ACROSS
1 Waned
6 “Boyhood” actor
Ethan
11 Taking a personal
day, say
14 Emancipation
Proclamation
subject
15 Tale of Achilles
and Agamemnon
16 Bro
17 Computer user’s
combination
19 Green prefix
20 Gallery display
21 Pinnacle
22 Accustoms (to)
24 Wan
26 Pen points
29 They may be run
at bars
30 What potatoes
and needles both
have
31 AT&T, briefly
33 Nebraska tribe
34 Biblical beast
36 Waikiki’s island
38 Aegean island
39 Computer user’s
combination
43 14-time NBA All-
Star Duncan
44 Washing
machine filler
45 Anthem
contraction
46 Indian princess
48 Rainbow maker
50 Leave out
54 Have __: be
connected
55 Boy with a
dragon, in a
Disney classic
56 Wine region near
San Francisco
57 Part of USSR
60 Louis XVI, for
one
62 Resistance
measure
63 “Game of
Thrones” airer
64 Computer user’s
combination
68 Spot for a
Bluetooth
headset
69 United Arab
Emirates city
70 Cat-__-tails
71 Dr. of rap
72 Pine (for)
73 Modern surgical
tool
DOWN
1 Get away from it
all
2 DVD alternative
3 War movie scene
4 Actress Gabor
5 Bit of progress
6 Many a
Woodstock
attendee
7 In the style of
8 Ill. neighbor
9 Prince William’s
wife
10 Genesis garden
11 Like Verdi’s most
famous works
12 Subject of the
2010 film “The
Social Network”
13 Follows dental
advice
18 “Please continue”
23 __-Aztecan:
language family
25 Actor Morales
27 Dagwood’s wife
28 Big bunch
32 “Give me a
break!”
35 NBC show with
skits
37 Suffix with glob
39 Place for
cocktails and
music
40 Hardly a picky
eater?
41 50+ org.
42 Waffle maker
43 Vandalized
47 Pasta suffix
49 Muscle injury
51 New Zealand
natives
52 Samsung Galaxy
competitor
53 Mess (with), as a
lock
58 Whirlpool
59 T, on a test
61 Fan mail recipient
65 Lawyer’s gp.
66 Long-snouted
fish
67 “CSI” evidence
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Arts
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Ridiculous ‘Son’
“Seventh Son” is
dumb fantasy
done badly
By JACOB RICH
Daily Film Editor
Dumb fantasy, much like dumb
action and dumb romantic com-
edy, can be a surprisingly viable
genre
when
done right. In
the age of abun-
dant blockbuster
trash-mongers
like Michael Bay,
it has become
increasingly
apparent
that
stratification
exists between the “good” (“Pacif-
ic Rim,” “Live Die Repeat: Edge of
Tomorrow”) and “bad” (“Trans-
formers,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles”) popcorn movies. “Sev-
enth Son,” based on a UK young-
adult fantasy novel, is a shining
example of the latter, a soulless
fantasy/action movie that seems
to have spent its $95 million bud-
get in somehow convincing Oscar-
nominated actors Jeff Bridges
(“True Grit”) and Julianne Moore
(“Still Alice”) to grace it with their
presence.
Of that we can never be sure,
but it certainly seems evident that
very little money went towards
the film’s CGI. “Seventh Son” has
blurry, muddy visual effects, the
kind that aren’t concerned with
the viewer catching its imperfec-
tions. This philosophy of hiding
mediocre filmmaking pervades
many aspects of “Seventh Son,”
especially in the film’s terrible
fight choreography, which is most-
ly hidden by close-ups and a shaky
camera. Even though the film’s
post-production team clearly did
its best to make “Seventh Son” pre-
sentable, the ugly parts of the film
frequently stick out; for example,
a Chewbacca-esque Orc charac-
ter’s terrible mask and makeup are
barely veiled by a layer of CGI, and
the “magical” death animation for
several witch characters seems
(unintentionally) slightly different
each time one dies.
The only thing the film is con-
cerned with is lead actor Ben
Barnes’s (“The Chronicles of Nar-
nia: Prince Caspian”) face. His
stupid, dumb Hollister-ass face.
And his mysteriously Southern
Californian accent (especially for
a British actor). A farm boy who
becomes a knight’s apprentice
thanks to a prophecy or some-
thing, Ben Barnes’s Tom Ward is
without a doubt the least interest-
ing film protagonist in the history
of fantasy movies.
Magic amulet. Evil witches that
turn into dragons. Witch hunt-
er Jeff Bridges. That’s the plot,
explained with equal effort and
ambition as the film’s script puts
forth.
