Film & TV
Review: Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin is a moderately effective flashback biography, worth seeing for Cate Blanchett's curious performance (one part fearlessness, two parts foolishness) as the titular expos‚ journalist. Guerin, Ireland's most recent martyr, jeopardized her family and lost her life for the cause of improved anti-drug legislation.
Reviews
Runaway Jury is a film about a landmark gun trial set in New Orleans. Plotwise, juror Nick Easter (Cusack) uses his influence and his girlfriend (Weisz) to sway the jury and blackmail lawyers on both sides.
Peppermint Patti
Street sat down with Patti Smith at her October 9 performance at the Free Library of Philadelphia to discuss her show at the ICA.
Anthony Hopkins is a black man
If you've waited your entire life to see Anthony Hopkins play a black guy, your time has come at last.
A real celebrity interview
Jack Black sat down with Street earlier this month at the Four Seasons to discuss his new movie, School of Rock, working with kids and his musical career.
Broken ovens and prostitutes
Director Peter Hedges and Actor Oliver Platt sat down at the Four Seasons to discuss their new film, Pieces of April, starring Katie Holmes. Street: Peter, what was it like directing a film for the first time? Peter Hedges: I'm so pleased with how the movie turned out and everyone who worked on the movie.
The same ol' Stifler
Seann William Scott teams up with The Rock in The Rundown, an action comedy light on plot and heavy on silly antics.
C-K models in the jungle
Jake 2.0 Wednesday 9 p.m., UPN Just call Jake Foley, played by Christopher Gorham, the Six Billion Dollar Spiderman.
Why Macaulay didn't make Home Alone 3
Titanic Jack and Rose find each other in the ocean. Jack is able to find a board and tells Rose to get on it and she will be safe.
Quick Flicks
Secondhand Lions This clich‚-riddled kiddie fare fascinates solely because the director completely wastes his stars' enormous talent.
Guilty Pleasure
I've admitted it before, and I'll admit it again: I love MTV's reality shows. Real World, Road Rules, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Fraternity Life, Sorority Life, True Life, The Osbournes, Newlyweds. They're all masterpieces, Shakespearean in their comedy, tragedy and poetry.
If you want to sing out, sing out
There is something difficult about watching an actor who was once pretty good starring in a vehicle which is almost patently bad.
Review: Dickie Roberts
David Spade gets the shaft. Maybe it's because he came of age with the last SNL cast to actually do something with their lives -- Chris Rock may never be Bill Cosby, but he'd beat Horatio Sans in any laugh-off know to man.
I'm not Velma, really
David Spade sat down with Street at the Four Seasons last week to talk about his new movie --in which he actually acts--occasionally. What was it like working with child actors on a film that's basically about how being a child actor screws you up? It's funny because I wanted them to be in the movie and I was like "I play, like, a loser - do you wanna come play yourself as a loser?" But they had a good sense of humor about it.
The hair, my God the hair!
Robert Rodriguez knows what he is doing, whether it be as director, producer, editor, or one of the many other titles he takes on in his latest and final installment of the "El Mariachi" trilogy.
American cheese
American Wedding is our generation's ultimate love story: the marriage of a pervert and his nymphomaniac lover.
Crazy Japanese pseduo-porn
Eh. You'd expect something different than what you get from a film about the Japanese porn industry titled Bastoni - The Stick Handlers. Come on, The Stick Handlers? This should have been a Porky's-type film that, instead of a de facto softcore porn, was actually porn mixed with comedy. Instead, we get a movie that is actually rather a sad story.
Guilty Pleasure
It's time to face facts: I'm hopelessly addicted to chick flicks. As emasculating and pathetic as that sounds, I really do think it has left me with some insight into the fairer sex.
Spell me a river
In the age of spell check and Internet slang, it's shocking to find those remaining few who still avidly read, study, and worship that old friend, the dictionary.
