Arts & Entertainment

Robbie Robertson Storyville 1991 Robbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriter from The Band, was always an amazing musician (everyone's soul aches, wishing they had written "The Weight"). Storyville, his second solo album, is a wonder, and though I've never seen it on anyone's shelf, it is filled with his most beautiful songs.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

"You mean actual flames?" "Yes." "Well, we can't set Mick Jagger on fire." It would be redundant.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

You're watching a movie with a couple of friends and that uncomfortable sex scene comes on screen. The actors aren't really having sex though, so it's okay to sneak a peek.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

Michael Haneke's Funny Games is Pirandello on steroids. Its portrayal of authorial caprice and wantonness all in the name of "entertainment" and "plausibility" is brutal, draining and eminently revealing.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is a movie that wants to be many things. It strives to be a movie about loving movies.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

If the last time you heard about the Balkans was when you wore your retainer in public, you should know that things have changed a bit.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

What audience is the Charlie Bartlett aimed at? When I first pitched to do the film, I said it's a movie for teenagers for anyone who has a teenager and anyone who ever was a teenager.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

The childhood bedtime story of the Ugly Duckling becomes a colorful modern fairytale in the film Penelope.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 1995 If you thought that rap about Colombian drug lords, guns and organized crime was pedestrian, think again.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Street: What makes Penelope a fresh take on a fairy tale? Christina Ricci: I think the writer uses that traditional structure to then inject this very powerful surprise, and to really make a statement in an impactful way that isn't necessarily patronizing. Street: How do you think this movie will impact young individuals? CR: I'm hoping that young people really like the movie.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Charlie Bartlett has been kicked out of every private high school he has ever attended. The last time he was expelled for running a fake ID laminating press out of his dorm room.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Tonight: Genghis Tron First Unitarian Church, All Ages It's been nearly two years since Genghis Tron left upstate New York and relocated themselves in West Philadelphia.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Unfortunately, too many people have passed on the Mountain Goats' extensive discography - 16 albums in total.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Garden State is not New Jersey - Zach Braff never even got caught in traffic on the Parkway. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, now studied assiduously at Penn alongside Citizen Kane, seems closer, at least stereotypically.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

To be cool. To be suave. To be Bogart. In Play It Again Sam, we witness one man's aspiration to be all of the above. Wildly imaginative and uncannily original, this neurotic comedy is arguably the best of Woody Allen's career.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Waking up early on a Saturday morning for a Ticketmaster pre-sale is never fun; what's worse is the bundle of extra charges you have to pay if you're lucky enough to snag a few seats.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Imagine that you're a film editor and a German director walks into your office and pitches this idea: "We're going to go into the middle of the Amazon, find a giant mountain straddling two rivers, blow it up and move a large boat across." Seriously. In Werner Herzog's 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo, one can watch roughly 1000 Amazon tribesmen move an actual steamboat over a mountain, a feat accomplished with no special effects.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

Director Ari Sandel wants you to cry. Whether you cry from laughing so hard that your abs feel like they've just been through Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo Boot Camp, or you're crying from the raw emotive power of each of the comedians' stories, there's no question that you'll find a little glisten on your cheeks after watching this film. Vince Vaughn's comedy tour took four amateur comedians and three professional ones on the road for a month in 2005 across the U.S.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am