Packed with high-speed car chases, video game-like homicides and a twisted, tangled and unbelievably confusing plot, Vantage Point is 90 minutes of complete insanity. The action scenes are over the top, the concept is overcomplicated and the acting is overdramatic. Basically, Vantage Point is an action movie lover's dream.
Let's face it: Will Ferrell is funny. No matter how much you hate his "laugh at my out of shape, hopelessly hairy and perpetually naked body" brand of humor, his latest venture, FunnyorDie.com, is perfect for people who fall into the "I really dislike anything with Will Ferrell in it" group, because he appears on so little of the website.
Part of me died when the sweater-clad, geek-rocking Weezer I once knew released its disastrous power-pop monster, Make Believe , in 2005. But on his latest solo album, frontman Rivers Cuomo has dusted off some decade-old demos and has brought me back to life.
There are a lot of ways to describe the sounds of the Mars Volta. Fans and critics place the band somewhere between the galaxies of progressive and experimental rock music, with some hints of jazz-funk and Latin. Its songs are spastic, aggressive audio assaults combining up-tempo drums and wailing guitars, usually in a good way. But on its latest album release, The Bedlam in Goliath, something has gone wrong.
