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1 December 2008 8:30 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

I was first exposed to the music of White Zombie through a blind buy of their 1989 Caroline Records release Make Them Die Slowly (the spine of the CD oddly says “Let Them Die Slowly”). At the time, I didn’t really enjoy it, and I later went on to trade in the disc at a local record store in favor of something a little more “metal.”

At the time, I was in high school, and riding on the cusp of that “am I a punk kid, a metalhead, or a part of the grunge movement?” identity crisis that many of my peers also faced in the early 1990's. I’d later come to realize that labels of genre were not important, and that good music was all that ever really mattered.

When White Zombie re-emerged with their 1992 release La Sexorcisto: Devil Music,  Vol. 1, I nearly passed on it having still »

8 July 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Brendan Fraser made his breakthrough by starring in two back-to-back films in 1992: The dumb frozen-caveman comedy Encino Man, and the smarter period drama School Ties, in which he played a secretly Jewish boy at an elite prep school. The dichotomy of those two films provided a solid sample of the next decade of his career: Alternating character dramas (Gods And Monsters, The Passion Of Darkly Noon, The Twilight Of The Golds) with big, sloppy comedies (Airheads, George Of The Jungle) and nichey comedy-dramas, he had a strangely patterned career that jumped around tonally and gave him as many flops as successes. Then in 1999, he starred in the special-effects-heavy blockbuster The Mummy. While he's done drama and comedy since then, his biggest roles ever since have been in big effects movies: The Mummy Returns, Monkeybone, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, and the new Journey To The Center Of The... »

- Tasha Robinson

2 articles from 2008