by Anais Mitchell The Brightness MUSIC
When first picked up Anais Mitchell's newest album, The Brightness. I saw that it was released on Ai Difano's label, Righteynt Babe Records. I thought this could also go the way of Righteynt Babe artist Andrew Bird whimily, he bassel wail Unfortunely, Michael resembles the latter
This album is full of intricate finger picking and crooning that made me feel as though Anais and her fans are part of that special breed of women who have an affinity for beads, incense and large wooden things to hang on their walls.
Aside from the music, her
voice is strange. Now, while I usually ready to tote the horns of the Joanna Newsworms, CoCo Roses and Raney,Newws of the world. I find this one hard to understand, in context that it runs for it.
As for her lyrics, I found them preachy and pretentious, especially "Song of the Magi," in which she talks with a baby Jesus about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She explains how to evoke some sentimentality by my Appalachian boyhood on "Sheenandoah."
★★★
Hannibal Rising
In Hannibal Rising, writer Thomas Harris and director Peter Webster set out to answer the question. How did Hannibal become so smart, so charismatic, so evil?
They begin in 1940 Europe, where young Hannibal's family is murdered by the Nazis — his younger sister is even eaten by group of stranded 55 soldiers. Years later, a teenaged Hannibal (Gaspard Ullé) pulls up a knife and murders his revenge on the cannibals, developing an abnormal appetite in the process.
As a film, *Hannibal Rising* is predictable, loaded with cliched dialogue, insulting to the audience's intelligence and monumentally boring. As a piece in the Hannibal Lector canon, it's a different atrotery.
With other infinite elements, part of the brilliance of the *Science of the Lamb* was the mystery surrounding Dr. Lector He was feared, respected and strangely likable. Here, the mystery falls away like the throught hole of a window, revealing more than a banal, monotonous medical student.
With any luck, this will be the last gap of the lukuster Silence sequels, because it can't image a film that has a worse tone in viewers' mouths.
Rated R 117 minutes
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