The Fourth Kind tells a frightening tale that on the surface appears to be real. In 2004, filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi was wrapping another project in North Carolina when he heard the story of Dr. Abigail Tyler. Abby, as most refered to her, had relocated from Nome, Alaska after a series of events took place that changed her forever. Osunsanmi's fasination with Abby grew after discovering that all of her claims were, in fact, heavily documented.

The story begins after the death of Abby's (played by Milla Jovovich) husband Will Tyler. Before his death, Will was doing an ongoing study on residents of Nome that seemed to be having disturbing sleeping patterns and a troubling lack of memory of events they were certain occured. After his death, Abby felt that she should continue Will's work as it would have been what he wanted.

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It was a flashback for the flocks of fans that flooded into the Fillmore Auditorium for the sold out Foreigner concert. The band, which formed in 1976, has a relatively new lead singer in Kelly Hansen. That didn't deter any of the thousands that crowded into the general admission venue from spending their Friday night with the legendary rock band.

With no opening act Foreigner was obviously the main draw and was expected to put on quite a show. At least one worthy of the cost of admission. The band did not disappoint. Hansen fits in perfectly with the group and has the quintessential eighties rock voice. With a history of heavy metal, and stints with a slew of bands under his belt, the front man put on quite a performance. He had no problem leaving the stage and getting up close and personal with the fans, as he did numerous times throughout the two hour set.

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It may have been the first time that an artist has ever been introduced with the words Oscar winning, at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord. Jamie Foxx, the Oscar winning, grammy-nominated, jack of all trades, hit the stage amidst a barrage of smoke and lights. The entertainer is currently traveling the country on his Blame It Tour.

Foxx had multiple personalties on stage during his two hour set. There is one side of Foxx, the more popular side, that sings with help from auto tune and features Lil Wayne on all of his singles. Then there's the other side, the more talented one, that channels Ray Charles and is straight up blues. Jamie himself is very aware of this and took time out midway through the set to apologize for the hit singles that are in heavy rotation on hip hop radio nationwide.

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The line for the OP Tour began to form at noon on the streets surrounding The Warfield Theater in San Francisco. This year's tour features sets by Versa Emerge, A Rocket to the Moon, Cobra Starship, The Maine and head liners Boys Like Girls. A night of infectious pop rock at its finest was the bait that sold over 2,000 tickets. As fans flooded into the venue, the bulk of them under the age of 17, the merch line quickly grew to the same chaotic mess that had just unfolded outside. This pop rock formula is clearly working and, judging by the t-shirt and key chain sales alone, these bands are raking it in.

After two quick sets by Versa Emerge and A Rocket To The Moon, The Maine came strutting onto the stage. Fresh off their summer long Warped Tour gig the band has been performing to sold out rooms thus far on their current club run.

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Danish auteur Lars Von Trier has made a career out of controversy. Films like "The Idiots" in which perfectly sane people act like the mentally handicapped for artistic purposes, or "Manderlay" in which he attempts to prove that African Americans yearn for, and therefore doom themselves to perpetual slavery, are magnets for dissection. His newest work, "Antichrist," begs for similar treatment. Von Trier contends that the film is a sincere horror picture about how the universe was not created by God, but rather by Satan, and thus nature itself is evil. But like most of his films, his comments usually cannot be taken at face value. This film can't be nailed down by any one interpretation, and to take a cinematic prankster like Lars Von Trier at his word would be an error in judgment, and would never capture the vast beauty or revulsion the movie conjures up.

The film is built of two characters, He and She, played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, both of whom create harrowing portrayals of two deeply damaged individuals. He is a pedantic, overly cerebral psychoanalyst and She is a wounded woman working on her doctoral thesis. They are married and they've just lost a child, the death of which opens the film in a prologue that is so crisply photographed in luxurious black and white the pathos of the images gives way to awe; another filmic prank as the audience is taken in by the beauty of the picture while witnessing the horror of a young child's death, making the viewer question if the soothing images soften the blow of the tragedy or heighten it.

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