Film & TV
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.
Be Kind, Check This Find
Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is a movie that wants to be many things. It strives to be a movie about loving movies.
Definitely A Contact Sport
Michael Haneke's Funny Games is Pirandello on steroids. Its portrayal of authorial caprice and wantonness all in the name of "entertainment" and "plausibility" is brutal, draining and eminently revealing.
Coitus Legitimus
You're watching a movie with a couple of friends and that uncomfortable sex scene comes on screen. The actors aren't really having sex though, so it's okay to sneak a peek.
Pure Illumination
"You mean actual flames?" "Yes." "Well, we can't set Mick Jagger on fire." It would be redundant.
Cross-Cultural Trumpeting
So this Egyptian police band walks into a remote Israeli town. After strong showings at every major film festival over the past six months, The Band's Visit finally opens in Philadelphia on Friday.
Profile: Woody Allen
To be cool. To be suave. To be Bogart. In Play It Again Sam, we witness one man's aspiration to be all of the above. Wildly imaginative and uncannily original, this neurotic comedy is arguably the best of Woody Allen's career.
Garden State Wisdom
Garden State is not New Jersey - Zach Braff never even got caught in traffic on the Parkway. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, now studied assiduously at Penn alongside Citizen Kane, seems closer, at least stereotypically.
Got Adderall?
Charlie Bartlett has been kicked out of every private high school he has ever attended. The last time he was expelled for running a fake ID laminating press out of his dorm room.
Leaving casper behind, but still pale
Street: What makes Penelope a fresh take on a fairy tale? Christina Ricci: I think the writer uses that traditional structure to then inject this very powerful surprise, and to really make a statement in an impactful way that isn't necessarily patronizing. Street: How do you think this movie will impact young individuals? CR: I'm hoping that young people really like the movie.
No Nose Job Here
The childhood bedtime story of the Ugly Duckling becomes a colorful modern fairytale in the film Penelope.
Charlie Bartlett Interview
What audience is the Charlie Bartlett aimed at? When I first pitched to do the film, I said it's a movie for teenagers for anyone who has a teenager and anyone who ever was a teenager.
Spotlight On: The Balkans
If the last time you heard about the Balkans was when you wore your retainer in public, you should know that things have changed a bit.
FEBRUARY FILMS
We promise they're worth leaving the comfort of your house/boyfriend's arms/cocoon at Bucks. Free screening of Harlan County USA Feb.
So Nice, So Spice
At the risk of losing respect and friendship, I would like to turn your attention to a movie that I thoroughly enjoyed watching: Spice World, or as some call it, "that stupid Spice Girls marketing device." Those negative Nancies do have a point.
Jumping Away From Jumper
20th Century Fox's latest action flick Jumper might possibly be the most ill-conceived movie I have seen in some time.
