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(04/19/07 4:00am)
His eyes droopy and features looking deprived of melanin, the instantly recognizable Mike White sits lethargically on a couch in a Four Seasons hotel room overlooking Logan Square. He's tired from traveling all day, and I can tell he's not terribly interested in chatting about his new film, Year of the Dog, so we make small talk about my life for a bit.
(03/15/07 4:00am)
In the wake of such epics as Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, one imagines director Zack Snyder's 300, about the Roman Battle of Thermopylae, would have had little trouble getting picked up in Hollywood. Not so, says Snyder, whose first film since his 2004 debut Dawn of the Dead scored $70 million at the box office last weekend.
(01/18/07 5:00am)
Since 1944, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been doling out its luminous Golden Globes to overpaid filmmakers and TV stars. Though the stars don't covet these blunt, phallic weapons as much as the Oscars, the mainstream entertainment media still needs something to complain about until February 25. This year, Street joins the fray in our first-ever Globes recap.
(11/30/06 5:00am)
Like his emotionally explosive films (The Notebook and John Q among them), Nick Cassavetes's mere appearance demands attention. The 47-year-old writer-director stands well over six feet tall, and his young face and silver hair contrast with the elaborate tattoos on his neck and arms. Sitting down in a conference room at the Four Seasons hotel downtown, he begins to doodle shapes and names on a notepad.
(11/16/06 5:00am)
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(10/12/06 4:00am)
Perhaps the most frightening movie Americans see this Halloween is neither Saw III nor The Grudge 2 but a documentary about evangelical Christians called Jesus Camp. Principally focused on the young attendees of the "Kids on Fire" bible camp in North Dakota, the film sheds light on a sect of Christianity that has woven itself into the fabric of U.S. politics and culture. It also bites off more than it can chew by half-heartedly drawing conclusions about national political developments (such as a Supreme Court judicial nomination).
(09/21/06 4:00am)
Very little of Johnny Was is typical, least of all its genesis. Produced and financed by Ben Katz (Wharton and Nursing '01, MBA '02), the film provides a down-and-dirty look at a violent urban ghetto in the United Kingdom - and launches the filmmaking career of a notable Penn grad.
(09/14/06 4:00am)
Zach Braff swept young audiences off their feet in Scrubs and Garden State. This week, Braff - starring in the new romantic drama The Last Kiss, opening tomorrow - discussed music, marriage and his latest film with the editors.
(12/01/05 5:00am)
Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney produces and stars in the hot new political thriller Syriana, about the ins and outs of the global oil business. In this interview, the Hollywood virtuoso talks to Street about his experiences filming the flick.
(10/27/05 4:00am)
They are the words that aspiring Jedi Masters and Sith Lords have dreaded for years: "This is it. We've done Episode I through Episode VI and there won't be anymore films at all. That's finished." And judging from the source -- Rick McCallum, George Lucas' right-hand man and the producer of the most recent three episodes of Star Wars -- it seems certain that Lucas has laid his fantastically successful 30-year-old film saga to rest.
(09/22/05 4:00am)
Originally a graphic novel published by DC Comics last year, A History of Violence offers complex but uninspiring drama. Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings) stars as Tom Stall, a quiet family man and owner of a small-town diner. When two vicious punks roll into Stall's restaurant waiving their firearms in the air, Tom reacts instinctively by dispatching the visitors with deadly force.
(09/22/05 4:00am)
Four-time Academy Award nominee David Lynch, director of such contemporary classics as The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, is currently touring colleges around the U.S. to extoll the virtues of transcendental meditation. In preparation for his speech to Philadelphia students at Harrison Auditorium next Wednesday, Sept. 28 he talked to Street about his life, his films and, of course, transcendental meditation.
(09/15/05 4:00am)
For a romantic comedy that borrows considerably from Ghost, Just Like Heaven is about three times sweeter and funnier than it has any right to be. With the help of director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday), what should have been another saccharine, forgettable Reese Witherspoon vehicle -- and she's made plenty of them -- is actually a nicely crafted fantasy with a dynamic supporting cast.
(03/31/05 5:00am)
In My Country does not take place in South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996, in which the many victims of the brutal apartheid regime confronted their torturers. It purports to, but any reasonable moviegoer can tell you that when every scene of a film is an awkward confrontation, every piece of dialogue a wooden rhetorical device and every character an idiot, South Africa has most definitely been jettisoned for Movie Land.
(12/02/04 5:00am)
Oliver Stone's bloated new epic Alexander is really, really gay. Overt male homoeroticism pervades almost every other scene. There are naked boys wrestling, moments of overzealous petting and even Alexander (Colin Farrell) making out with his confidant Hephaistion (Jared Leto). In fact, there are almost no women in the whole film -- Angelina Jolie's role as Alexander's tempestuous mother Olympias is showy but short, and Alexander's wife Roxane (the breathtaking Rosario Dawson) is hardly a presence in the film's 173-minute running time. The bulk of the movie is comprised of a bunch of white guys talking, hugging and fighting.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
Before Dr. Alfred Kinsey's 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male exploded onto the bestseller list, Americans believed all sorts of crazy things about sex: that masturbation causes blindness, dancing spreads venereal disease and wearing high heels can make a woman sterile. Amidst the sexually inhibitive postwar social atmosphere, Kinsey shed light on the "deviant" activities that most Americans actually practiced -- and revealed the gaping dearth of sexual education imposed by "morality disguised as fact."
(10/28/04 4:00am)
Don't bother seeing Saw, a stupefyingly stupid exercise in cinematic sadism. Written and directed by two Australian newcomers, this surprise Sundance Film Festival hit spirals into convolution from scene one.