Arts & Entertainment

Four-time Academy Award nominee David Lynch, director of such contemporary classics as The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, is currently touring colleges around the U.S.
September 22, 2005 at 12:00 am

It's difficult to make a family comedy these days; the producers of Roll Bounce have learned that the hard way.
September 22, 2005 at 12:00 am

Seu Jorge ignited a samba fury during his sold-out show last Tuesday at the First Unitarian Church. Better known as the minstrel seaman with a penchant for acoustic Portuguese renditions of David Bowie classics in last year's The Life Aquatic, Jorge has emerged from humble beginnings in the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become a hot import in both the film and music worlds. Jorge and his charismatic band commanded the packed audience of urban hipsters, ethno-musicologists, and Brazilian fanatics with their no-frills local samba stylings.
September 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

It's difficult to categorize Lord of War, the newest release from Gattaca director (and The Terminal writer) Andrew Niccol about an underground arms dealer's rise from rags to riches.
September 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

Michael Showalter doesn't think there's anything funny about Brooklyn. The actor-cum-writer-cum-director, renowned for playing Coop in Wet Hot American Summer (a film he co-wrote) and for his involvement in "Stella" on Comedy Central, has just released The Baxter, his directorial debut.
September 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

Kanye West stands as a fascinating figure in music today. The Chicago producer-turned-MC blends bourgeois intellectualism with lower-class sympathy, swagger with insecurity.
September 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

For a romantic comedy that borrows considerably from Ghost, Just Like Heaven is about three times sweeter and funnier than it has any right to be.
September 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

You've got to try pretty hard to make a movie with a plot line as pathetic as A Lot Like Love's.
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

It's Thursday afternoon and outside the front entrance to the Theatre of Living Arts are two middle-aged men.
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

T he Interpreter, a well acted and politically relevant film, begins as U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) overhears a plot to assassinate Edmund Zuwanie, the president of the fictitious and war-torn African country Matobo.
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

Crash is a film that looks at the separate lives of a seemingly unrelated group of multi-ethnic people living in LA.
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

Hong Kong-made Kung Fu Hustle features Stephen Chow, who happens to be the new martial arts "it" man. The film, set in '40s Shanghai, follows Sing (Chow), an alliance-shifting street rat who is caught in a gang war between the dreaded Axe Gang and the Pigsty Alley slum.
April 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

The 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival will continue through April 20th and this marks Street's second week of extensive coverage.
April 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

Joshua Radin missed out. He missed out big, and he knows it. When Radin's college buddy Zach asked him to contribute a song to his upcoming movie's soundtrack, Radin turned him down; he didn't have the money to record the track.
April 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

Kevin Lo Norah Jones - "The Long Way Home" Jazz or not jazz, it's hard to deny the simple power of Norah Jones.
April 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

On the evening of November 14, 1974, in the small town of Amityville in Long Island, Ronald "Ronny" Defeo murdered his parents and four siblings with a shotgun.
April 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

Phoenix has a problem with sound check, and I don't speak French. Lead singer Thomas Mars turns to the engineer on his right, points at his microphone, then waves his hand in an upward motion.
April 7, 2005 at 12:00 am

From April 7-20, movie theaters across the city will participate in the Philadelphia Film Festival. Visit the festival's website (www.phillyfests.com) for more information on the movies and their screenings.
April 7, 2005 at 12:00 am

"Meat out there on the table, that's gonna be my breakfast, lunch and dinner," actor Matthew McConaughey jokes as he steps out of his trailer.
April 7, 2005 at 12:00 am

Fever Pitch is, essentially, identical to every other effervescent Drew Barrymore comedy released in the past five years.
April 7, 2005 at 12:00 am