Film & TV
Guilty Pleasure: Hocus Pocus (1993)
It’s 1 p.m. in mid–October and you’re surfing channels instead of going to class.
Penn Leaders Share Their Favorite Horror Movies
With Halloween right around the corner, Street decided to catch up with some of Penn’s campus leaders about their favorite spooky films. Lauren Yates, Excelano Project Director My favorite horror film by far is Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie. The number of bad remakes alone prove the awesomeness of this film.
A One-Day Preview Of the Philadelphia Film Festival
The festival’s most highly anticipated films — and the ones worth skipping work for.
What Not to See at the Philadelphia Film Festival
The Philadelphia Film Festival begins today and ends November 3rd, and since you can’t make it to every screening, you better know which to avoid.
A Lesson in Distraction: Best of Netflix Instant
It’s midterm season, which means that your time spent on Netflix is likely to increase exponentially.
Review: Take Shelter
Nichols’ latest leaves us wanting more, in a good way.
Are Musical Theater Adaptations Done?
The last 10 years have brought a resurgence of musical theater adaptations… but has the trend come to term? After all, the show can’t go on forever. Just look at Cats.
Bring Back the Bacon
The latest Footloose remake misses a beat
Et Tu, Ryan Gosling: The Ides of March wins our vote
Ides of March is a film full of political clichés: the seductive teenaged intern, the idealistic thirty-something campaign manager, and the handsome two-faced politician.
Review: What's Your Number
What’s Your Number delivers easy laughs without aiming too high.
Review: Is 50/50 Really 50 Out of 50?
Joseph Gordon–Levitt delivers a heartfelt performance in this unique dramedy.
As Told By Penn: Sex Scenes
We caught up with a few Penn personalities and asked for their favorite sex scenes.
Machine Gun Preacher Review: The Most Messed Up Preacher You'll Ever Meet
The man makes the movie, but the movie doesn’t quite make the man.
On Screen: Sex Edition
Street takes you through some of the hottest scenes that you won’t be embarrassed to watch in Van Pelt.
Interview with Machine Gun Preacher's Sam Childers
Street had the unique opportunity to sit down with the real Machine Gun Preacher to talk about his work in Africa, the testimonies we all carry and how if he was still doing wrong, God wouldn’t have let him get so far. Street: Could you tell us a bit about your life before you found God and your cause? Sam Childers: I was a pretty rough guy.
Review: Killer Not-So-Elite
Love of action required, attention span optional.
Street Film Presents: Our Picks for The Best of Fall
[poll id=7] A Dangerous Method Plot: Legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Mortenson) and his protégé Carl Jung (Fassbender) have overlapping relationships with the beautiful and disturbed Sabina Spielrein. Reasoning: The Mortenson–Fassbender combo is enough to get us to see this opening weekend (maybe more than once), but it’s the recent legacy of Cronenberg’s films (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) that has us anxious. Potential Downfall: Keira Knightly’s Russian accent. The Skin I Live In Plot: A surgeon (Banderas) works to develop a damage-resistant synthetic skin with a test subject who is linked to his tragic past. Reasoning: Almodóvar knows how to get under our skin with past Spanish–language emotional rollercoasters like Bad Education and Talk to Her, but it’s Banderas’ ability to find the pitch–perfect balance between revenge and stoicism that creeps us out the most. Potential Downfall: Graphic home biolabs might not be for everyone. Like Crazy Plot: The romance between a British and an American college student is torn apart when her she’s deported due to an expired visa. Reasoning: This quiet indie piqued our interest when it won the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, but the trailer featuring delicate and love–lorn shots of the two young stars captured our hearts without seeming cliche. Potential Downfall: We don’t need another Blue Valentine quite yet. J.
