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Aleks Amer, a senior at
Lexington High School, to fill
the holes.
The foursome needed a
vocalist and met 16-year-old
Charlie Jackson online.
Jackson posted a message on
their online guest book asking
if they needed a guitarist.
When the band learned he
could sing, he quickly became
the band’s singer. Jackson can
also play various instruments.
After a series of lineup
changes, the band felt it was
time to change its name as
well, settling on The Autumn
Overcast instead of Forever
and a Day and Upon a Tragic
Ending. Jackson came up
with the name for his acoustic
side project, but after the
band formed, decided to use
the name for the other band
instead.
With the band in place and
new material written, the
band played its first show as
The Autumn Overcast on
Nov. 28, 2004, at New
Brookland Tavern. The band
performed as Forever and a
Day the previous year on
Sept. 27, 2003 at Uncle
Doctors. From there, things
fell into place, landing The
Autumn Overcast shows in
Myrtle Beach, Charleston,
Greenville, Augusta and
Ladson, as well as numerous
places around Columbia. The
guys began to draw large
crowds and sustain fens.
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what really happened.
The actors show no enthusiasm.
When compared to her usually
extraordinary performances,
Linney, a two-time Oscar-nominee,
plays Bruner in a flat, detached
manner. Until the final scenes of
the movie, Wilkinson, a veteran
British actor also once nominated
for an Academy Award, resigns
himself to giving Moore little
emotion.
Even Shohreh Aghdashloo,
nominated for best supporting
actress for “House of Sand and
Fog,” doesn’t give her best
performance as a defense witness.
Unlike her performance in
“House,” which commands the
audiences’ attention with powerful
emotion, Aghdashloo seems
mechanical as anthropologist Dr.
Adani.
The only believable cast
member is Jennifer Carpenter as
Emily Rose. Carpenter is the
perfect person to play the once
healthy girl transformed into a
shrieking, skeletal figure.
While the movie shows the
back-and-forth battle between the
prosecutor and the defense, heaven
and hell, faith and science, it seems
to lack a fulfilling conclusion. The
audience is left superficially
satisfied with the scares and trial
wrap-up but disappointed by the (
human drama.
Despite its faults, the film
intriguingly redefines the genre,
marrying logic with the
supernatural.
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