Off The Record...
Our Dystopian Lives
Brave New World
Our Dystopian Lives is powerful, speedy, lean, and melodic with great production and skilled musicianship. Brave New World immediately puts the pedal to the floor with I'll be Myself which is also the premiere video for the band as well. Life gives punchy time changes framing perfect pop melodies leading to a hard-core chorus. Dr. Arnot plays some hot guitar that should keep all the shred-starved maniacs gratified, while Quazi lets loose a barrage of jugular popping vocal daggers. This will be the year they reach a broader audience, primarily by continuing with the positive and unabashed original music that they deliver both live and on disc.
 

Read It...
One Rainy Night
Richard Laymon
Grab your raincoat and your shotgun, there's black rain a comin' in Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night. Laymon, the author of the classic horror novels Resurrection Dreams, Quake, and Bite brings on the mayhem in this twisted tale of people gone insane. The racially motivated murder of a high school boy has opened the doorway to revenge on the town of Bixby and it looks like every resident will end up as so much chop meat before the storm clouds pass. One Rainy Night is a definite page-turner with a brisk pace and plenty of hideous action.

On Video...
Snow Falling On Cedars
A murder mystery unfolds on a small island off the Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, bringing up painful memories of the Japanese-American internment during WWII. When a fisherman turns up dead, all suspicions turn to an American man of Japanese descent and the ensuing trial, covered by a reporter who is secretly in love with the accused man's wife turns into a whirl of unresolved emotional conflicts. Michael Caine captured a well-deserved Oscar for his performance.

The Buzz...

Brave New World are poised to conquer the masses with their new album, Our Dystopian Lives. The CD is fresh off the presses and available in all record stores. Look for a crazy live performance at an all ages CD/video release party June 16 at the Apollo.

A sequel to the 1990 romantic comedy that made Julia Roberts star may be in the works. Roberts and Richard Gere are in discussions for Pretty Woman 2 along with director Garry Marshall. One stalling point is the buget it would take to reunite the trio. Roberts talent would command $20 million plus 5 percent to return, which Gere would like to see matched. Marshall would need $10 million in addition to 2 percent of the gross to direct.

Christina Ricci will co-produce and star in the lead role in the big screen adaptation of the Adrenalynn comic book series. Joel Silver (The Matrix sequels) will collaborate on the project with Ricci for Warner Brothers.

According to Tunisian officials, director George Lucas will be returning to the Tunisian desert in October or early November to film segments of Star Wars: Episode II. Tunisia has served as the location for the desert planet Tatooine in the original Star Wars and last year's Star Wars: Episode I.

The USA Network has scheduled the premiere of three new action series to replace the recently canceled La Femme Nikita and Pacific Blue. The two half-hour comedies Kill! Kill! Kill! and Manhattan, AZ will begin airing July 23 in the Sunday 9 and 9:30 PM timeslots. The hour-long drama The Huntress starring Annette O'Toole will debut the following Wednesday at 10 PM.

On the official Harry Potter movie website, Warner Brothers has put out a casting call for British children aged 9 to 11 to fill the roles of the characters from J.K. Rowling's popular children's books. The site asks youngsters who look like Harry Potter to send photos and videotapes of themselves reading passages from Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

Marvel exec Avi Arad confirmed that Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus will be the villains in the upcoming Spider-Man feature film. Casting for the movie should be underway in the next 60 days.

A seven-disc, Collector's Edition version of the first season of The X-Files is now available on DVD. The season that started a cultural phenomenon ran from Sept. 10, 1993 to May 13, 1994. All 24 season one episodes, including the pilot, are available in the set. Each disc has four 48-minute shows.

A fourth Scream movie is said to be in the works. An e-mail, apparently from director Wes Craven, to the Dark Horizons Web site says he's been contacted by Dimension Films about another installment of the popular slasher film series.

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