You’d think the addition of Kit
Harington (“Game of Thrones”),
a seasoned veteran of onscreen
medieval brooding, would at least
somewhat compensate for direc-
tor Sergei Bodrov’s choice to cast
a department store mannequin
as the protagonist. Instead, he
dies in the first five minutes of the
film. The fourth billed cast mem-
ber dies in the first five minutes
of the movie. Harington’s casting
is an act of pure deception to lure
“Game of Thrones” fans into this
trainwreck. Don’t be fooled.
Jeff
Bridges
and
Julianne
Moore are awful. Moore acts like
the film is a dental appointment;
Bridges at least has more fun with
it, but still doesn’t put in any real
acting, instead hamming it up with
exaggerated mouth movement and
a bizarre accent that’s part Gan-
dalf, part Bane, all terrible.
According to numerous online
sources, the film is a very loose
adaptation of the novel it’s based
on, so it didn’t even get that right.
The best thing that can be said
about this film is that it has a quick
pace and a short length.
Yet, “Seventh Son” has been
given a “D-” instead of an “F”
because dragons and swords and
stuff are still pretty cool things to
put in movies.
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“I need a shower soooo bad, dude.”
The best and worst
of Grammys fashion
By Daily Style Writers
BEST:
Pharrell:
Besides
nabbing
three statuettes Sunday night,
Pharrell exercised his recent
collection of Adidas, a crisp gray
shorts suit — one in which he
could probably exercise. Though
nothing revelatory at first blush,
when a light hits it, the suit’s
grey goes white, matching his
suede, buck lace-ups. Williams
doesn’t need the Smokey Bear
hat to distinguish himself: An
Adidas collab, an unadulterated
eye for color and accolades that
never stop raining will suffice
for now.
— Andrew McClure
Aloe
Blacc:
Though
Aloe
Blacc’s
music
contributions
have been afterthought-ish for
a few years now, the 36-year-
old hyphenate still swags out,
leaving any flaws at home. On
the carpet, he teamed up with an
indie fashion label to rock a rich
navy suit, complete with a snow-
white pocket square to light up
his shirt. Some think the south-
of-knee taper is key on the pants,
but Blacc opts for the slim-cut,
straight leg, which barely kiss
his baby-blue suede loafers.
Smart. A blacked-out pork pie
cap levels out the vibrancy of
everything below.
— Andrew McClure
Kanye West: Kanye doesn’t
smile in photographs because
people “back then” didn’t. Even
his nearly punking Beck for the
artist’s Album of the Year win
wasn’t funny. What is funny is
that Ye seldom looks like shit,
and when he “does,” you always
end up commending his almost-
transgressive
look.
He
wended down the carpet, chin
up, tits out, in a clean velvet
Balmain suit. Bespoke to his
distinctive taste, the pant legs
stack, unstreamlined, like the
money he made from Yeezus.
A gilded necklace and velvet
cowboy boots — Ye likes boots
— say, “I only need one color to
trump all of yours, bitch.”
— Andrew McClure
Beyoncé: Two things I know
for certain: 1. Bey is impossible
of looking anything other than
flawless. 2. If anyone’s going
to convince us all to convert to
veganism, it’s her. This form of
human head-to-toe perfection
is high-key scary at this point,
but when her goddess-like body
is donning a beaded, custom,
body-hugging Proenza Schouler
gown, it’s clear we’ve found the
eighth world wonder. Long live
the queen.
— Caroline Filips
Gwen
Stefani:
Thankfully,
Gwen has graduated from the
days of donning Harajuku on the
red carpet, and it’s a beautiful
thing — especially when it
led her to an Atelier Versace
jumpsuit. Harem-style bottoms
and a ruffled bustier only added
to her edgy style repertoire, but
it’s clear she’s taking a more
refined, minimalist approach.
The little black jumpsuit is on
the rise, people.
— Caroline Filips
Taylor Swift: As a perpetual
skeptic of the high-low trend,
Taylor
took
a
unique
spin
on it with a teal, halter mini
dress within a ball gown that
converted me into a full-fledged
believer. Elie Saab is always
perfectly feminine and elegant,
and when it’s topped off with
Lorraine Schwartz — killing
it.
— Caroline Filips
Kim
Kardashian
West:
Hair and makeup alone, Kim
Kardashian
owned
the
red
carpet. But then, she slipped on
her robe and she stole the show.
And by robe I mean golden-
sequined Jean Paul Gaultier
Haute
Couture
gown.
Kim
was too petite for the dress; it
would have looked better on say,
Beyoncé, but it also wasn’t black,
so Mrs. West gets major kudos.
She was the best shiny, gold thing
Kanye could hold since he didn’t
walk away with a Grammy.
— Mara MacLean
Childish Gambino: The men
definitely surpassed the women
this Grammy season and the
male forerunner was none other
than Donald Glover. His tux was
tailored to perfection, matching
his optimal amount of facial hair.
Glover’s cuff stopped just above
the ankle to accentuate his sharp
slippers. The ladies need to step
up their game in order to keep up
with ’Bino.
