Film & TV
Interview with Saoirse Ronan
Street had the opportunity to catch up with Oscar-nominated teenager Saoirse Ronan about her new film The Lovely Bones , Miley Cyrus, and why she picks such sad roles.
My Favorite Movie Ever
Oh my god, this movie is so awesome! Loves it! That guy Preston is, like, tres sexy! And the way he professes his love for the popular girl Amanda at the end?
Guilty Pleasures: Great Expectations (1998)
Usually movies based on books are boring, sad or both (The Horse Whisperer, anyone?), but Great Expectations is so much different.
Top 10 Mary-Kate And Ashley Movies Of All Time
OMG², Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are like the luckiest girls ever! They get to travel the world, hang out with famous grown-ups and make their own movies.
Brotherly Love
Ever since Cain killed Abel, brothers have been at each other’s throats in a fierce competition for success, respect and love.
Guilty Pleasures: Jawbreaker (1999)
The late '90s were saturated with teen comedies; almost formulaically, most of these films followed a predictable arc, incorporating high school cliques, romance, rebellion and of course… prom.
Less Than Fine
Based on Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Italian film Stanno Tutti Bene, Kirk Jones’s Everybody’s Fine presents a traditional holiday story told from a slightly different perspective — that of the middle-aged parent. In this family dramedy, Frank (Robert De Niro) is a newly widowed father who decides to surprise each of his children (Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell) with a visit after they cancel their planned trips home for a family weekend.
Reitman Takes Off
Street: Do you have a director’s playlist that you listen to for each movie that you do? Jason Reitman: Usually I have one song that gets me in the mood to write each film and strangely enough in all three of my movies that song has never [shown up]. For Thank You for Smoking, it was the song, “I’m a Man” by Steve Winwood.
Really Bad Lieutenant
A remake of an obscure, NC-17 cop drama, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Werner Herzog, sounds more like the result of a cinephile’s game of mad-libs than it does an actual movie.
Hit the Road
Considering the tremendous success of the last silver-screen adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel, No Country for Old Men, it’s no wonder studio giants The Weinstein Company seized the distribution rights for a movie version of the author’s latest Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Road. The eponymous film, the big-budget debut of Aussie director John Hillcoat, centers on an ailing but tenacious middle-aged man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son, some years after an unspecified cataclysm that has left the earth bleak and barren, extinguishing almost all human life in a maelstrom of earthquakes and flames.
Stunning Red Cliff
Don’t believe what the trailer says about “the fight of a few.” Red Cliff features some of the largest, most spectacular battles you’ve seen in the cinema for a while.
Crash Landing
There are a number of animated films that adults can love. Pixar’s impressive catalogue is full of hilarity and thoughtfulness that children cannot fully appreciate, and taking a child to see Wall-E or Up could hardly be considered a chore.
Furry and Fantastic
Fantastic Mr. Fox is like watching a fusion of Ocean’s Eleven and Over the Hedge on three tabs of acid.
Spread the Message
Almost everyone is familiar with the admonishment, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” But what if the proverbial “messenger” has already braved gunfire overseas?
Interview with the Messenger
34th Street: What made you decide to work on The Messenger? Oren Moverman: From my point of view, this is a project that started with an idea that my co-writer Alessandro Camon and I developed.
Guilty Pleasures: Daredevil (2003)
Daredevil follows the life of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day and superhero by night. Clad in a tight red suit and a mask for good measure, Affleck uses a deadly baton to beat away naughty criminals.
Tears and Cheers
Every year, countless films claim to be the “feel-good movie of the year” and fail to pack the promised emotional punch.
Under Twilight’s Spell
Admit it: you’re a total Twi-hard. Well, so are we. Street sat down with Elizabeth Reaser, who plays vampire mom Esme in the smash-hit series.
All in the Family
Clashing Personalities Based on the works of J.D. Salinger, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) boasts the ultimate example of a dysfunctional family.
