Chronic Town

The movie takes extraordinary unexpected twists and turns that will leave you gasping, but steers away from being a dark dramatic movie, lifted frequently by clever wit and laugh out loud humor. As an official selection of the 2008 New Hampshire Film Festival (and others including Sundance) Chronic Town proved to a perfect storm of elements comprising an authentic independent flick: conflicted characters; sharp and believable dialogue; and the reveal of major plot twists and turns. ... Full Review

Chronic Town" visibly embodies the spirit of independent filmmaking that Sundance has championed for more than two decades, suggesting that a skillful distributor could creatively craft an appropriate arthouse niche for the film. Supporting cast members adroitly keep developments focused on this unlikely pair while infusing the film with markedly restrained humor. ... Full Review

Everything about Chronic Town is incredibly solid: the acting, the directing, the script and dialogue, the story, but if only Hines would have hired an actual cinematographer, it wouldn't have looked like a film made on my parent's video camera. And if it weren't for the awful cinematography, this would be higher on my scale for an otherwise great script and great cast. ... Full Review

Thursday isn't the best day to catch a movie at the Fla. Film Festival . I wasn't nuts about Chronic Town ( even though I liked the Alaska druggies/drunks milieu ), Poundcake (A good cast wasted ) or the Oscar... ... Full Article

REM's Peter Buck has had his signature guitar stolen, NME reports. The black Rickenbacker 360, which Buck has used since the band's Chronic Town album in 1982, was taken from the stage after REM's concert in Helsinki last night. ... Full Article

The kind of single guy whose morning wake-up routine means rolling out of bed and dashing to the bathroom to throw up the previous night's booze, Truman (Bourne) adopts a hardened exterior under his handle, "the Ice Raider." ... Full Article

As we come down to the dregs of Sundance, PopWatchers, a lot of EW reporters are still pounding the pavement, seeing our last assigned screenings, and picking up final interviews before this whole circus packs up and goes home. ... Full Article

Over the years Euphone has morphed from a solo project by Ryan Rapsys (the late Heroic Doses) to a duo with bassist Nick Macri to a trio with Jeremy Jacobsen (the Lonesome Organist). ... Full Article

R.E.M.'s Chronic Town EP was one of last year's more invigorating, tuneful surprises: a record from an Athens, Georgia, band that cared not a whit for the fashionable quirks of that town's dance-rock outfits like the B-52's or Pylon. ... Full Article