Arts & Entertainment
Review: The Fighter
It’s telling that The Fighter is named as such. A more descriptive title might have been “The Boxer,” but this is not a biopic about boxing.
Interview: Cast Of “The Fighter”
It’s late afternoon on a cloudy day in Los Angeles, and everyone in the press room has a reason to be nervous.
Review: Faster
Faster’s unoriginal and awful title suggests a forgettable experience, and unfortunately the film’s content does nothing to counteract our initial impression.
Operation!
In 127 Hours, Aron Ralston’s lower arm joins one of the many body parts lost to the world of celluloid.
Review: Matthew Izzo
Kill two birds with one stone at this charming furniture/clothing store hybrid. Shopping at Matthew Izzo is like entering a kitschy, candle-scented Wonderland, with wildly different items from African drums to delicate silver chains tempting your wallet in every direction.
Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part I
As is the problem with all book adaptations, the Harry Potter movies struggle between appeasing pedantic super fans and providing enough modification to warrant a cinematic retelling.
Review: 127 Hours
Aron Ralston traveled to a national park in Utah for a typical adventure involving rock climbing and hiking.
Deja Vu: A Very Brady Priceless Artefact
Earlier this week, an ancient horse statue was recovered in Hawaii, barely escaping an attempted theft by an imposter posing as a Mrs. Carol Brady’s deceased husband, who had originally discovered the statue shortly before being murdered under mysterious circumstances. Mrs. Brady was kidnapped from her home in California by said imposter, who had integrated himself into the Brady family, taking the family for shopping trips and gifting Mike Brady’s son, Peter, with a pair of nunchucks. The imposter was discovered by super sleuths and step–siblings Bobby and Cindy Brady, who had recently been given a detective kit. The entire incident is thought to be Jan Brady’s fault. Well, that’s almost how it happened.
One Track Mind: “Together Baby,” Ghostface Killah
One of Wu Tang’s most active members in the current music scene, Ghostface Killah shows no sign of slowing down, following up last year’s misguidedly R&B–centered Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City with The Apollo Kids, set for release Dec.
One Track Mind: “Car Crash,” Telekinesis
After a first listen, “Car Crash” seems like a major contradiction: the song’s airy, unmistakably happy hook draws us in while the morose opening lyrics question this upbeat nature.
Review: Kanye West, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”
Kanye West has a lot of haters. With his type of personality, it’s hard to imagine he wouldn’t.
Defibrillator: Belle & Sebastian, “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” (1996)
Though I was only five at the time of its 1996 release, my awkward adolescence was in full bloom by the time I discovered Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister in high school.
Review: Rihanna, Loud
Rihanna’s fifth album, Loud, celebrates sex, love, and having a good time — a stark contrast with the anger emanating from her previous album, Rated R.
Beats On The Streets
While we generally feel pretty good about our music choices, we often seek the opinions of our musically–inclined co–editors and friends to round out our iTunes libraries.
This Week in… 11.18.2010
MUSIC Sunday, Nov. 21: Concerts First presents the Next Big Thing Tour, The Trocadero, $15 What do Bedlight for Blue Eyes, the Early November, and the Josephine Collective have in common?
Guest Curator: Professor Julie N. Davis
This week Associate Professor of the History of Art and Art History Undergraduate Chair Julie Davis sits down with Street and talks about getting Zen, reincarnated tacos and why Philadelphia is a cultural force to be reckoned with.
Review: Michaelangelo Pistoletto At The PMA
Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has strewn the walls of the PMA with his artistic reflections in more ways than one.
Review: Monsters
Despite its title, the number of alien creatures in Monsters is relatively low. The buzz emanating from this budget indie certainly isn’t on account of the film’s surprise scares or special effects. The earth has been infected by specimens of another life form travelling back into orbit from a spacecraft that crashed over Mexico.
Review: Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Elliot Spitzer
Early on in Alex Gibney’s well-crafted documentary film, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced Governor looks dead into the camera and remarks of his downfall, “It’s not a new story.” He’s absolutely right, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating story to be told. The film provides a detailed (if biased) account of a man who used his aggressive style as Attorney General of New York to catapult himself to the Governorship, only to allow excessive personal vices, in the form of four-figure “escorts,” to destroy his political career.
