Film & TV

Instead of doing schoolwork, Street Film spent much of last week obsessively attending Philadelphia Film Festival screenings.
October 28, 2010 at 2:39 am

This past Saturday saw the discovery of a drug lab in a freshman dorm at Georgetown. The whole story had “perfect scandal” written all over it: college kids at an elite school, making their own drugs from the comfort of their Twin XL–equipped room!
October 28, 2010 at 2:37 am

At the beginning of Stone, parole officer Jack Malbry’s (De Niro) wife Madylyn (Conroy) announces she is leaving him.
October 21, 2010 at 3:03 am

Both Paranormal Activity 2 and Hereafter deal with the tenuous border between the living and the dead.
October 21, 2010 at 2:50 am

In Hereafter, every character has been touched by death. The serious television journalist from France sputters water after surviving the 2004 tsunami.
October 21, 2010 at 2:48 am

Betty Anne Waters almost single–handedly got her wrongly–accused brother, Kenny, out of jail. For almost 20 years, she studied law, pursued witnesses and collected DNA evidence to prove his innocence.
October 21, 2010 at 2:45 am

Film Festivals are fun — no doubt about it. What isn’t fun is boarding the terror train back to West Philly in the middle of the night. This weekend, the Film Editors held each other tight as they faced disgruntled riders, flash mobs and a near gang–war.
October 21, 2010 at 2:42 am

A mental ward serves as the backdrop for indie quirkiness Here’s a funny story: the directors of Half Nelson decided to make a lighthearted comedy.
October 14, 2010 at 3:01 am

Tonight at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Darren Aronofsky’s highly-anticipated Black Swan will kick off 10 days of geeky cinema appreciation.
October 14, 2010 at 2:53 am

In Red, Frank Moses (Willis) is a retired CIA operative who just can’t kick his gun powder habit.
October 14, 2010 at 2:46 am

Released just in time for John Lennon’s 70th birthday (but almost a year after it came out in the UK), Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy portrays the early life of eventual nowhere man John Lennon.
October 14, 2010 at 2:41 am

My Dog Tulip, an animated film directed by Penn Design professor Paul Fierlinger, opens today at the Ritz.
October 1, 2010 at 11:23 am

Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school. American public schools once produced 100 Nobel laureates and 10 Presidents.
September 30, 2010 at 4:17 am

By contrasting the radically different relationships of two couples, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, presents a sincere, yet staid picture of love among middle-aged adults.
September 30, 2010 at 3:37 am

It’s official, we’re infested! Only New York City has more cases of bedbugs than Philadelphia, and they aren’t expected to go away anytime soon. While you are probably in the clear, it’s nevertheless easy to become paranoid.
September 30, 2010 at 3:35 am

Before Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest billionaire, he was as awkward at talking to women as anyone in Skirkanich Hall. The opening sequence of The Social Network depicts a rapid-fire, cringe-worthy exchange between Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and his girlfriend.
September 30, 2010 at 3:29 am

JESSE EISENBERG Street: What is your relationship to Facebook?
September 30, 2010 at 3:13 am

Street sat down with Jesse Eisenberg and Aaron Sorkin to discuss interactive media, fencing and the real men behind the story.
September 30, 2010 at 3:04 am

“Why won’t anyone take me seriously?” asks Joaquin Phoenix in I’m Still Here, a “documentary” about the star’s bizarre transition from acting to rapping.
September 23, 2010 at 4:33 am

Alexander McQueen’s passing in February was easily the biggest tragedy to hit the fashion world since the Orange Mocha Frappuccino “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” gasoline freak fire of ’01. Not to be outdone by their fictional Zoolander counterparts, the fashion elite gathered this week in a virtual reenactment of Rufus, Brint and Meekus's funeral to pay tribute to the late designer. Anna Wintour delivered the heartfelt eugoogly, no doubt sporting her signature sunglasses, mirroring Derek’s unforgettable blue-steel tinted frames. Naomi Campbell channeled Katinka Ingabogovinanana in feathers, dressed as a Greek fury. Sarah Jessica Parker, keeping it somber with a tasteful beehive not topping out at more than 10 or 12 inches, might have cast a critical eye at her fellow mourners, asking in typical voice-over fashion: “I couldn’t help but wonder, were these people here to pay tribute to a great man, or to try and one-up each other with their batshit crazy getups?” But what does it matter, Carrie?
September 23, 2010 at 4:29 am