Lions for Lambs: Painfully earnest and talky, with Redford shooting everything with the cheap, clammy look and feel of an incredibly self-righteous production by the Max Fischer Players.
Sondra Radvanovsky gives a towering performance as the wronged queen: her voice, with its fast vibrato, rings like huge, clangoring bells, filling the magnificent castle chambers of David McVicar's production with righteous fury.
All righteous anger and bass-heavy production, it surveyed the crumbling edifice of capitalism, referencing George Bush and the Taliban, and even found room for a smart riff on Tears for Fears' 'Mad World'.
This is unsubtle stuff; its power comes from its righteous gall but the best this production musters is a sincere mimicking of a passion that was heartily felt long ago.
The knee-jerk misogyny and bellyaching are made endurable by two things: the album's righteous tone, and the skill of Dre's production, which retains the velvety ease of his imperial period.
It's an hour-long flotation tank, with Granduciel's evocative, spacey production folding in sympathetic piano, harmonica, bass clarinet and some righteous saxophone skronk.
She referenced "coming out" and mentioned Cydney Bernard, a production manager, as "my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life".
This point was driven home for me reading Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book Righteous Porkchop, which spends a good chunk of the book discussing the roots of all industrial livestock production -- poultry processing.
It's a perfect storm of righteous indignation – ink refillers stick it to public enemy #1, ink salesmen, by using the tools of mass production.
