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72 HOURS OCTOBER 16, 2003 U! ARCMuncie’sA all-girlD quartetE explains why they did not OUR follow the typical blueprint for female rock bands. R page 6 BUTT ON 285-8257 INSIDE: MICHELLE BRANCH, THE MATRIX RELOADED, ELECTRIC SIX, WHITE RIVER LANDING, ENIGMA, THE STROKES, JONATHAN SANDERS’ ‘IN MY HEADPHONES’, 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS, VERTICAL HORIZON 2 • Culture CULTURE EVERYTHING BUT POLE DANCING Vicki Lawrence CMT’s Most Zack Bent: and Mama — A Wanted Live Dropping the Two-Woman with Rascal Ball and Other Show Flats, Chris Common 72HOURS Civic Hall Cagle and Brian Dilemmas Performing Arts McComas Mitchell Place Center Emens Gallery The Ball State Daily News Saturday Auditorium ends October 28 arts and entertainment tab 4 p.m. and 8 Friday Friday and p.m. 8 p.m. Saturday sold out noon to 5:30 Rent p.m. Don’t see your event listed? Clowes Ball State Sunday Memorial Hall Symphony noon to 4 p.m. Friday Orchestra 8 p.m Emens Friday Night Saturday Auditorium Filmworks: 2 p.m. and 8 Sunday Pirates of the p.m. 7:30 p.m. Caribbean Sunday free Pruis Hall 1 p.m. and 6:30 Friday p.m. Heartland Film 9:30 p.m. TELL US! Festival free Of Mice and Indiana History Men Center and What Men Don’t Muncie Civic other Tell phone: 765-285-8257 Theatre Indianapolis Murat Theatre Friday and locations Friday and Saturday Friday, Saturday Saturday 8 p.m. and Sunday 8 p.m. email: [email protected] $7 for students visit www.heart- $26.50 landfilmfesti- val.org for times and locations Movics • 3 BEN ‘MOUSE’ MCSHANE’S CINEMA REEL CALL MOVIES IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND BLOOD, NINJAS AND UMA OPENING THIS WEEK and his bizarre wins in court, in MUST-SEE MOVIE clan. Inspired by this romantic com- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Runaway Jury the 1974 classic edy, Zeta-Jones ES Starring: John In the first part of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film, film of the same courts to win. The professional assassin Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) Cusack, Gene name, the movie is film presents a begins her journey to seek revenge on the four assassins and their leader who attacked her on her Hackman, Dustin inspired by a chain playful mix of wedding day. Hoffman, Wendell of actual events. Beverly Hills glam- “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” is absolutely everything you would Rohr, Rachel our and malicious expect and hope it to be. Stunning visuals, flabber- Weisz gasting camera work, blood geysers and edgy perfor- IN THEATERS competitive fun. mances from the actors make it the most entertain- Rated: PG-13 ing movie since X2. Based on the best Good Boy! The film seems to drag on in the middle and the selling John The Rundown movie may be light on plot twists, but I’ll wait for Starring: Liam Starring: The Volume 2, due out in February, before passing judg- Grisham novel, it Aiken, Kevin ment on the two pieces as a whole. Rock, Seann WORTH WORTH THE $6 is a story about Nealon, Molly Fans of Chinese kung-fu, slasher films, westerns corruption in big William Scott, and Tarantino’s body of work will be thrilled. Tarantino Shannon, Matthew Rosario Dawson, may not be revolutionary, but he breaks the conventions corporations, its Broderick Christopher awfully well. If you aren’t hip to this kind of edgier influence on the Rated: PG cinema, I hear “Intolerable Cruelty” is kind of cute. Walken, Ewen justice system and Pilot, an inter- Bremner the struggle of galactic dog from Rated: PG-13 I KNOW KUNG FU - PART DEUX people’s search for the dog star Sirius, The Rock stars as justice. Hackman is on a mission to MUST-SEE DVD a bounty hunter is a lawyer who verify that dogs The Matrix Reloaded (2003) who attempts to plays dirty while failed to take over square a debt by Part two of the Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix trilogy hit Hoffman is his planet Earth. DVD shelves this week. Neo (Keanu Reeves) leads heading to the judicial adversary. Twelve-year-old the rebel humans in defending Zion, the last Cusack plays a Amazon jungle to human refuge, from their oppressive machine Owen Baker capture someone. masters. All along Neo tries to decipher the juror who is willing (Aiken) adopts The bounty hunter meaning of his nightmares and the fate of to sell himself and Hubble after a Trinity (Carrie-Ann Moss). discovers that his the verdict for the summer of work- Even if you remove the hype and recognize quarry isn’t the that “The Matrix: Reloaded” is just filler highest price. ing