Film & TV
Movie Magic
Captain Disillusion stares at the camera and utters, "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else." This post-enlightenment superhero, whose face is partially coated in metallic silver paint, is at once seriously goofy and playfully skeptical.
Shake Up in the Holy Land
Unsettled, a documentary by Adam Hootnick, tells the story of six young adults living in Israel during the summer of 2005, when the Jewish state made the controversial decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip.
Internet Video of the Week: History Boys
History majors, bottoms up! If you know anything relevant about Ben Franklin, you've been going to too many classes.
This Movie Is Inebri-RATED
You've probably experienced that Friday night when you've got your party shoes on, but no party to attend.
Carmen Sandiego's Protege
The 2004 smash-hit documentary Super Size Me introduced the world to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock's latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, targets a far bigger foe than obesity.
A Phoenix Like Fawkes
Phoenixology - the graceful art of death and rebirth - lies at the center of French director Jean Cocteau's final film, Le Testament d'Orph
The Real News Reel
Based on the comic adventures of a young journalist, two big-screen adaptations of Tintin will be arriving in theaters in 2009.
Paranoid Perk
Paranoid Park is Gus Van Sant's latest foray into the psyche of discarded American youths. It is a contemporary Crime and Punishment, which recreates Dostoevsky's world of introspection, tension and guilt in Portland, Oregon's skate parks.
In Case You Missed It
I used to think only pretentious deviants with spectacles lowered halfway down their noses liked foreign films.
Cinema Graphic Novels
5. From Hell (Adapted from From Hell by Alan Moore) A 2001 Jack the Ripper flick starring Johnny Depp, From Hell pretty much sandbagged in the box office.
Internet Video of the Week
The video entitled "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" catapulted its creator, crazed Britney fan Chris Crocker, out of the dark corners of Internet obscurity and into the spotlight.
Iraqi War Inspires Triteness, Cliches
Poignant, pertinent and made with noble intentions, Stop-Loss aims at greatness only to slide into mediocrity.
Because Steven Spielberg Is Getting Old
If the phrase "student film" makes you think of last night's exploits splashed across YouPorn.com, you haven't embraced the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF). A contest for Philadelphia-area university students, the festival gives awards in five different categories.
The Propaganda Trajectory
When one thinks of the word propaganda, the image of an American flag raised above soldiers dressed in camouflage comes to mind.
Profile: Terrence Malick
Anyone who asks you, "Who's your favorite director?" deserves to be a Cinema Studies major. Punch the pretentious asshole in the face, but do please answer him.
Huffin and Puffin
Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) seems to be making it his business to play the 30-something loser who snags the ultra hot, and of course terribly sweet, girl.
Never Back Down
If you like watching actors/models kick and punch their way through a nonexistent plot, this film is for you.
Needle in a Haystack
Currently studying abroad in Australia, I live a block from the beach, enjoy daily 80-degree weather and meet beautiful girls with accents.
'N' Is For Nollywood
The tides of globalization swept across Africa long before Kofi Annan joined the UN or Akon "smacked that". Wed to Asian, European and American influences, many of the continent's cultural practices are syncretic responses to outside technologies, politics and aesthetics.
