Film & TV

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.
December 2, 2009 at 11:37 pm

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.
December 2, 2009 at 11:33 pm

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.
November 24, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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.
November 23, 2009 at 8:52 pm

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.
November 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm

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.
November 23, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Fantastic Mr. Fox is like watching a fusion of Ocean’s Eleven and Over the Hedge on three tabs of acid.
November 23, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Almost everyone is familiar with the admonishment, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” But what if the proverbial “messenger” has already braved gunfire overseas?
November 19, 2009 at 1:14 am

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.
November 19, 2009 at 1:12 am

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.
November 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Every year, countless films claim to be the “feel-good movie of the year” and fail to pack the promised emotional punch.
November 18, 2009 at 9:01 pm

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.
November 18, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Clashing Personalities Based on the works of J.D. Salinger, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) boasts the ultimate example of a dysfunctional family.
November 18, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Street chatted with the stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden and director Richard Kelly about existentialism, picking out a soundtrack and college memories.
November 12, 2009 at 2:03 am

Nothing about Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire caters to the faint-of-heart, not the gutsy acting or the manic camerawork or the shocking content.
November 12, 2009 at 12:12 am

Sound? Check. Fury? Check. The above signifying absolutely nothing? Check. This is apocalypse filmmaker extraordinaire Roland Emmerich’s (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) newest work: 2012. It's a preposterous and bloated spectacle that gleefully destroys the entire world without examining the humanity behind it. Geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and colleagues discover that the end of the world is near, which means that fantastic earthquakes will soon tear apart the Earth’s crust.
November 12, 2009 at 12:01 am

Given Pirate Radio’s impressive pedigree, it should have been great. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, responsible for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually, its talented cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy.
November 11, 2009 at 11:54 pm

No one in their right mind would call any Pauly Shore movie a work of cinematic genius. The gags are usually cheap, and the style of humor is pretty juvenile.
November 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Street sat down with Nick Prueher, co-creator of the funny and bizarre Found Footage Festival, to discuss the roots of his underground tribute to the now ancient VHS tape.
November 11, 2009 at 11:46 pm

Think of The Fourth Kind as the illegitimate child of The Blair Witch Project and Alien. Presented in a faux-documentary style, Olatunde Osunsanmi’s first feature follows Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) as she investigates alien abductions in the small town of Nome, Alaska.
November 4, 2009 at 9:24 pm