as a dog walk- bad guy he’d been between the first and third films, you still Weisz aids Cusack er. Pilot and Owen have a terrific movie. The special effects warned about, and in getting the most team up to pre- rarely disappoint and the Matrix-esque fight the two team up in sequences top the first film without becom- for his money. pare a group of WOA H, DUDE pursuit of riches ing self-parody. neighborhood While the Matrix films aren’t as profound stored in a mine in The Texas dogs for a visit as they’d like to be, even with the Biblical the Amazon. references packed in, they are still the best Chainsaw from their power- science-fiction to hit the big screen in Massacre ful leader, the years. No film buff should go without own- Intolerable ing this movie. Starring: Jessica Great Dane. Biel, Jonathan Cruelty 2 LAME 2 BE SERIOUS Tucker, Erica Starring: George Mystic River Leerhsen, Mike Clooney, Catherine Starring: Sean MUST-MISS MOVIE Vogel Zeta-Jones, Penn, Tim 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Rated: R Geoffrey Rush, Robbins, Kevin Ex-cop Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) is offered a clean A terrifying jour- Billy Bob Thorton, Bacon record if he can hunt down a drug lord. He’ll do it, but only if his ney into a heart of Cedric the Rated: R ex-con, underqualified childhood friend (Tyrese) can tag along! Entertainer Of course, the only way they can bring down the drug lord is by unimaginable Childhood friends racing pretty cars! darkness as five Rated: PG-13 Jimmy Marcus Along with a flimsy plot this movie delivers terrifically atro- young adults are Miles Massey (Penn), Sean cious acting performances. Tyrese seems all-too-pleased with (Clooney) is a himself on screen, as if he is waving to the camera saying “Look stranded in a rural Devine (Bacon) mom, it’s me!” “2 Fast, 2 Furious” solidifies Paul Walker’s posi- Texas town, only well-known Los and Dave Boyle tion on the throne of films for the TRL Generation. to find themselves Angeles divorce (Robbins) reunite It would be nice to say that the car chases in this movie lawyer who has redeem it, but such is not the case. The most impressive fighting for their after the death of “stunts” are so obvious in their CGI origins that it hurts. lives against a everything. While Jimmy’s daughter. Which is faster: The cars in “2 Fast, 2 Furious” or the descent chainsaw carrying Clooney’s charac- of director John Singleton’s relevance? ONE BIG CAR WRECK killer, Leatherface, ter is a man who 4 • Muaic ALLYN WEST’S MUSIC SOUND SENSE CONCERTS & PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK CRITIC’S DARLINGS EARN THIER KEEP MUNCIE East Coast Pete Relient K Of all the emotions the band could elicit, The Strokes tend to make a lot of people jealous. The band’s members are young, talented and good-looking. But the best thing is: The Strokes know how to The Blue Bottle Vic Theatre make real rock ‘n’ roll, and rightly, critics have responded by heaping piles of praise on the five Shafer Street Sunday Friday New Yorkers. But because The Strokes appear every other month on the cover of “Spin” or Scotty’s 9 p.m. 8 p.m. “NME,” the media has little drool left for the poor, arena rock fools rounding out the horrific Brewhouse pop/rock charts (Yes, I’m talking about you, Creed. You too, Saliva.). So, The Strokes are often dismissed as privileged imitators. You can now see why jealousy was introduced in the lead. Tonight Open Mic Tony Bennett Anyway. The band has dutifully silenced its critics and has transcended the mountains of hype 10:30 p.m. that threatened to plague its remarkable debut record, “Is This It?” The Speakeasy Paramount Arts The Strokes will play the Aragon Ballroom this weekend to commence a tour in support of their $3 with student Tuesday Theatre highly anticipated follow-up, “Room on Fire.” The White Stripes proved with “Elephant” what The ID, $5 without Strokes hope to achieve with “Room on Fire”: The band is vital, talented and enduring and their 10 p.m. Aurora, IL kind of rock ‘n’ roll is here to stay. 21 and over Friday Grand Opening 8 p.m. Celebration Open Mic MoTini’s The Blue Bottle Bettie Serveert Tonight Wednesday Double Door THIS IS IT Live Jazz 8 p.m. Friday 7-11 p.m. 10 p.m. CHICAGO Gary’s Kitchen Turin Brakes The Speakeasy Rufie, Fall Out Martyrs Tonight Boy Friday 10 p.m. Metro 10 p.m. 21 and over Tonight 9:15 p.m. The Strokes Dill Street UIC Pavilion ELECTRIC SIX BURNS THE HOUSE DOWN...AND THE TACO BELL, TOO Battle of the Michael Bolton Saturday The Electric Six is a Detroit-based something. No one is quite sure.