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Soda Stereo: The Sound and the Fury

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Photo: Courtesy Felip Rabat

One die-hard Soda Stereo fan wants you to relive the magic of hearing
the Argentine rock gods reunited for an unforgettable night—one of their three
(you read right: only three!) Stateside appearances. The band played two
concerts in Miami this week and one in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Cerati and the boys are now headed to Peru, before going back home to
wrap up the historic 2007 tour in Cordoba and Buenos Aires.

By Winston Romero

Your Oscars Cheat Sheet: Reviews of All Five Best Picture Nominees

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Still haven't seen this year's Oscar nominees for Best
Picture? Shame on you! Luckily, we've come up with the perfect cheat-sheet so
you won't embarass yourself in front of your movie-buff friends. Here are our reviews of the films nominated for Best Picture:

Juno

No Country for Old Men

Atonement

There Will Be Blood

Michael Clayton

Movie Review: <i>Atonement</i>

The first half of Ian McEwan's novel, on which this movie is based, is such a
tour de force about the power of language, imagination and jealousy, that
reading it, you hope whoever does the inevitable film version will get it right.
And director Joe Wright does. Set during a single day at an English country
mansion in 1930s, that crucial scene centers around a young girl (newcomer
Saoirse Ronan) who witnesses something her preteen hormones just don't
understand: she sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and the

Movie Review: <i>No Country for Old Men</i>

We love us some Coen Brothers, but after their last three movies—"Intolerable
Cruelty, "The Ladykillers" and "The Man Who Wasn't There,"—even we were starting
to wonder when the idiosyncratic directors would return to form. Brutal,
truthful and unrelenting for its full running time, "No Country for Old
Men,"
is that return to form, in a big way.

Movie Review: <i>There Will Be Blood</i>

The first 10 or so minutes of the ambitious, ultimately unsatisfying "There
Will be Blood," are wordless, and brilliant. A man (Daniel Day Lewis),
standing alone at the bottom of a dark, vertical mine shaft carved out of the
ground, painstakingly chisels away at the walls in search of precious metals. He
climbs out, falls and injures himself, and with astonishing singlemindedness,
clambers out and crawls away, then repeats that kind of backbreaking work as one
of many workers at an oil shaft. That opening sequence is pretty much all you

Movie Review: <i>Juno</i>

During the first 10 minutes of Juno, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page)
looks like she's doing an impression of Napoleon Dynamite, the nerdy hero of
Jared Hess's 2004 cult-comedy hit starring John Heder. Both Juno and Napoleon
are socially inept, small-town misfits whose lingua franca has spawned
imitators all around the world. Like the infamous Napoleon, Juno is an off-beat
character who speaks in her own dialect, avoids the "in-crowd" and even has her
own sidekick (no, not Pedro) a peer named Leah (charming newcomer Olivia
Thirlby
).

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