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This week's reviews: 'Bowling,' Enrique Iglesias, more
(PEOPLE) -- This week, PEOPLE.COM looks at the film "Bowling for Columbine," Enrique Iglesias' album "Quizás" and UPN's "The Twilight Zone." Movie review: 'Bowling for Columbine'
Given the horrifying madness of the sniper shootings in Washington, D.C., and nearby areas, director-writer Michael Moore's bracing documentary questioning America's love for -- and easy access to -- guns couldn't be more timely. The title, meant to be ironic, derives from the fact that the high school duo who shot fellow classmates in Columbine, Colorado, in 1999 went bowling before heading for school that fateful morning. What could be more American, Moore ("Roger & Me") asks? Using humor, grandstanding ambush interviews (including one with a frail-looking Charlton Heston before his Alzheimer's announcement) and plain, old-fashioned journalistic digging, Moore has made a provocative, entertaining and maddening film that demands attention. Bottom line: A must-see documentary Music review: 'Quizás'Enrique Iglesias (Universal Music Latino)
Before becoming muy caliente in the States with two hit English-language albums, including last October's still-charting "Escape," Enrique Iglesias had sold more than 17 million copies of his Spanish releases worldwide and won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance for his 1996 debut CD. "Quizás," Iglesias's first disc of all Spanish-language material in five years, should satisfy longtime fans who were there before "Bailamos." The album (whose title means "perhaps") reveals that the Spanish heartthrob, while increasingly comfortable singing in English, is still more confident performing in his native tongue. On a cotton-candy tune like "La Chica de Ayer" (The Girl from Yesterday), he delivers the lyrics with conviction, rolling his R's with a verve absent from his crossover work. (Given the treacly lyrics on Iglesias's English-language recordings, it also doesn't hurt to not understand the words.) Otherwise, though, it's still pretty much the same Enrique, harmlessly warbling with his unremarkable voice on airy midtempo tracks and dance numbers, as well as on romantic boleros (ballads) such as the first single "Mentiroso" (Liar), a song that would fit right on the soundtrack of a Spanish soap opera. Still, it's hard to resist a guilty pleasure like "Mamacita," with its mix of lilting Latin rhythms, soft acoustic-guitar accents, pulsating electronica and a giddy chorus that you won't be able to get out of your head. Bottom line: Different language, same easy (if not exciting) listening TV review: 'The Twilight Zone'UPN (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. ET) Dee-dee-doo-doo, dee-dee-doo-doo. I know I can watch the original series from 1959-64 at noon or midnight on the Sci Fi Channel. I know that new host Forest Whitaker, though superior in size, will never equal Rod Serling in gravitas. But when I hear that old, eerie music, I'm drawn irresistibly to this revival. UPN's "Zone" is inconsistent, but that's probably unavoidable for an anthology that tells two stories a week. Last month's premiere set a high standard with the clever and poignant "One Night at Mercy," in which the Grim Reaper (played by Jason Alexander with just enough of a wink) tried to quit his depressing job. The October 16 hour offers "The Pool Guy," a tense mind game in which the title character (Lou Diamond Phillips) can't escape a recurring dream of his own murder. Early episodes have contained lesser efforts too. "Shades of Guilt" was a heavy-handed parable in which a white man turned black and suffered the sting of racism. "Dream Lover" resorted to an arbitrary twist: The fellow having a fantasy was actually a figment of somebody else's imagination. Still, it's good to see the anthology form back on TV. These little dramas don't give us time to grow bored. Bottom line: Stay a while in the "Zone"
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