— Mara MacLean
John
Mayer:
Mr.
Mayer
looked as dapper as can be on
the Grammy red carpet. When
he started playing the guitar in
the same getup, you could hear
swoons. He paired a classic
tuxedo, though a little shiny, with
a great bowtie. His tortoiseshell
glasses
and
sweeping
‘do
completed the look, completely
outshining Katy Perry.
— Mara MacLean
WORST:
Nick Jonas: I don’t listen to
Nick Jonas and, to be frank, I
thought he was part of the Naked
Brothers Band for like, well,
until yesterday. And because the
Internet is big I am probably not
the first to say he embarrassed
himself last night, in a plaid
Versace suit with blinding white
high-top kicks. First, Versace
sucks.
Their
ready-to-wear
menswear line, in all of its gold-
jewelry-printed-on-a-bomber-
only-$3K!-ness, is by and large
meant for one of two people — a
Saudi prince who discovered
high fashion today or a not-
real person. There’s a stark line
between
sartorial
risk-taking
and
wearing
expensive
shit
because it’s expensive and the
creative directors must “know
what they’re doing.” Jonas, tsk.
— Andrew McClure
Sam Smith: Sam Smith won
four Grammys this year. I have
a hunch that these shows are
scripted enough for Smith to
know that he was going to surely
win at least two awards last night,
so I expected more out of him.
His sort-of-annoying pompadour
aside, his sharp Armani tux had
potential, but all went to hell
when his white bowtie existed
and his shirt cuffs nearly hit his
southernmost thumb knuckle,
like me in my dad’s swag back
at the homecoming dance. I
liked the stacked-leg, tapered-
below-knee
pants,w
but
his
Lego-like hyper-glossed Oxford
lace-ups make me want to chuck
my phone. I did.
— Andrew McClure
LL Cool J: I remember when
someone, for the first time,
mentioned LL Cool J, and me
asking, “So what’s his real stage
name?” The name hasn’t gotten
any cooler, even if he is hosting
music’s “biggest” night for the
fourth time. The moment I saw
that he and Seacrest were wearing
the
same
Armani
made-to-
measure suit, I was disappointed
in Seacrest, unfazed by LL Cool
J. In an electric, navy suit jacket
with black lapels, black trousers
and his typical limo-driver lid,
things got worse with a droopy,
oversized Mickey Mouse bowtie.
I’m convinced that hue of blue
looks good on nobody, except
maybe the store rack. It’s a good
home for any style piece not
worth exposing to your friend,
let alone millions of wine-sipping
judges in their living rooms.
— Andrew McClure
Madonna: So Madonna is
definitely having a midlife crisis
as seen right on the Grammys’s
red carpet last night. Dressed in
a Givenchy trainwreck, she tried
to embrace her inner cabaret/
yodeler/naughty maid and it
was an epic fail. Madonna, you
are 56 years old (the age of my
grandmother), for the love of all
that is right in the fashion world
please dress appropriately for
your age.
— Mariam Sheikh
Rihanna: RiRi showed up on
the carpet in a huge, pink, poofy
disaster of proportions that I
have not seen since I played with
princess barbies. However, she
redeemed herself during the
awards when she skipped the
pink ruffles and went for a more
sleek and cool look, a black pant
suit. Sometimes you just can’t
win ‘em all RiRi.
— Mariam Sheikh
Katherine
McPhee:
Maybe
cutting your own hair works
for
you,
Kath,
but
please
refrain
from
cutting
your
dresses … and please, please
#StopRandomMetalBars2k15.
— Caroline Filips
Iggy Azalea: I too questioned,
“who dat?” at first glance of
Ms. Azalea herself, but was
confused as to why one of the
von Trapp children would be at
the Grammys. Iggy, you can wear
anything, but please, check the
mane.
— Caroline Filips
Charli XCX: Moschino is hard
to get right on the red carpet,
and unfortunately Charli XCX’s
attempt was a failure. Her white
tuxedo looked like it could use a
good steam, and her red carpet
stance did not work well with
the sheen. The hair and makeup
added to the pink bowtie and
fur; it all had a very Alice in
Wonderland feel, somewhere
between the Mad Hatter and
White Rabbit.
— Mara MacLean
Katy Perry: Perry’s hair and
makeup were all wrong, from the
lavender tresses to cat eyeliner.
Her
nude,
beaded
Zuhair
Murad dress appeared ill-fitted
and hit a really bad part of the
leg. It was interesting and eye-
catching, but not necessarily
for the right reasons. The dress
was stunning, as is Perry, but
it didn’t come together this
time.
— Mara MacLean
Glossed Oxford
lace-ups make
me want to
chuck my phone.
D-
Seventh Son
Rave and
Quality 16
Universal Pictures