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Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
FRI 3 RED LEFTY 6-8PM
THE PIXEL PANDA
TWO TON BOA
Saw III
SAT 4 IN THE PINES
THE NEW TRAGEDIES
SUN 12 DEAD GIRLS RUIN EVERYTHING
ROYAL BLISS
THU 9 AUBREY
SUPERNAUTS - STATE BIRD
MON 13 BEYOND BLUE MONDAYS
W/ JE MEEBCRE, PAT NICHOLS & FRIENDS
METAL SCHOOL!
METAL DIS EVERY MONDAY!
SUN 5 1090 CLUB
THE PHOTO ATLAS
SAT 11 KAW VALLEY PROJECT
THE BEAUTY SHOP *SHIPWRECK* *SCOTT SCHWEIN*
FRI 10 THE DARK CIRCLES GHOST IN LIGHT
THU 9 HIS MISCHIEF
THE GLEANERS
SAT 11 BOYSKOUT ROMAN NUMERALS
TUE 14 HOT I.Q.'S
TBA
WED 8 THE BRENT BERRY BAND
MON 6 BEYOND BLUE MONDAYS
W/ JE LEE MCREE, PAT NICOLIS & FRIENDS
METAL SCHOOLI
METAL DIE EVERY MONDAY!
TUE 7 DEMOLITION DOLL ROOS
SPREAD EAGLES + THE LEGENDARY TERRORDACTYLS
Borat:
SUN 12 WOOD ROSES
RICH MATTSON & BABY GRANT JOHNSON
TO VISIT ELLE
MON 13 PORLOLO • BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA • 4TH OF AUG
MOVIE
MOVIE
You can look at strangers around you and assume that most of them are probably jerks. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, through his "loveable foreigner" archetype Borat Sagdiyev, actually goes up to those strangers, introduces himself and finds out that they, are they.
Borat, along with obese producer Azamat (Ken Davitian), goes on a trip across our country, both to report for Kazakh TV and to have sex with Pamela Anderson. There are great moments — a dinner with a genteel Southern family, hitchhiking with an RV of frat boys — but the real payoff is understanding Cohen's enviable devotion to his character. He is Borat, even in the most dangerous situations. The jokes are top drawer, and he sells every one of them. Why? Because he has balls. And in one hilarious scene with his producer, we get to see exactly what that means. If you know what's funny, this film is unmissable.
Danny Solomon
In his brilliant film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Cohen extracts a new kind of jerkness from those he encounters. It is the kind that nods its head politely in agreement whenever someone says something racist, sexist, homophobic or outright cruel. But Borat doesn't lean too hard on unmasking hatred in America (though it could). Instead, that angle just becomes one of the sources of ingenious hilarity in the film.
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
I'm going to tell you how much *Saw III* sucks.
It relies entirely on grossing out the audience for scares. When it isn't being gross, it's unbelievably boring. The plot has something to do with the Jigsaw Killer's brain tumor, which presumably will be commissioned to write *Saw IV* once it is removed.
Saw III is disturbing, but if being grossed out is what you want, you could just watch Faces of Death. Saw III also uses dingy settings and screeching feedback noise (à la Seven), two devices that are so commonplace in movies that they fail to impress. Maybe instead of building painstakingly detailed sets, filmmakers should build original scripts with endearing characters. That way, when the bomb strapped to the character's neck explodes at the end of the movie, the viewers actually care.
★★
Dennis Mersmann
ALL RATINGS ARE OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE STARS. ★★★★