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(11/17/05 5:00am)
It is very difficult to cram 734 pages into a film, even one which is two-and-a-half hours long. However, this is what director Mike Newell (Mona Lisa Smile) has successfully accomplished with the fourth installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. While fanatic fans of the book will be able to pick out what is missing (no house elves), Newell does an excellent job of cutting out the sub-plots to create a clear, concise storyline that follows the main plot of the book.
(11/10/05 5:00am)
Street Film recently spoke with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, stars of the upcoming comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, about drugs, gay detectives, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(10/20/05 4:00am)
This week, Street talks to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Cameron Crowe about his latest work, Elizabethtown, and the highs and lows of his illustrious career. Elizabethtown is currently playing at The Bridge Cinemas and stars Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.
(09/22/05 4:00am)
Ahoy, me maties! For those of ye landlubbers who didn't know, less than a fortnight ago, this past Monday was National Talk Like a Pirate Day, or TLAPD for short. I decided that I wanted the full TLAPD experience, so for the past week I prepared to talk, walk, and be pirate. Arrr. I plundered me roommate's booty chest of CVS pirate costumes, and grabbed me eye patch and parrot. I didn't shower or shave for a whole week to get that natural pirate smell of the sea on me skin. Every pirate needs to be in tip-top shape, so I took to Pottruck early in the day in full pirate regalia to use the elliptical and scream, "Arrrrrr!" while lifting weights.
(07/21/05 4:00am)
Michael Bay's The Island can be summed up in three phrases: escaping from authorities, things blowing up and attractive people in tight white suits. If you don't know anything else about the movie but have an interest in seeing it, then stop reading now -- the less you know about the plotline going into the film, the more enjoyable it is. Don't watch the trailers either, because you'll be able to guess 80 percent of the storyline.
(06/30/05 4:00am)
The other night my friend called to tell me she was going snowboarding with a bunch of people and I should come along.
(06/02/05 4:00am)
Sunday May 29, 2005, 12:58 p.m.: Just walked out of shower. Dancing in underwear singing "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5 when power goes off.
1:03: Look outside. Hall lights are still on; figure it's just my room. Get dressed and take elevator down from 17th floor to report outage.
1:04: Power goes out in elevator between floors 12 and 13. Three of us are in elevator, all guys. Make awkward conversation about Memorial Day barbecues.
1:06: Elevator powers up and moves down to first floor. Girl at info desk tells me whole building is now out.
1:10: Make trip to Fresh Grocer to buy emergency supplies.
1:30: Made purchase of the essentials: Wheat Thins, Tupperwear, strawberry jam, limited edition Kellogg's Star Wars cereal, E.L. Fudge cookies, barbecue sauce and flashlight.
1:35: Re-enter Harrison. Power still down and elevators inactive. Begin trek up 17 flights of stairs with Fresh Grocer bags.
1:38: Rest break on 7th floor.
1:41: Rest break on 11th floor.
1:44: Mad dash to 17th floor.
1:45: Chug everything left in Brita.
1:46: Sit in chair for five minutes and listen as beating heart is exploding in chest. Make mental note to go to Pottruck more often.
1:51: Purge mental note from memory, eat five E.L. Fudge cookies.
1:52: Put away rest of groceries.
1:58: One-hour mark. Sit on the couch and stare out window at cloud formations. Ponder meaning of life. Cloud looks like MacGyver.
2:20: Begin to think this would make funny piece in Street. Begin to make notes.
2:30: Cry when realization is made that this isn't funny. Conclude I suck at writing, life.
2:32: Become distracted by Frisbee. Play catch against self in the hall.
2:36: Pretend computer is working and have AIM conversations with fake friend Charlie. ROFL!
2:38: Hunger sets in. Make salad with ingredients found in apartment, including: Wheat Thins, tuna fish, Reese's Puffs, granola bars and Nutella.
2:40: Throw up contents in bathroom. Attempts to flush are futile because of power outage; apartment starts to smell like mix of wet dog and low tide. Wash mouth out with Cherry Coke.
2:42: Set up audience of stuffed animals, lamps, and kitchen appliances. Recite famous monologues, including JFK's inauguration speech, Lincoln's Gettysburg address and Dr. Evil's therapy session from Austin Powers.
2:58: Two-hour mark. Attempt to discover how many licks it takes to get to center of Tootsie Pop.
3:07: 528 licks.
3:10: Power is restored. Plop butt down on couch and watch hottie Danica Patrick finish 4th in Indy 500. Life is good again.
(05/19/05 4:00am)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is simply the best movie of the prequel trilogy. For the third and final installment of the latest Star Wars trilogy, director George Lucas proficiently weaves all six stories into a fairly seamless whole. There are battle scenes, love scenes, lightsaber battles and actors who actually can act.
(10/14/04 4:00am)
23 years ago, my mother and father got married. Then they had my brother and me. However, my father's fast-paced life as a racecar driver and my mom's conservative life as a bank teller didn't mesh well, so they got divorced when I was five. Normally, this would be the worst thing ever. However, I was fortunate in that my parents came to the civil agreement of weekdays with Mom, weekends with Dad.
(09/16/04 4:00am)
Painted Bride Art Center
(07/29/04 4:00am)
What do you get when you combine a crazed Army Major, a power-hungry Senator who touches her son a little too lovingly, and an Army Private-turned-politician who has less personality than a rock but is poised to be the next Vice President? An experience that will leave you asking for your two hours and 10 minutes back.
(07/22/04 4:00am)
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is back again in the second engagement of the Bourne series in The Bourne Supremacy. And now he's angry and on a mission to unravel a mystery. Well, he did that in the first movie, too. But this time he's angrier and his mission is more unraveling. Bourne, a former CIA agent who used to work as an assassin under a secret $30 million government project, has gone into hiding with his girlfriend Marie (Franka Potente) in India. After a Russian oil tycoon sets up a double murder to look like Bourne did it, the manhunt for him throughout Europe is on once again.
(04/22/04 4:00am)
What do you get when you combine a happening '80s soundtrack with the storyline of a New York pre-teen who wants to become an adult? No, this isn't Tom Hanks' Big; it's the premise of 13 Going On 30, the new film from Tadpole director Gary Winick.
(04/08/04 4:00am)
Penn has taught me a lot about being rejected. First, though, we need a story about rabies. So one morning last year my mom wakes up to get ready for work only to find that there is a bat flying around my house. How a bat gets into my house? Who the hell knows. But my mom, the brave woman that she is, captures the damn thing in a Tupperware container and sets it free outside. She calls the animal control department who tells her the bat might have salivated on her children while they slept; so everyone needs to go to the hospital and get rabies shots.
(04/01/04 5:00am)
If your parents fed you Nintendo for breakfast, then this is one program you need to see. Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession highlights how nerds from across the world built up the video game industry from the creation of Pong in 1972, to the current gaming industry, valued at over 20 billion dollars.
(04/01/04 5:00am)
There are things out there that go bump in the night," quips Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt). "We are the ones who bump back." No, this isn't your average weekend-drunken-sorority-girl- hook-up; it's Guillermo del Toro's above average comic-to-movie film Hellboy. Mix two parts X-Men, two parts Men In Black technology and a sprinkle of The Hulk's big buff looks, and you have the recipe that not only looks good but doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth.
(01/29/04 5:00am)
In the opening scene of George Armitage's The Big Bounce, Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) quips, "For a long time, I've been walking down the road of life with my two best friends, bad luck and bad choices." Both of them have led Wilson and the star-studded cast down to Hawaii on a terrible remake of an already awful 1969 film based on a novel by Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty).