Out Today: Of Montreal
OF MONTREALFalse Priest(Polyvinyl) False Priest’s cover art is a grotesque mess, which sorta sums up Of Montreal’s music. The revolving collective’s tenth album comes down from the alter-ego orgies of 2008’s Skeletal Lamping, with lots of hate (“Go away/You’re a bad thing/Useless thing”) and incoherence (“I can’t cope with such an abstract blackmail domination spasm”)…
Out Today: Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses
RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSESJunky Star(Lost Highway) There’s a timeless quality to Ryan Bingham’s best songs that drops them in the middle of the 1940s, 1970s, or 2000s. It’s one of the reasons he won an Oscar this year for “The Weary Kind,” his plaintive theme from Crazy Heart. He’s also a sharp songwriter.…
Out Today: Interpol
INTERPOLInterpol(Matador) By this point, there’s not much to distinguish one Interpol album from another. Since their 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, the dapper New Yorkers have combined ’80s post-punk reservation with modern indie-rock disconnection. Their fourth album — self-titled, so it’s supposed to herald some big changes after 2007’s major-label bomb, Our Love…
You Should Check Out the Music Fest in Tremont on Saturday
If you don’t have anything to do on Saturday, you should go the Lot music festival happening in the lot next to the South Side in Tremont. Even if you do have something to do, you should change your plans and go anyway. Lots of cool local bands will be performing at the day-long fest,…
Virginia Leonard, Drunken Brawler, Kicks Ass, Takes Names
Drunk? Who’s Drunk? And the award for best drunken backyard performance of the year goes to . . . drum roll . . . Lorain’s own Virginia Leonard. According to WEWS, the 31-year-old woman went on an epic booze binge that included public disruptions, scuffles with police and crotch shots. The station reports that Leonard…
Justice For Sale in Ohio Supreme Court
Expensive robes. The state of Ohio, already celebrating its Lifetime Achievement Award for corruption, has garnered another prestigious accolade: We’re in the high-rent district when it comes to purchasing judges. A new report from New York University Law School, titled “The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2000-2009: Decade of Change,” comes to the depressing conclusion…
Home in Ashtabula Explodes (Update)
Thankfully no one was home at the time of the explosion. Update: Well, this was no gas leak accident. Investigators have ruled that the explosion that leveled this house in Ashtabula County was arson. 19 Action News reports that the homeowner was present at the time of the explosion and received treatment for undisclosed injuries.…
Alfredo Alicia Stabbed Brother Over $6
Pick a knife or give me my $6, your choice. 43 year-old Alfredo Alicia accosted his brother, Angel Alicea. He had beef. He was angry. What was the problem? Apparently his 44-year-old brother owed him $6. Alfredo must have really wanted that $6 because when Angel couldn’t produce his pittance of a debt, Alfredo stabbed…
David Giffels Not Working on Those New ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ Episodes, Is Working on New Book
Beavis and Butt-head won’t be involved in Giffels’ new work. First the bad news for Akron’s David Giffels, the former Beacon Journal columnist, Pulitzer nominee, and Beavis and Butt-head writer: He hasn’t been asked to take part in the new Beavis and Butt-head episodes. So he’ll continue teaching at the University of Akron and writing…
Ohio Seizes 44,000 Pounds of Weed
Wonder if they encountered any plants this big? The end of summer can only mean one thing: Marijuana-killing season is upon us. State Attorney General Richard Cordray touts the annual eradication of Ohio’s pot crop through the efforts of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, which operates out of his office. The slaughter…
This Just In: Cleveland Concert Announcements
A Place to Bury Strangers: coming to the Grog Shop Sam Adams/the Forties : Sun., Sept. 5. The Kent Stage. Attack Attack/Pierce the Veil/Of Mice and Men/In Fear and Faith: Thu., Nov. 11, 8 p.m. House of Blues. Patrizio Baunner: Thu., Sept. 23. The Kent Stage. Black House Sound: Fri., Oct. 22, 9 p.m., Ages…
Suburban Inn: Cuyahoga County’s Worst Smoking Ban Violator
Depressing sign. There are bars smokers speak about in hushed tones, gin joints and dives and dumps they hold in reverence for when they want a puff with their sip. For the nicotine-addled, the smell of cigarette smoke lingering around a bar brings back fond memories when you could light up over your Coors Light.…
