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Top 10 Mary-Kate And Ashley Movies Of All Time
OMG², Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are like the luckiest girls ever! They get to travel the world, hang out with famous grown-ups and make their own movies.
Study Jams
Math/Science: Trip Hop A number of us at Penn agree: math and science can be scary.
Defibrillator: Oklahoma! by Rogers and Hammerstein (1955)
Musicals are the worst. Nothing makes me want to dish out wedgies like a Broadway showstopper. Road trips are great, though — so great that they can make things like Roy Rogers and show tunes digestible. Every summer, my family drives 10 hours to visit my grandparents in Maine.
One Track Mind: 12.3.09
Vampire Weekend, “Cousins” Hear the first several iterations of “hey hey” in the beginning of “Cousins,” the new track from Vampire Weekend's forthcoming Contra, and you may be reminded of something very familiar: the band’s last album.
Monster of Pop
At first glance, Lady Gaga’s most recent release, The Fame Monster, looks like a typical moneymaking B-sides release attached at the hip to her debut hit-machine, The Fame. But don’t be fooled.
Brotherly Love
Ever since Cain killed Abel, brothers have been at each other’s throats in a fierce competition for success, respect and love.
Guilty Pleasures: Jawbreaker (1999)
The late '90s were saturated with teen comedies; almost formulaically, most of these films followed a predictable arc, incorporating high school cliques, romance, rebellion and of course… prom.
Less Than Fine
Based on Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Italian film Stanno Tutti Bene, Kirk Jones’s Everybody’s Fine presents a traditional holiday story told from a slightly different perspective — that of the middle-aged parent. In this family dramedy, Frank (Robert De Niro) is a newly widowed father who decides to surprise each of his children (Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell) with a visit after they cancel their planned trips home for a family weekend.
Reitman Takes Off
Street: Do you have a director’s playlist that you listen to for each movie that you do? Jason Reitman: Usually I have one song that gets me in the mood to write each film and strangely enough in all three of my movies that song has never [shown up]. For Thank You for Smoking, it was the song, “I’m a Man” by Steve Winwood.
Really Bad Lieutenant
A remake of an obscure, NC-17 cop drama, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Werner Herzog, sounds more like the result of a cinephile’s game of mad-libs than it does an actual movie.
Hit the Road
Considering the tremendous success of the last silver-screen adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel, No Country for Old Men, it’s no wonder studio giants The Weinstein Company seized the distribution rights for a movie version of the author’s latest Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Road. The eponymous film, the big-budget debut of Aussie director John Hillcoat, centers on an ailing but tenacious middle-aged man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son, some years after an unspecified cataclysm that has left the earth bleak and barren, extinguishing almost all human life in a maelstrom of earthquakes and flames.
Stunning Red Cliff
Don’t believe what the trailer says about “the fight of a few.” Red Cliff features some of the largest, most spectacular battles you’ve seen in the cinema for a while.
Crash Landing
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.
Furry and Fantastic
Fantastic Mr. Fox is like watching a fusion of Ocean’s Eleven and Over the Hedge on three tabs of acid.
Spread the Message
Almost everyone is familiar with the admonishment, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” But what if the proverbial “messenger” has already braved gunfire overseas?
Interview with the Messenger
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.
¡OMARVELOUS!
Nearly 20 years into his career as a genre-defying, envelope-pushing musician, Omar Rodríguez-López has yet to run out of ideas.
Circling Vultures
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.
Traversing the Music Twitterverse
Music fans know that Twitter is for more than just telling your friends where you’re sitting in Van Pelt.
