vaucher: The Paia Inn on Maui's North Shore
The north shore of Maui is the true Hawaii, the Hawaii of every surfer's dreams, of National Geographic photographs, the Hawaii of the imagination. The wind whips the palms and Norfolk pines, waves crash against the shore, rainbows are as ubiquitous and colorful as Haviana flip-flops. It's not the Maui of formulaic...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
Not a pitched battle between India, Aus
With teams relying on a formulaic approach to play to their strengths in home conditions, Test cricket may lose out on the one element which gets in the crowds.
indiatimes.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
Play A Chord And This Database Will Guess Which Comes Next
Hook Theory mined data to see how chords are used, then mapped them. Pop music might come off as formulaic sometimes, and, to some extent, that's probably true. Hook Theory is a song database, and after analyzing 1,300 popular songs, looking at the chord progressions in each, it spit back some pretty cool...
popsci.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
'Married to Medicine': What If the 'Real Housewives' Were Doctors?
Reality TV -- especially Bravo's brand of it -- isn't brain surgery. Consider the formulaic Real Housewives franchise. Producers choose a group of outrageous personalities, throw in one or two people who are truly unhinged, and film the group's interactions. If all goes well, this produces the kind of ridiculous...
ivillage.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
Why Most Cloud Computing Companies are Doomed to Fail
It's that time of year again. You know what I mean, the weather is starting to get warmer, people are starting to venture out and most importantly, the spring conference circuit is in full bloom. Yet underneath this façade is an unspeakable truth. That of the annual PR migration, where flocks of unoriginal,...
forbes.com (2 months ago)
Admission: Grating on a Curve
Tina Fey may be our most reluctant movie star. That smirk of hers always suggests a joke is in the offing, and if her work on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock have taught us anything, it is that the joke will usually kill. But when Fey is trying to convey serious emotions, as occasionally demanded by her role as...
time.com (2 months ago)
Get the Blessing – review
Kings Place, Hall TwoBristol jazz-rockers Get the Blessing deliver daft between-tunes gags with a winningly apologetic resignation, but there's nothing resigned, apologetic, or frivolous about their music. The quartet emerged in 2000, hitching the rhythmic engine of West Country trip-hoppers Portishead (bass...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
Wells Fargo & Company Releases Results of Stress Test under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...
Filed under: Investing Wells Fargo & Company Releases Results of Stress Test under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wells Fargo & Company (NYS: WFC) today released the results of its company-run stress test conducted in accordance with the...
dailyfinance.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
Sarah Barness: The Craigslist Rideshare 'Talk'
So I guess Craigslist is kinda my thing. How is it my thing? If you count completely furnishing a three-bedroom apartment entirely with stuff found off free Craigslist, responding to ads resulting in group dinners, taking rideshares all over the West Coast, buying/selling things, finding three roommates and a house...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
Why Wreck-It Ralph Is The Best Video Game Movie Of All Time
Hollywood has tried for decades to take hit video games and cram them into formulaic action flicks. There’s a reason the majority of video game movies – regardless of how big a budget Hollywood threw at them – failed miserably at the box office. Video games are fine just the way they are – as interactive entertainment
forbes.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
Amazon forced to stop selling range of 'Keep Calm and Rape' T-shirts
US clothing firm Solid Gold Bomb says offensive T-shirt slogans were auto-generated by a 'scripted computer process'Amazon was forced to apologise on Saturday for selling T-shirts with slogans promoting rape and violence on its website.The American clothing company Solid Gold Bomb blamed an automated computer...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 19 days ago)
