In 2005 the Super Bowl halftime show was performed by The Rolling Stones, whose ages one can detect only via carbon-dating methods. This year the featured band was The Who, who are so old they looked and sounded like pterodactyls on Lipitor.
In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.
It feels like a bit of undead overload to be reviewing “Zombieland” so soon after writing about the zombie flick “Pontypool” in this space, but while “Pontypool” is a nasty little thriller, “Zombieland” — despite the occasional burst of violence — is definitely a comedy.
Thought, scribbles and stolen text-message jokes regarding Super Bowl XXVLXVIXCSI, which ended in a satisfying win for an iconic American city that has endured unfathomable hardships.
A class act from beginning to end, “The Last Station” chronicles a late-in-life period of Leo Tolstoy, most of it taking place in and around the vast country estate of the then “most celebrated writer in the world.”
Can you imagine being stuck 50 feet up on a chairlift? Now imagine that everyone but you and your two friends have gone home and won’t return for four days at the earliest. Oh, and there’s a blizzard bearing down and hungry wolves licking their chops in hopes that you’re foolish enough to jump.
It was easy to get swept away in the pure romance of “Dear John” until the wheels fell off in the last act.
When a guy in the audience threw up, Adam Green knew his movie was a success.
A mixture of education carrots and sticks might be the right medicine to help end America’s shortage of primary care physicians, a doctor and writer says.
To soothe what ails his aching psyche, Barry Kerch needs no antidepressant pill or psychiatrist's couch - just a drum kit and concert stage. The prescription of live rock also aids other members of Shinedown. Their emotion-roiling songs not only please fans but serve as a catharsis for the quartet, whose personal foibles often serve as inspiration for lyrics. For them, a live concert functions as a massive support group that helps Shinedown shed angst.
