Arts & Entertainment

There are a number of animated films that adults can love. Pixar’s impressive catalogue is full of hilarity and thoughtfulness that children cannot fully appreciate, and taking a child to see Wall-E or Up could hardly be considered a chore.
November 23, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Fantastic Mr. Fox is like watching a fusion of Ocean’s Eleven and Over the Hedge on three tabs of acid.
November 23, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Almost everyone is familiar with the admonishment, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” But what if the proverbial “messenger” has already braved gunfire overseas?
November 19, 2009 at 1:14 am

34th Street: What made you decide to work on The Messenger? Oren Moverman: From my point of view, this is a project that started with an idea that my co-writer Alessandro Camon and I developed.
November 19, 2009 at 1:12 am

Nearly 20 years into his career as a genre-defying, envelope-pushing musician, Omar Rodríguez-López has yet to run out of ideas.
November 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm

The term supergroup has never been more applicable than in the case of Them Crooked Vultures, formed in 2005 by John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and Nirvana.
November 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Music fans know that Twitter is for more than just telling your friends where you’re sitting in Van Pelt.
November 18, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Simple, classic and beautiful, this soul song changed my whole relationship with Philadelphia. I visited the city with my parents while I was in middle school, and I knew little about it beyond the existence of the Liberty Bell.
November 18, 2009 at 11:44 pm

Simply put, you wish you were friends with Mike Posner. He’s an intelligent Duke senior, majoring in sociology and business, and a fun-loving frat boy to boot.
November 18, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Hot Chip, “Take it In” Synths? Check. British accents? Check. Neo-disco-ish, meditative grooves?
November 18, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Daredevil follows the life of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day and superhero by night. Clad in a tight red suit and a mask for good measure, Affleck uses a deadly baton to beat away naughty criminals.
November 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Every year, countless films claim to be the “feel-good movie of the year” and fail to pack the promised emotional punch.
November 18, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Admit it: you’re a total Twi-hard. Well, so are we. Street sat down with Elizabeth Reaser, who plays vampire mom Esme in the smash-hit series.
November 18, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Clashing Personalities Based on the works of J.D. Salinger, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) boasts the ultimate example of a dysfunctional family.
November 18, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Street chatted with the stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden and director Richard Kelly about existentialism, picking out a soundtrack and college memories.
November 12, 2009 at 2:03 am

Nothing about Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire caters to the faint-of-heart, not the gutsy acting or the manic camerawork or the shocking content.
November 12, 2009 at 12:12 am

Sound? Check. Fury? Check. The above signifying absolutely nothing? Check. This is apocalypse filmmaker extraordinaire Roland Emmerich’s (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) newest work: 2012. It's a preposterous and bloated spectacle that gleefully destroys the entire world without examining the humanity behind it. Geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and colleagues discover that the end of the world is near, which means that fantastic earthquakes will soon tear apart the Earth’s crust.
November 12, 2009 at 12:01 am

Given Pirate Radio’s impressive pedigree, it should have been great. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, responsible for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually, its talented cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy.
November 11, 2009 at 11:54 pm

No one in their right mind would call any Pauly Shore movie a work of cinematic genius. The gags are usually cheap, and the style of humor is pretty juvenile.
November 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Street sat down with Nick Prueher, co-creator of the funny and bizarre Found Footage Festival, to discuss the roots of his underground tribute to the now ancient VHS tape.
November 11, 2009 at 11:46 pm