Film & TV
EllE Is Dead
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.
It's like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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.
Inspirational Carjacking
Crash is a film that looks at the separate lives of a seemingly unrelated group of multi-ethnic people living in LA.
Gripping, no?
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.
A lot like shit
You've got to try pretty hard to make a movie with a plot line as pathetic as A Lot Like Love's.
Philadelphia Film Festival: Week 2
The 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival will continue through April 20th and this marks Street's second week of extensive coverage.
Van wilder gets scary-like
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.
Philadelphia Film Festival
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.
I loved you in 'Dazed and Confused'
"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.
Red Sox, Sex and Breathing
Fever Pitch is, essentially, identical to every other effervescent Drew Barrymore comedy released in the past five years.
Where's your pound now?
Millions is one of those rare films with witty dialogue that appeals to viewers of all ages.
Ending on a happy note
Danny Boyle directed Trainspotting, your favorite movie about heroin, and shortly thereafter you became a junkie.
A Total Bummer
In My Country does not take place in South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996, in which the many victims of the brutal apartheid regime confronted their torturers.
Holy Pancakes, Batman
Aliens of the Deep would've been better in 3-D. The IMAX film follows producer/director James Cameron as he befriends a team of marine biologists as well as NASA scientists and travels to tectonic fault lines at the bottom of the ocean.
We got a case of the Mondays
Street is all about helping out the local movie house peddling cheap liquor on a Monday night.
Don't Punk Me, Ass
When will Ashton Kutcher learn his lesson? Certain people are off limits. He can't go around "punking" everyone, especially Bernie Mac. In Kevin Rodney Sullivan's Guess Who, Kutcher plays Simon Green, a successful young stockbroker who is engaged to Theresa Jones (Zoe Saldana). When Theresa's parents renew their wedding vows on their 25th anniversary, Theresa takes it as an opportunity to introduce her parents to her white fiance.
Silverstone rises from the dead
From the producers of Barbershop and Bringing Down the House, Beauty Shop transports the ethos of the "ghetto" Barbershop to a women's salon.
Review: The Pacifier
A Navy Seal turns in his helicopters and semi-automatics to navigate the perils of suburbia: diapers, diapers, diapers (let's just say excrement-related humor abounds) and darned kids who simply refuse to wear their tracking devices.
Disney Disses Harvard
"From small town Mathlete to big time Athlete," says the movie poster. Sounds promising, eh? Ice Princess is only watchable if you bring a punching bag for irritating Joan Cusack moments.