Out Today: Katy Perry
Katy PerryTeenage Dream(Capitol) Katy Perry’s life is all cotton-candy kisses, fireworks on the beach, and drunken Friday nights. And throughout her second album, she sings about the fun she’s having living it up with her BFFs. (Market crisis? Oil spills? What war?) Teenage Dream is pure escapism, and the perky Perry sells it hard here.…
BBB Says Cheap Computer Offer Too Good To Be True
“B” for Bad Offer. This guy is happy with his operating system, but says the RAM is lacking. Ruth Sloan, a sweet 83-year-old woman, was flipping through her Plain Dealer recently when she spotted a full page ad that was right up her alley. Sprawled across the page was an offer for laptop computers on…
Frank Dolezal’s Name Cleared in Torso Murders
Dolezal: Guilty until proven innocent, recently. The Torso Murders — Cleveland’s little corner of the greater American serial killer mythology — remain unsolved to this day. Some 70 years later, we’ll likely never get a clear snapshot of who decapitated and gutted 12 people in the 1930s, but thanks to some new gumshoe work, we…
19 Action News Discovers Cougar Trend
On what must have been a very, very slow news day in Cleveland last week, 19 Action News decided to explore the cougar trend in Cleveland and break it down for the dozen or so viewers who were unaware of it before. Is it true? Is it a fad? Is this breaking news? Are there…
Family of Sladjana Vidovic, 16-Year-Old Who Committed Suicide, Suing Mentor Schools
On October 2, 2008, 16-year-old Sladjana Vidovic was found by her sister. Vidovic was dead, having committed suicide by hanging herself out of her bedroom window. In her suicide note, the Bosnian native said that she was constantly bullied at school. A lawsuit recently filed by her family claims that officials at Mentor Schools ignored…
Afternoon Brew: Canton’s Ties to Famous UFO, Girl Scout Cookie Money Missing, Traffic Tickets Up in Cuyahoga County, and the Renegade Parish
We can’t read the word ‘flock’ without thinking of this. Good afternoon, Cleveland. Here’s some stuff to read while you get ready for your fantasy football draft. — Was the Roswell UFO tested at the Timken plant in Ohio? That was the claim of a former worker. Material from the craft was allegedly trucked across…
Plain Dealer Claims Frank Russo Threatened Publisher Terrance Egger
Frank Russo really doesn’t know how to stay out of the news. County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora has repeatedly and earnestly called out the Plain Dealer during meetings and in front of the media for, as he believes, having an unfair grudge against him and other embattled politicians in Cuyahoga County. It’s a natural reaction when…
Michael Ian Black Goes Off on Obama Hater During Columbus Show
He looks so calm and nice. Don’t let that fool you. He’ll yell at you, then apologize. As Michael Ian Black explains on his blog, sometime during a show Saturday night in Columbus a man in the crowd yelled, “Heil Hitler,” while Black was explaining his love for President Obama. This did not sit well…
Naked Napping Man Run Over, Parked On By Car
You gotta use this picture any time you have a chance, right? We can’t do better than the lede from the Lorain Morning Journal, so here it is: A naked and intoxicated Pennsylvania man was accidentally run over and trapped underneath a car while sleeping in an alley Wednesday night, according to Lorain police. Let’s…
Tom Ganley Clumsily Clarifies Position on Obama’s Religious Beliefs
Tom Ganley: Dumbass. Tom Ganley is a Republican fighting for a house seat in Ohio’s 13th district. In an interview with Roll Call recently, he was asked whether he believes President Obama is a Muslim. Ya know, because that’s essential information for his constituents to have. Anyway, Ganley’s answer was bizarre. He said, “I don’t…
If Paul Hoynes’ Lovey-Dovey Tweets Seem Weird, It’s Because He’s Really Texting His Wife
Twitter can be confusing. All technology can be confusing actually. And even it’s not confusing, there’s inevitably going to be unintended mistakes. Everyone’s done the “reply all” by accident at least once. You’ve texted someone else instead of the desired recipient, and for humor’s sake, hopefully you’ve sent something wildly inappropriate. It happens. Which brings…
Five Guys beats In-N-Out in Burger Rankings
