Zac Brown Band show diversity on new CDZac Brown Band"Uncaged" (Southern Ground/Atlantic)The Zac Brown Band delivers a message with the title of its new album, "Uncaged" -- and the songs back up that statement. Although still likely to be described as a country band, the Georgia group purposely, and admirably, avoids current Nashville conventions on their new collection.Ten years in, the ZBB instead focus on the tight interplay the ensemble has developed through heavy touring, dwelling on instru

A Millionaire on the Run (Korea)Opening July 19 Comedy. Directed by Kim Ik-Ro. A promising salary man and a lobbyist, Choi Young-in (Park Jin-young) is attacked by a stranger while on a delivery mission to carry $5 million. He realizes that his boss Han Sang-moo (Cho Sung-ha), whom Young-in considered as his own brother, has betrayed him and made a scheme to kill him and take the money. While running away, Young-in encounters Miri (Min Hyo-rin) who robbed Pil-soo (Oh Jung-se) and runs away with

Here’s one thing the movies get wrong pretty consistently ― the reaction of seemingly rational people upon seeing the supernatural, the impossible, the miraculous.“Red Lights,” the new film from the director of the nervy minimalist thriller “Buried” (Ryan Reynolds in a box), has great actors reacting exactly the way their characters would respond to things that fall under “This CANNOT be happening.”There’s Sigourney Weaver as Margaret, the jaded, not-quite smug academic and veteran debunker of t

Peter O’Toole is retiring from show business, saying he no longer has the heart for it and that it’s time to “chuck in the sponge.”O’Toole, who turns 80 on Aug. 2, said in a statement Tuesday that his career on stage and screen fulfilled him emotionally and financially, bringing “me together with fine people, good companions with whom I’ve shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.” “However, it’s my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one’s stay,” he s

NEW YORK - Spike Lee worked with Michael Jackson and considered him a friend, but the director says even he learned a lot combing through footage of the icon for a planned documentary about the singer’s “Bad” album. Lee calls it a “treasure chest of findings.” “We have footage in this documentary that no one’s ever seen, stuff that Michael shot himself, behind-the-scenes stuff,” he said in an interview Monday. “We had complete access to the vaults of Michael Jackson. ... He wrote 60 demos for th

KARA, one of the most popular Korean pop groups in Japan, was ranked 6th in the “2012 First Half Talent Power Ranking” according to Nikkei Entertainment, a Japanese entertainment magazine. The five-member girl group proved its popularity, ranking the highest out of hallyu stars in Japan. The result was a pleasant surprise for the group as it ranked after the five members of Arashi, a Japanese boy group, who took the top five spots. The survey of teenage girls in Japan placed KARA as the only for

The South Korean film “The Concubine” has been sold to eight Asian countries, including Singapore, China and Japan, its distributor Lotte Entertainment said Thursday.Directed by Kim Dae-seung, the erotic period drama is about the love triangle involving a Joseon-era king, his concubine and another man.The film has sold more than 2.6 million tickets since opening at local theaters on June 6, according to the company. (Yonhap News)

Seoul’s last old-style, one-screen cinema, soon to be knocked down and replaced by a hotel, played its final movie Wednesday ― the Italian classic “The Bicycle Thief’’ ― a moment so emotional for the theater operator that she publicly shaved her head in frustration.The theater, which opened in 1964, had become a place where mostly elderly moviegoers gathered regularly to watch classic Hollywood and South Korean films and indulge in nostalgia for cinematic days gone by. As huge multiplexes made i

UBC dancer Ahn Ji-eun theatrically impressive in MacMillan’s interpretation of Shakespearean tragedyWhile considered one of the greatest love stories of all time, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is also a coming-of-age story.The piece is filled with adolescent rebellion; it deals with first love, loss of innocence, and the characters’ first efforts to separate themselves from their parents. The young lovers’ tragedy largely stems from having patriarchal, controlling parents, who ignore their na

Dramatic and emotionally-charged musicals from Germany appeal to Korean sensibilitiesThis year Korea will produce one of the largest numbers of German musicals in the world.Ever since the musical boom in the early 2000s, Korea has looked mostly to Broadway for inspiration, but is now turning its gaze to Europe.German imports “Elisabeth,” “Rebecca” and “Mozart!” have hit stages to roaring success, and are holding their own against tried-and-true American staples such as “Wicked,” “Chicago” and “H