MOVIE
Beerfest
Having loved "Super Troopers," another Broken Lizard comedy, I desperately wanted to love "Beerfest." Set at an international drinking competition, the well of classic booze-joke opportunities seemed deeper than an emband frontman. Unfortunately, the film — like the frontman — turned out to be empty.
The movie's downfall comes from the players' misguided attempt to create original characters. The formula that worked so well in "Super Troopers" (i.e. four badasses and a total loser), has been altered with terrible results. Even loads of dick jokes and several instances of gratuitous nudity can't keep "Beer Fest" from being a disappointment. Next time you want to see classic drinking humor, save yourself five bucks and follow me around while I'm drunk.
"Beerfest" opens well enough, when the Wolfhouse brothers (Eric Stolhanske and Paul Soter),lifelong drinkers, are sent to spread the ashes of their recently departed grandfather at Oktoberfest. There, they stumble upon an ancient competition of drinking games and are humiliated by the perennially victorious German team. The guys, set to avenge their pummeling, put together a formal drinking team (the rest of the comedy group Broken Lizard) and train themselves in the drinking arts in preparation for the final showdown.
Rated:R
110 minutes
Danny Solomon
Dark Light Daybreak MUSIC
Now Its Overheard
If bands were allowed to run for public office (a startlingly excellent idea in my opinion), Now It's Overheard would surely top the "indie rock" ticket. Check the stats: NIO is from a town (Athens, Ga.) and on a label (Saddle Creek) that define whatever "indie rock" is currently supposed to mean.
tracks (think P.E.M., sans Stipe and pro Bono, produced by Brian Eno). The album's opener is also its best: On "Let the Sirens Rest" LeMaster pairs big hooks with bigger imagery — storms, mountains, the ocean — all wrapped up in layers of vocal overdubs and electronic knickknacks.
On the band's latest,"Dark Light Daybreak,"producer-cumfrontman Andy LeMaster returns with 10 sonically arresting, epic
This November, vote NIO.
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