Don’t look so sad, second place isn’t that bad. You’ve probably had one of these conversations at least once in your life: You get a buddy who hits the West Coast, comes back, and rattles on nonstop about In-N-Out Burger, the golden calf of eternally out-of-town fast food joints. “If only we had an In-N-Out…
Cleveland to Pimp Out Your Recycling Container
Nice cans, but can they rat you out to the city? You might not want to read on if you’re one of those good government types who can’t stand to read about city officials dumping scarce funding into innovative yet somewhat superfluous sounding programs. Just a warning. According to the PD, this week Cleveland’s council…
Mark Arend, Music Fan, Committed Over Loud Music
This is obviously not the Lorain pier. Mark Arend loves to rock out. He loves to rock and he loves to rock in his red Mustang. When he’s rockin’, he likes to head over to the Lorain pier, ease the engine, and blow out the speakers. And now that behavior has landed him in the…
Sam Mazola’s Bear Kills Man
This bear is completely harmless, until he is harmful. Brent Kandra, the worker who was mauled on Thursday by a bear owned by Sam Mazola at Mazola’s Columbia Station home, has died. It’s the latest in a long string of legal and safety issues Mazola has faced with the wild animals — lions, tigers, and…
What to Do Tonight: Zac Brown Band
Fried, chicken and otherwise It isn’t easy to label the Zac Brown Band. The laidback Atlanta-based group plays a mix of country, Caribbean, reggae, and bluegrass music. The band’s shows are playful, loose, and unpredictable (check out its recent DVD and CD, Pass the Jar: Live From the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, for proof).…
Kings of Leon Continue to Prove They’re Huge Assholes
We’d poop on them too After walking offstage during a concert last month after being hit with pigeon poop, major douchebags Kings of Leon continue to fight for the title of Music’s Biggest Assholes. The latest bid by the Southern rockers (who’ll tell you time and time again about how they were raised in a…
Shooting Blanks
The disappointing, tonally discordant artificial insemination romantic comedy The Switch (by the Blades of Glory directing team of Josh Gordon and Will Speck) shoots more blanks than laughs. Jason Bateman plays a neurotic, self-absorbed Manhattanite (is there any other kind?) whose life is turned upside down when he discovers that he’s the biological dad of…
Cleaning House
This sequel to the minor 2005 hit based on Christiana Brand’s kid-lit series — about a Mary Poppins-like nanny who looks a bit like one of Macbeth’s witches — is mildly charming and passably entertaining. But instead of taking place in Victorian England like the previous movie, the action here picks up in World War…
Your Nail Stylist is Probably the Victim of Human Trafficking
Working on Kim Kardashian’s feet has to be considered slavery. If you’ve been putting off that manicure, you might want to get it soon, because it looks like nail salons around Ohio are the subject of a human trafficking investigation. Everyone in your salon of Asian descent? Then perhaps some of the workers are enduring…
Ohio Church and Stripclub Mend Fences; Hearts to Go With Jesus, Bodies With the Foxhole (UPDATE)
These ladies lecture strippers on Jesus. Update: Sadly, the face-to-face meeting between Pastor Dunfee and Foxhole owner Tommy George has failed to bridge the gap between the two parties. Dunfee claims the only solution is for George to shut down and that he’ll have his flock protesting in the Foxhole parking lot until that happens.…
Look! Up in the Sky! It’s … Taylor Swift?
We love Taylor Swift. We love comic books. But does that mean we’re gonna be rushing to Carol & John’s Comic Book Shop when the Taylor Swift comic book comes out next Wednesday? Probably not. Unless Taylor Swift suits up in spandex, a cape and mask, and rides around in a supersonic jet with a…
Kenneth Freeman Had Missing Teens in His Shed According to Police
Kenneth Freeman doesn’t look like the kind of guy to have underage kids in his shed. Not at all. The story behind that headline could be very innocent or even worse than it sounds depending on what police find. Here’s what they know so far: Cops in Lorain got a tip about missing children and…
“LeBron James is a Bitch” Song by Mike Polk
Mike Polk, purveyor of those viral Cleveland tourism videos and all-around funny guy, played a special song recently at Brothers Lounge. “LeBron James is a Bitch”, is the title. Quite beautiful, actually. And there’s some hilarious lines in there, including the one about crackdealers in Akron missing Gloria. Listen and enjoy.
