'Hamlet 2': British comic shines when spoof doesn't
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland's Opus, all "great" movies about "great" teachers inspiring their students to achieve great things — all movies referenced lovingly by Steve Coogan's "inspiring" teacher in Hamlet 2. All are slandered mercilessly in this demented profanity of a comedy from South Park writer Pam Brady. Hamlet 2 doesn't fall "trippingly" off the tongue. A leaden third act almost kills it. But "the play's the thing" in this spoof of "inspiring" teacher films, this satire of Red State attitudes toward the arts.
Rupp Arena: From basketball to ballet?
Could Rupp Arena go from 23,000 screaming basketball fans to 2,000 ballet aficionados?
'Traitor': Terrorist thriller beats with a dark heart
Traitor is a solid, gripping, only occasionally preachy thriller built around the War on Terror. Ripped-from-the-headlines realism, top-drawer performances by Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, a dandy "ticking clock" story structure and a vast catalog of terrorist modus operandi make this as harrowing as it is timely.
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Cleveland's at the Woodford Inn: 'Nice' doesn't do it justice
Finally we have a nice restaurant, said a Versailles native who visited Cleveland’s at the Woodford Inn with me. That’s not taking a swipe at the other good restaurants in Versailles — Melissa’s Cottage Café or Railheads, among them — but Cleveland’s is lovely.
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Where they go, fans will follow
Jars of Clay's last album, Good Monsters, had a tune that made the band nervous. Oh My God was a harsh look at a world of poverty, violence and fear, and it didn't exactly let American Christians off the hook for responsibility, at the very least for their silence.
It’s a reverse Las Vegas wedding
The social scene in Lexington was alive and well last weekend. The doors of Floral Hall at The Red Mile were thrown open for the annual Black & White Ball, but first, a group of maybe 200 folks were in town from Las Vegas for, of all things, a wedding.
