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Show "-Daily Utah Chronicle Thursday, January 13,2005 Movies Opening on 1/14/05 lett Johansson. It's enough to make any middle-aged man reach for the hair dye. (PG-13) Directed by Rob Bowman It's spelled with a "K" in- See review. stead of a "C," so you know "Coach Carter" it'll be hip—or at least try to be. Jennifer Garner reprises Directed by Thomas Carter the bellybutton assassin she Another entry in the "Danplayed in 2003's "Daredevil." gerous-Poet-Hoosier-Night Ben Affleck is nowhere to be Lights" genre of inspirafound—he's off to bigger and tional coaches and teachers. better things. Right? Right? This time around, Samuel Anyone? (PG-13) L. Jackson is the tough-love basketball coach who places grades over playing time. "In Good Company" Let's hope he takes the kids Directed by Paul Weitz The 26-year-old Topher to Big Kahuna so he can say, Grace is the new boss of 51- "That is one tasty burger!" year-old Dennis Quaid in this (PG-13) slice of corporate American life. Not only does the kid "Racing Stripes" take the old man's job, but he Directed by Frederik Du also romances his sexy teen- Chau age daughter played by ScarLord help us. I thought the "Elektra" talking-animal genre died with "Cats and Dogs." Here we get the "Seabiscuit" version, complete with a pair of wise-cracking, assgassing flies. If you've seen the preview and you still want to see the whole thing, please get medical help right away. (PG) open weeks ago. Whoops. Here it is now. Creepy Josh Lucas stalks his young nephews through Southern Gothic. (R) "Works Along the Wasatch Front" The Utah Film and Video Center on 20 S. West Temple offers up another of then"House of Flying Daggers" monthly showcases of movies from local artists. It's 89 minDirected by Zhang Yimou More poetic martial arts utes of the most unpredictable from the director who brought stuff you'll ever see outside us "Hero." Hopefully this one Sundance. has a more cheerful message Check out their website at than "Succumb to the Man or www.ufvc.org for a rundown Die." (PG-13) of Friday night's program. The show starts at 8 p.m. and runs for one night only! (Un"Undertow" Directed by David Gordon rated, but contains decidedly adult material.) Green Yeah, so we said this would Compiled by Aaron Allen HE FELLOWSHIP OF THE CALENDAR until March 19. Tickets are o n l y $ 1 2 , which we think is pretty cheap in terms of satisfying lifelong dreams. For more information, call Jan. 13 Thursday It's not that Calendar has anything against short people-we just have something against little dwarfs with big, hairy feet. Really: Who in the hell would trust a 3-foot-2-inch weirdo with a Jew-fro and sympathetic leanings towards past-theirprime junkie-goblins from some place called "Middle Earth" anyway? We won't bite. Even more, we're heading over to the D e s e r t S t a r Theater (4861 S. State Street in Murray) to catch their N i g h t t o n i g h t . Meanwhile, the U-favored piano bar C a b a n a Club a plethora of rehab-ready shows to fuel our habits, beginning with (31 E. 4 0 0 South) and Trolley The O.C. at 7 p.m. and "North Shore's" season finale (as In, "finally, out of it's misery...for now") at 8 p.m., both on FOX. Square's hidden treasure, G r e e n the Desert Star Theater at 266-2620. Street (602 E. 500 South) Speaking of spankings, the highranking officials here at Calendar would like to put out a public-service announcement for all those freshmen dormers who still haven't learned an important lesson: that a morning fifth of Jack Daniels won't help get you to class quite as well as the cup of joe will. A better idea? Save it until 7 p . m . t o n i g h t when W h i s k e y W a k e will take the Really, there are worse addictions to feed on a lovely Thursday night. For example, television. Or more specifically, melt-it-up-and-mainline-it-TV (as opposed to "Must See TV"). Indeed, Thursdays bring us are both having College N i g h t . stage at Kilby Court (741 S. 3 3 0 West) with Less People, More Robots, The Furies and The Loiter Cognition. Tickets are $5 at the door. BioLife parody of "The Lord of the Rings," titled, "Kicking The Hobbft: Bored of the Rings." (Look us in the eye and tell us with all the honesty you can muster that you've never, ever wanted to kick a hobbit. Can't do it, can you? See?) Performances start at 7 p.m. nightly and will run COMPANY continued from page 4 "In Good Company" has the ingredients of a cookie-cutter sitcom, but it goes off in interesting and unpredictable directions. It's inevitable that Carter and Alex will meet and collide like the world's horniest atoms. It's also inevitable that the ice will melt between Carter and Dan and they'll work together to land that really difficult client. The way those storylines work out, however, is both realistic and touching—the characters act and react like normal human beings would, not like puppets of the plot. What could have been a simplistic romantic-comedy, or even a wicked corporate satire, instead goes the route of self-discovery (for better or worse). Like the selfish Hugh Grant character in "About a Boy," Carter must decide what his priorities really are and what he plans to do about it. If the movie falls short of greatness (or even really goodness), it's because it's content with being merely pleasant. "In Good Company" is just that—good company that stays in line. Weitz sets his story in the world of corporate America, but he doesn't mine it for much humor or canny insight (see "Office Space" for a mine well dug). In fact, the whole corporate fagade is just that—a facade, a pinball machine in which the characters bounce off one another. When the characters are this likeable, that's not such a bad thing, but it is a bit shallow. Johansson plays Alex as ?Know your tu-tus from your leotards? Awesome! Come write dance reviews for the lA&E section. Stop .. Union room 240, ask for Eryn. Has anybody noticed that "OC" is also a slang-term for a drug driving thousands of Americans (like, for example, Rush Limbaugh...) into rehab? Hmm...Murdoch, you villain. We're onto you. PLASMA SERVICES 9 For anybody who'd like to engage in sensible drinking (Oxymoron? Whip- pie?) Area 51 ( 3 4 8 W. 5 0 0 South), Shaggy's (155 W. 2 0 0 South), and Club Utopia (108 S. 5 0 0 West) are all having L a d i e s ' (orwomen's...we're trying, feminists. We really are.) a full-blooded, perceptive young woman who is able to take a step back from her relationship with Carter and see it for what it really is. Johansson continues to wow in what should have been a more strongly written role. Never one for flash, Dennis Quaid offers another understated performance that proves sometimes less is more. It's good, old-fashioned American acting, something he and other actors like Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood have down pat. We tend to take their style for granted—which is probably why none of them has ever won an Academy Award for acting. I guess that's what Honorary Oscars are for. As for Topher Grace, his star will continue to wait. He plays Carter with all his usual tricks, but the script just doesn't provide him with a very memorable character. Where are all the Benjamin Braddocks and Lloyd Dobblers and Jerry Maguires? Once a character like that is thrown Grace's way, he'll really bust out. aallen@chronicle.utah.edu Help Save a Life! Donate Plasma Today. Receive $45 each week. Call 801-363-7697 609 S. State, SLC,UT 84111 www.biolifeplasma.com Bring in this ad for a $5 bonus. 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