“LeBron James is a Bitch” Song by Mike Polk
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Steve Canepa, Charles Edwards Indicted in Connection With Cuyahoga County Corruption Investigation
If you work in government in Cuyahoga County, you’re probably being indicted. Another day, another domino. In this case, two dominoes actually. According to reports, Steven Canepa, the former business manager for Maple Heights City Schools, and Charles Edwards, owner of C. Edwards Landscaping Inc., were charged for allegedly defrauding the Maple Heights school district…
The Best Video You’ll See Today
The totally awesome Christopher Walken reads Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” Brilliant. Follow us on Twitter: @clescenemusic
Old Dude Who Looks Like a Lady Falls Offstage … Again
Aerosmith — back when they could walk without falling over Remember when Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler fell offstage at a concert last year? Of course you do. The singer broke some bones or something and had to cancel his band’s big summer tour, which started a pissy and very public feud with his guitarist. Apparently he’s…
President Obama Knows How to Spell O-H-I-O
When in Columbus… President Obama visited with the Weithman family in Ohio yesterday. After tackling the tough issues — whether the Buckeyes will unleash Pryor’s passing attack more this season, whether red or gray is a better color for Tressel’s sweater vest, etc. —and talking about the nation, the President provided the O in O-H-I-O.…
President Obama Knows How to Spell O-H-I-O
When in Columbus… President Obama visited with the Weithman family in Ohio yesterday. After tackling the tough issues — whether the Buckeyes will unleash Pryor’s passing attack more this season, whether red or gray is a better color for Tressel’s sweater vest, etc. —and talking about the nation, the President provided the O in O-H-I-O.…
Bicyclist Arrested for Drinking While Biking, Possession of Crack Pipe
A model bicyclist. A couple weeks ago we featured the Bicyclists Guide to Cleveland, the authoritative how-to for biking in our great town. Looks like someone read it and took our advice. Hell, this man went above and beyond in his cycling adventures, mixing in drugs and alcohol to the already perilous activity of traversing…
Concert Review: Slayer/Megadeth at Time Warner Ampitheater
Devotion. And stupidity. The Slayer/Megadeth American Carnage Tour tore through Time Warner Amphitheater last night, taking everybody in attendance a couple decades back in metal time. The tour was set to commemorate the 20th anniversaries of Megadeth’s fourth album, Rust in Peace, and Slayer’s Seasons in the Abyss. Noodling guitar solos were ripe for the…
Group Calls for Resignation of Frank Russo, Delivers Letter on Behalf of Cuyahoga County
A small group of concerned citizens gathered on the steps of the County Administration Building today to protest Frank Russo and call for his immediate resignation as auditor.According to 19 Action News, the group delivered this letter to the embattled politician: Mr. Russo, We, people of Cuyahoga County and taxpayers, formally request your immediate resignation…
Phantom of the Opera Ending 18 Years on the Road With Final Shows in Cleveland
Everything is better in German. If you feel like Phantom of the Opera has been touring forever, you’d be partially right. It’s been 18 years since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s creation hit the road, covering 73 cities and putting in some 7,000 performances. That’s 7000 shows that girlfriends loved while boyfriends napped on the shoulder of…
Rock Hall Gives Props to the Fat Man
Fats —er, we mean Big-Boned— Domino We’re truly excited about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s latest American Music Masters series. Well, at least as excited as we can get about these sorta stuffy things. After the past couple years’ obvious and ho-hum tributes, this year’s event will honor Fats Domino and…
John Mayer Promises to Wear Cavs Jersey at Miami Concert
John Mayer played Blossom recently and wore a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey at some point. He didn’t stop with the aesthetic backing of the Forest City, additionally claiming that in Miami, the last stop on his current tour, he will wear the Cavs jersey on stage. You know, we still think John Mayer’s a douchenozzle, but…
John Mayer Promises to Wear Cavs Jersey at Miami Concert
John Mayer played Blossom recently and wore a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey at some point. He didn’t stop with the aesthetic backing of the Forest City, additionally claiming that in Miami, the last stop on his current tour, he will wear the Cavs jersey on stage. You know, we still think John Mayer’s a douchenozzle, but…
John Mayer Promises to Wear Cavs Jersey at Miami Concert
