Win prizes from Iron Man!
Tony Stark (Robert Downey,
Jr.), billionaire arms industrialist and genius inventor, puts on a
demonstration of his newest war weapon to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Upon his return to his airplane following the
demonstration, local rebels hit his convoy.
He
Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt star in this outrageous 80s comedy
hit! Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) is a shy, good girl. Lynne (Helen
Hunt) is a cool rock chick. When the two friends scheme to get
Janey on television's biggest after-school dance show, they find
themselves on a wild a
We have two hot DVDs to give away in our Platinum artist prize pack, featuring Keyshia Cole. From BET and Paramount Home Entertainment, Keyshia Cole The Way It Is: The Complete Second Season takes viewers past the glamorous hip-hop life for an honest look into her real home life.
How She
The Golden Compass is out on DVD today. In celebration of this fantastic fantasy film, ACED Magazine is offering our readers of copy of the two-disc DVD edition.
The sweeping family fantasy follows a curious young heroine, Lyra Belacqua, and her quest to protect the coveted Golden Compas
Based on the true story of how Charlie Wilson (Hanks), an alcoholic womanizer
and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance
fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union.
With the help of
rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, traini
If you're from Denver, maybe you've heard of Fiance. Or maybe you haven't. Fiance is a Denver-based band whose modern mainstream pop-rock (complete with the genre's requisite whiny vocals) is the sort one hears too often.
They are, for the most part, not anything particularly special with their melodies, nor their instrumentals. All-in-all, they would just be another completely unremarkable and rather annoying "sensitive" band were it not for one caveat: Patrick McGuire knows how to write a lyric.
Fiance exhibits their superior songwriting skills on such tracks as "Pretty Model's Hands", an otherwise overly ordinary and even bothersome ballad whose lyrics elevate it to the status of "actually a pretty good song". A couple of the songs are even enjoyable without the aid of their words. "Super-Soft Knife" is absolutely infectious and "I Don't Want You Anymore" is an upbeat anthem with a brilliant piano part.
As a band Fiance is bland and lacking. Despite this, however, they are capable of producing some great attention-worthy ditties. Go forth and investigate... but do so for the crown jewels in their repertoire rather than for their music as a whole.
On April 16, 2008, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival [FLIFF] and the Broward County Main Library commemorated the life and works of a true...