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If any of you have ever taken Intro to Production, you know that this is the time of the semester when everybody is scrambling to finish (or maybe even start) their final projects. I am currently in the class, struggling to make the best movie I can with only five dollars and a couple friends.
Halloween might be over, but it is always the right time for a downright creepy first person shooter. Monolith Soft, the team behind the FPS genre classic 'No One Lives Forever,' has just released 'F.E.A.R.,' a shooter nearly as scary as it is stunning.
'2046,' the latest film from Chinese author Wong Kar-Wai, is intricately woven, gorgeously filmed, and innovatively structured. Unfortunately, it leads its audience not to care about anything happening onscreen. Worse yet, this film could have been brilliant had Kar-Wai not prevented a little thing called 'humanity' from even making a guest appearance in this oftentimes suffocating intellectual endeavor.
Battle scenes are the bread and butter of a typical war film, lending gritty authenticity as well as differentiating it from similar films. Compare and contrast the chaotic jungle combat of 'Platoon' with the thoroughly unsettling Russian roulette sequences in 'The Deer Hunter' or the sweeping, Wagner-scored helicopter raid in 'Apocalypse Now' to see how differently Vietnam was interpreted by three maverick directors.
Following up 'Age of Empires II: Age of Kings''a game that effectively set a new benchmark for the real-time strategy genre'posed a tremendous challenge for Ensemble Studios. 'Age of Mythology' was a highly successful diversion for the series, but fans of the 'Empires' series have had to wait six years for Ensemble to finally release 'Age of Empires III.'
Usually the words 'inspired by a true story' send shivers up movie-goers' spines. Most films sporting that infamous tag either take too many liberties with their source material and lose the reality of the story ('The Exorcism of Emily Rose') or feel the urge to turn a simple narrative into what they hope will be the inspirational story to end all inspirational stories (Keanu Reeves' 'Hardball' and any number of biopics). 'North Country' prefers to rely on the strength of its superb acting talent to tell a story of strength and survival.
There's nothing quite like a good zombie game to get in the Halloween spirit. Most zombie games pit you as the human action hero, armed with weapons galore on your quest to save the world from zombification. While blowing up those lumbering brain-eaters in a myriad of gruesome ways is a blast, that scenario has gotten stale.
For any diehard college football fan, waking up on a crisp fall Saturday produces a feeling comparable only to a kid running down the stairs early on Christmas morning. All those games, perfectly wrapped up and delivered by ESPN, ABC and CBS, are just waiting to be watched by their grateful recipients. While everyone's favorite is their alma mater's game, all the others can be enjoyed as well. Some even surpass expectations and become the most cherished.
At times last season, players on the Wisconsin football team (2-1 Big Ten, 5-1 overall) sounded like brainwashed drones, endlessly dispensing sound bites about how the team just needed to \go 1-0 this week."" But after Saturday's defensive meltdown in Evanston, during which the Badger defense surrendered nearly 700 yards and seven consecutive scoring drives to Northwestern in the stunning 51-48 loss, head coach Barry Alvarez was spinning a far more disturbing broken record.
EVANSTON, ILL.-As junior quarterback John Stocco's pass sailed into the hands of Wildcat safety Reggie McPherson, the small number of fans donning purple at Ryan Field in Evanston on Saturday could let out a sigh of relief.
Within \American Farm"" resides the beauty of cooperation, simplicity and hard work. The film, playing at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State St., relays the tale of Contour Meadows, a fifth-generation family farm in Richfield Springs, N. Y.
Regardless of whether you love or hate his style, Tim Burton certainly knows how to make a unique movie. A true champion of the bizarre, Burton's films range from the sympathetic \Edward Scissorhands"" to the elaborate ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,"" all united by his passion for misunderstood heroes and differences between reality and fantasy.
The use of piano in rock music has consistently held a steady following, especially with the likes of Billy Joel pushing the form. In recent years, bands such as Keane, Ben Folds Five, Maroon 5 and Coldplay have come to dominate the airwaves and iPods with their piano-infused songs of widely varying rock caliber.
Brett Bell knows the question on everyone's mind as Wisconsin prepares to host Michigan for the first time since 2001. The question you want to ask about Saturday being the first time he will face the Wolverines
After Friday night's devastating 2-1 double overtime loss to Brigham Young, Wisconsin head coach Dean Duerst stressed the need to get off to a quick start Saturday, and for one of his younger players to step up.
\We'll take a day off, and then get ready for Minnesota.""
When dolphins are flipping, twisting and leaping into the sky for the first several minutes of a movie, the production in question must be a huge gamble or a huge joke. Fortunately, \The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" is both.
Operation FALCON sounds like an episode of \Super Friends,"" but was actually the title of a week long dragnet, organized by Gonzales' Justice Department, carried out by state and local law enforcement agencies, which recently netted 10,000 fugitives nationwide. Here in Madison, the police have been making headlines in other ways-namely the Mifflin Street Block Party scheduling screw-up recently resolved. So, with friendly gendarmes making such headlines near and far, it might be interesting to consider a related phenomenon: the police presence, in terms of gross numbers and power, in the United States today.
Solutions by The State News