John Mayer played Blossom recently and wore a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey at some point. He didn’t stop with the aesthetic backing of the Forest City, additionally claiming that in Miami, the last stop on his current tour, he will wear the Cavs jersey on stage. You know, we still think John Mayer’s a douchenozzle, but…
Parma is Making Serious Bank off Traffic Camera Tickets
Welcome to Parma, you just got a speeding ticket. As much as drivers care to bitch about traffic camera tickets, cities have a hard time caving to the concerns of citizens when they watch their coffers fill up with dough thanks to hefty fines levied for speeders caught on traffic cameras. Case in point: Parma,…
Cortez “the Killer” Williamson, Ponytail-Puller, Convicted of Murder
Only idiots would do this while carrying a gun. Do you remember those classic kindergarten mating rituals, the kick-to-the-shins, the gentle push, the finger-in-the-eye that sent the not-so-subtle message you were interested? One Cleveland man obviously had not graduated into higher forms of social intercourse when he pulled his date’s ponytail at a bar this…
39,000 Gallons of Hydrochloric Acid Spilled On Ohio Turnpike
Not what you want to see on the side of the road. Truck drivers crash and whatever loads they’re hauling spill onto the roadway. This is common enough. Often, if we’re lucky, they’re carrying marshmallows or beer or chickens or firecrackers — anything that will lend the story a humorous bent. Who doesn’t want to…
Back Into the Abyss
On this summer’s American Carnage tour, two of the biggest old-school thrash bands are performing classic albums from 1990. Megadeth are playing the guitar landmark Rust in Peace, and Slayer are tearing through all of Seasons in the Abyss, an album that helped pave the way for other classic records — including Jeff Buckley’s debut…
Cleared For Landing
Ever since the days when modern-rock radio played “Plush” three times an hour, fans have heard the story about how Stone Temple Pilots got their name. “Stone Temple Pilots doesn’t mean anything,” claimed frontman Scott Weiland; he and his bandmates simply liked the initials “STP.” At the time, it was an innocuous factoid, easily ranking…
Good Government Gone Bad?
Throw the bums out! It’s a cry heard across the political spectrum when voters aren’t happy with their elected officials. Last year in Cuyahoga County, the refrain led to Issue 6 and a new charter government. In the early ’90s, it brought us legislative term limits in Ohio and more than a dozen other states.…
What’s On Stage This Week?
Personals Uncut: The New York Edition: A comedic view of the online dating world written, directed, and produced by Clevelander Jennifer Griffin. 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, August 21, at Kennedy’s at Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Avenue. Tickets: $15; call 216-241-6000 or visit personalsuncut.com. The Phantom of the Opera — A phantom man in a…
Strange Daze
When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors begins with a home movie of Jim Morrison driving a car, listening to the radio. The blaring psychedelic music is interrupted for breaking news: The Doors’ frontman was found dead of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 27. That’s the setup, and once this…
CD Review: DIE ANTWOORD
Between the two white South African rappers who make up Die Antwoord, there are maybe a dozen words you’ll be able to make out on their debut record. Half of their rhymes are in English, but good luck figuring out what Ninja (who sports a Vanilla Ice haircut) and Yo-Landi Vi$$er (she has a mullet)…
CD Review: RAY LAMONTAGNE AND THE PARIAH DOGS
Singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne gives his backing band equal billing on his fourth album, God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise, his first without longtime collaborator Ethan Johns. And the Pariah Dogs earn the honor in the extended instrumental introduction to the opener “Repo Man,” which they fill with glowing, moody textures. They build a downright…
CD Review: Lissie
It’s tough to figure out where Lissie Maurus’ heart and sound lie. Is she a midwestern girl born and raised in Illinois or a transplanted Californian? Is the DIY folk pop on last year’s debut EP her thing, or is it the grandiose pop on her first full-length? Unlike the sultry folk Lissie displayed on…
CD Review: John Mellencamp
No Better Than This is steeped in musical history. Mellencamp and producer T Bone Burnett recorded the album at landmark places around the country: in a Baptist church in Georgia, in Memphis’ famous studios, and in San Antonio’s Gunter Hotel, where bluesman Robert Johnson held his first recording session. Stripped-down songs like “Right Behind Me”…
Get Out!
