Arts & Entertainment
Film
Throw it Back
Catch and Release is no work of art, and the filmmakers know it. In one scene, a character flat out remarks that mainstream flicks today provide more gimmicks and cheap thrills than commercials.
by KEVIN KOPLAN
Film
WAWA-WEEWAH
Like Steve Nash or a fine wine, Clint Eastwood is getting better and better in his old age.
A companion piece to October's Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima tells the story of the infamous World War II Battle of Iwo Jima from the point of view of the Japanese soldiers.
by JONAH PLATT
Music
Sweet Emo-Shin
In contrast to the experimental proclivities of his more "freakish" Drag City labelmates (John Fahey, Six Organs of Admittance, White Magic), the more traditional folk of Scottish singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts seems tame, and perhaps even quaint.
by MATT WALSH
Film
The Write Stuff
Freedom Writers, written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, holds no surprises. It tells a familiar story: a young, eager teacher enters an urban high school classroom full of poor kids with no futures.
by JESS PURCELL
Film
Meryl Street is my life
I love Meryl Street.
No. Seriously...I kind of want to marry her. And we could live on a small ranch in North Dakota while I raised her children (Who cares if they're about my age?
by MR. MERYL STREET
Film
Meryl Street is a Fucking Genius
Sometimes, I just like to shut out the world, slip into something slinky, and have a little me time, a little Meryl time.
by MERYL STREET
Music
meryl and the streets
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Meryl and the Streets
"We were pretty much just chillin'," lead singer Jason E.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Druggie Delight
In 2002's Adaptation, Meryl Street was her typical self: a leggy and lean, blond, prim New Yorker; a successful writer in a tall office building, middle-aged and respectable, even slightly untouchable for some of the other characters.
by MERYL BRIGHT
Film
'Kramer vs. Kramer'
In an snafu which garnered much controversy recently, Seinfeld star Michael Richards caused an uproar after a racist rant at a comedy club.
by MERYL ZUCKERMAN
Music
The fort knox of poon
You could be hung with an Oscar and two Golden Globes, but if you can't set the stage like a Hollywood pro, you ain't getting near that white orchid.
by MERYL BARNIMUM T. GRABARSKY
Film
That Meryl is one Fine Piece of Ace
I know what you're thinking. Does Meryl Street really have the kind of tits I'd like to see drunkenly bouncing around behind lime green triangles of Nylon Lycra?
by MERYL HOLM
Music
It's a listening party!
"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above"
by CSS
Joe: At first I wasn't sure I liked it, but then Vince turned the bass up.
by ALEX JACOBS
Film
Bobby's World
Unfolding within a single day at the iconic Ambassador Hotel in 1968 Los Angeles, Bobby is a fictionalized account of the events leading up to presidential hopeful Robert F.
by APRIL HAIL
Film
Ghetto fabulous
Like his emotionally explosive films (The Notebook and John Q among them), Nick Cassavetes's mere appearance demands attention.
by JEFF LEVIN
Film
I want blow now, daddy!
Boy, that heroin stuff sure is bad news bears.
Candy, Australian director Neil Armfield's adaptation of Luke Davies's novel, does little more than leave us with that very conclusion.
by LIZ HOLM
Music
Total clipse of the heart
No, it's not We Got It 4 Cheap: Vol. 2.
That mixtape was a flamethrower to the safe houses major label rappers found themselves in, circa 2005.
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Film
Blasphemy
A film has been made that so embodies the holiday spirit that it will be thought of for years to come as the quintessential Christmas movie.
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Music
To blog or not to blog
Mp3 blogs will become your life. As you read these words, thousands of self-anointed music experts in thick plastic glasses and headphones are furiously posting, downloading, and analyzing fresh tracks from The Knife and Of Montreal, alongside deep cuts from dusty LPs of their parents' generation.
by STEVE MCLAUGHLIN
Film
An unconventional biography
Fur tells the truly interesting, and sometimes eerie, true story of a 1950s housewife (Nicole Kidman) who yields to her dark curiosities and discovers her inner artist.
by ASHLEY BENTON
Film
Addicts not-so anyonymous
Heroin Town
4.5 Stars
Directed by: Josh Goldbloom
Not Rated
In 2003, "60 Minutes II" devoted a show to Willimantic, Connecticut.
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