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wwwpo8theraldcom Friday August 15 2003 oR Magic City Calendar C2 Off the Record C3 Film Clips C4 Accent C6 Beat Beta editor Robin Qemow 32S-2370 rdemowpo8therakLoom THE POST-HERALD-ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE i iriC of ts! 6 A br in jhi 2 iTo I- Ti Tn- Vf lb 9 cr1- 9 I Jr 2 r-: i i ii- iKr rit: -li'l Jv n-' Special to the Post-Herald From toft Freddy played by Robert Engkmd diecuteee his finer points with Jason played by Ken Kkzinger in vs vs not as sharp as it could be 1 FREDDY VS JASON" (R) (out of tour) Stoning Robert Engkmd Ken Kirzinger Monica Keena Kety Rowland and Jason Ritter Directed by Rormy Yu Opens today at Brook highland Carmke Festival Summit TrussvSe Vestavia HBa and WUvmod A marriage of two horror franchises 'Freddy vs Jason sue- ceeds as a gutty pleasure a monster mash that clobbers the recent lackluster sequels plaguing both Special tp the Poet-Herald Stretch Aim Strong from left David A Sease John Barry Chris the last day of Furnace Fast at Slots Furnaces The festival wH fea- McLano Scott Dempsey and Jeremy Jeffers wM bathe headNner on ture more than 80 bands during today Saturday and Sunday Furnace Fest headliner stays true to its roots If only that were a higher com- pfcnent In the grand money-grabbing tradtton of 'King Kong vs GodzRa and and Costelo Meet Frankenstein' this cinematic gorefest matches up efream I demon Freddy Krueger from I on Elm Street and hockey-fashionable Her Jason Voorhees of "Friday the fame By wiping away any evidence of his existence the parents of Elm Street have effectively defeated Freddy (Robert Englund) the -dream-dweng chid murderer An experimental drug keeps (heir kids from dreaming so a newly power less Freddy has to recnit machete: wielding automaton Jason (Ken 2 Kirzinger) to revive his legacy Npt-one for manipulation Jason soon cuts into Freddy's revenge piarv-resulting in a tete-a-tete of biadefc-and bad teeth The visualy styfsh director '-'1 Ronnie Yu and his cofeborators' get a B-plus for creative kls and not taking themselves too serious-" ly but a C-minus for making it al stick together A pity espedaly after they came so dose If nothing else perhaps they've succeeded in sparking interest for future Vs" fikns vs Predator' anyone? Robert Elder Chicago Tribune 4 midnight Sunday Where Stoss Furnaces 120 32nd St Tickets $60 wookond pass at wwwfurnacefestcom $20 Friday and Sunday or $30 Saturday at the gate Information complete schedule of acts at wwwfumacefestcom I What Furnace Fast 2003 hardcore music festival featuring more than 80 bands Who Headfinere include -Hopesfal Further Seems Forever Taidng Back Sunday Findh Hum Everytkne I Die and Stretch Arm Strong When 11:30 am-1 am Friday and Saturday 1 1 :30 am-' quit their day Jobs in 2002 after their 2001 album Revolution Transmission" took them from a grassroots club band to one of the more well-known bands in the world of hardcore Just off the road as the opening band for the Good ChariotteNew Found Glory tour Stretch is in the middle of a headlining tour playing 1000-seat venues across the country The band will headline the third night of Furnace Fest 2003 Sunday at Sloss Furnaces By ROBH aamw BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD starting back up in -Colombia SC where Chris McLane taught elementary school not long ago But instead of assign-'ing desks and going over room rules McLane sprat a recent Tuesday carrying stereo equipment into a theater in Buffalo NY where he would perform that night as the frontman for Stretch Arm Strang' Members of the hardcore band festivals in the country It is the brainchild of Chris Johnson who once ran Take Hold Records out of his Birmingham garage and is now Please turn to STRETCH page C3 show will serve as thp CD release party for new album which is due an shelves Tuesday Furnace Fest now in its fourth year is one of the larger hardcore SCREEN II A QUICK suffers from awkward mixes Kevin Costar left and Robert Duvall star in the story of an 1882 war in Second Annul Jazz Gospel FesthraL 6-10 tonight 10 am-10 pm Saturday and noon- 8 pm Sunday 1925 Second Av6 Irondale Free but donations requested 951-9651 RJUVNfest Five-band show featuring Alcohol Prep Everyone Wants to Be Mr Black The Ken Johnson Band Derrick Harris and Alamantra fund-raiser for Rape Abuse Incest National Network 7 pm Sunday High Note Lounge 414 21st StS TJnforgiven' But it's also a biend of the classical and the trite the beautiful and tawdry the genuinely moving and the combal Oddy producer-drector-star Costner often can't seem to tel the difference How could the same drector who made both "Dances With Wolves' and the fine early section of 'Range a tough but lyrical look at the hard ife of a group of cowboys who operate as free-grazers moving their herd along the open range coping with sudden thunderstorms vindetive ranchers and mud-stuck wagons also approve the string of strained phony by-the-numbers antkknaxes that wreck the thrfl of the movie's end? How could the fimmaker who gives us the sagacity of the cow-puncher patriarch Boss Spearman (Robert (Puval) and (he stunning malevolence of Boss's nemesis OPEN (R) (out of lout) Staning Robert Duval Kevin Costner Annette Boning Mkhael Gambon and Mkhael Jeter Directed by Kevin Costner Opens today at Brook Highland Carmike Festival Summit TmssvSa and Wldwood Kevin Costner's "Open Range' tries to open up the Old West once more as prime movie territory- This portrayal of an 1882 Montana range war is an epic ffrn with big stars and spacious landscapes and since I love Westerns and would Ice to see the genre tfvtve again I only wish it were better- It's the first major movie Western in many years and maybe the first one with a real chance for commercial success since Cint Eastwood's 1992 classic WATCH TICKET Special to the Poet-Herald Haak WUm Jr 8 pm Sept 13 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre Peham Tickets On sale 10 pm Saturday through Tfcketmaster best I reminds us how grand1 impure and potentialy alve the Western genre can be MchaelVWmington I Chicago Tribune Costner comes tantaizrgfy dose But "Open Range' is such a strange mix of the grand and the hackneyed that it never gets its bearings even though at its rancher Denton Baxter (Mtehaei Gambon) also try to float the 'aw-shucks' love scenes between Costner's Charley Waite and Annette Bering's Sue Bartcyv?.