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 BOOK SIGNING Dave Mustaine: Rehabbed Rocker Megadeth main man and short-time Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine has fallen out with his share of musicians in the metal world. That much is clear in Joel McIver’s 2009 book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, which named Mustaine Numero Uno, and in doing so said “This…
Dead Man Walking
Although it wasn’t written by the late Horton Foote, first-time director Aaron Schneider’s Get Low has many of the stylistic earmarks — as well as the same deliberate pace — of early ’80s Foote adaptations The Trip to Bountiful, 1918, On Valentine’s Day, and Tender Mercies, which won Foote his second screenwriting Oscar. (The first…
The Fish That Saved Cleveland
In a dark corridor in the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Primate, Cat, and Aquatics Building, past the chattering monkeys and the languidly beautiful leopards, gunmetal gray sharks glide back and forth behind a wall of glass. A gaggle of children stand close to the window as zookeeper Geoff Hall points out the different kinds of sharks…
At the Arthouses This Week
Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomThe third-best Indiana Jones movie (faint praise, we know), and the follow-up to the great Raiders of the Lost Ark, is the reason we now have the PG-13 rating. It’s filled with cool action sequences (the bridge scene still makes me queasy), a beating heart ripped out of a…
Bites: Istanbul Grill in Tremont
It’s still early for Istanbul Grill (2505 Professor Ave., 216-298-4450, grillistanbul.com), a new Turkish restaurant in Tremont. The eatery is so new, in fact, that the liquor license just arrived, cold beer has not, and staffers are still attending to minor construction projects. That said, the place is a welcome addition to the neighborhood. Located…
We Get Mail
GREEDY, UNCARING AMISH You are to be commended for running the article “Breeding Contempt” [July 21, 2010]. The reason these greedy, uncaring, people — and it’s not just the Amish, but they are certainly among the greatest offenders — get away with abusing and exploiting dogs is that relatively few people know the extent of…
Art is Pretty, Go See Some
What remains “I think that the world is perceived in flickering glimpses out of the corner of one’s eye,” writes Michael Benjamin. “Like the ghostly figure that appears (barely) in a time exposure photograph, a fleeting image as momentary as a flash card.” The painter seems to view painting as a meditative retreat from his…
You Got Country in My Punk!
The Whiskey Daredevils have just released their seventh album, Legends of Country Punk. The mostly acoustic disc includes originals, cover songs, and even a long-forgotten track by the Cowslingers, which Daredevils frontman Greg Miller used to lead back in the day. Former Cowslinger guitarist Bobby Latina plays on a few tracks. “These sessions were meant…
Holy Mackerel
I traveled to Kasai, a Japanese restaurant nearly an hour away, on the recommendation of a chef. I went back less than a month later not because I had to, but because I wanted to. And I’ll go back again just as soon as I work off those sizable sushi tabs. “Where are you going?”…
Hanson’s Coming to Town
Hanson/Rooney The three Hanson brothers have really grown up in the 13 years since “MMMBop” made them teen stars. Their latest album, Shout It Out, balances the hooky pop of their breakthrough with the blue-eyed soul they’ve been playing ever since. Singer Taylor’s voice has taken on a grown-up rasp over the years, so while…
Stay In
TOP PICK — DVD Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Sony) One of the ’00s best movies finally comes to Blu-ray, and the awesome set pieces — characters gliding across treetops, burly kung-fu guys getting their asses kicked by a girl — have never looked better. Extras detail the movie’s glorious soundtrack and costumes. Hard to believe…
Film Capsules From A to Z
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (PG) — This hyper kiddie flick has the best opening title sequence going right now: a terrific spoof of James Bond-style credit montages, with lots of feline silhouettes and iconic balls of yarn, etc. And there’s a guilty-pleasure closing-credit crawl of YouTube lolcats and canine shenanigans. In…
