Film & TV
Guilty Pleasures: Heathers (1988)
To no one’s surprise, Mean Girls 2 (yes, it exists) didn’t live up to the high expectations set by its predecessor.
Interview: Director of Blue Valentine
Street chatted with Derek Cianfrance about Tom Waits, ukuleles and that pesky NC-17 rating.
The Ins and Outs of 2011
If there is one lesson film critics learned in 2010, it was that bad movies can’t be masked by 3D glasses or devoted comic book fans.
Defibrillator: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The black comedy is a delicate genre that often toes the line between hilarity and offense, usually landing squarely on one side or the other.
Interview: Director of Blue Valentine
STREET: What is the meaning of the title of the film? Derek Cianfrance: It’s an homage to Tom Waits.
Review: True Grit
How dare they remake the film that earned John Wayne his only Oscar! Such is the resounding cry of film scholars and devoted fans of the Duke alike.
Ask Gloria
Joke Issue: Dear Gloria, My daughter Mildred has just turned 16, and I’m worried stiff about her future.
Hollywood Goes Really Really Gay
Joke Issue: By Floyd Alistair Wallace Times sure ain’t peachy out there. Falling stocks, Dillinger’s violent escape from the Hotsquat and Dust Bowl winds that make the blizzard gusts in The Gold Rush look like hogwash are sure to make you want to crawl up in bed after collecting faggots for the fire. But don’t be a total pansy.
Deja Vu: I Ate My Shoe
Joke Issue: Let me tell you something: there ain’t a straight–shooter in Hollywood more ace than Charlie Chaplin! I was no butter–and–egg man before the crash.
Interview With Bela Lugosi
Joke Issue On the eve of The Black Cat’s release, Street caught up with Bela Lugosi, who has been a Hollywood sensation since his 1931 performance as Count Dracula.
Deja Vu: Civetbusters
Where does Larry King belong in relation to Ghostbusters? If you answered that he probably knows the famous spectral exterminators well, having been mistaken as a walking corpse by countless concerned citizens, you would be wrong. Mr. King can thank the civet cat for providing him with the enviable status of being only one degree of separation shy of the 1984 classic. After a nice meal and some r–and–r the night before Thanksgiving, my recently–reunited family settled down for some bonding time.
Review: Black Swan
Black Swan begins with an exhilarating ballet number. The camera circles continuously around Nina (Portman) as she performs Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, a ballet that requires her to adopt the personalities of both the “White Swan” and the “Black Swan.” The cinematography and choreography are breathtaking as the number progresses, slowly spiraling out of control as the dark side increasingly takes over. This tension between the bipolar personalities of Swan Lake’s protagonist drives the film, as Nina embodies the White Swan’s grace and fragility but cannot quite demonstrate the manic intensity required to play the Black Swan.
Review: The Fighter
It’s telling that The Fighter is named as such. A more descriptive title might have been “The Boxer,” but this is not a biopic about boxing.
Interview: Cast Of “The Fighter”
It’s late afternoon on a cloudy day in Los Angeles, and everyone in the press room has a reason to be nervous.
Review: Faster
Faster’s unoriginal and awful title suggests a forgettable experience, and unfortunately the film’s content does nothing to counteract our initial impression.
Operation!
In 127 Hours, Aron Ralston’s lower arm joins one of the many body parts lost to the world of celluloid.
Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part I
As is the problem with all book adaptations, the Harry Potter movies struggle between appeasing pedantic super fans and providing enough modification to warrant a cinematic retelling.
