Film & TV
Deja Vu: A Very Brady Priceless Artefact
Earlier this week, an ancient horse statue was recovered in Hawaii, barely escaping an attempted theft by an imposter posing as a Mrs. Carol Brady’s deceased husband, who had originally discovered the statue shortly before being murdered under mysterious circumstances. Mrs. Brady was kidnapped from her home in California by said imposter, who had integrated himself into the Brady family, taking the family for shopping trips and gifting Mike Brady’s son, Peter, with a pair of nunchucks. The imposter was discovered by super sleuths and step–siblings Bobby and Cindy Brady, who had recently been given a detective kit. The entire incident is thought to be Jan Brady’s fault. Well, that’s almost how it happened.
Review: Monsters
Despite its title, the number of alien creatures in Monsters is relatively low. The buzz emanating from this budget indie certainly isn’t on account of the film’s surprise scares or special effects. The earth has been infected by specimens of another life form travelling back into orbit from a spacecraft that crashed over Mexico.
Review: Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Elliot Spitzer
Early on in Alex Gibney’s well-crafted documentary film, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced Governor looks dead into the camera and remarks of his downfall, “It’s not a new story.” He’s absolutely right, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating story to be told. The film provides a detailed (if biased) account of a man who used his aggressive style as Attorney General of New York to catapult himself to the Governorship, only to allow excessive personal vices, in the form of four-figure “escorts,” to destroy his political career.
Deja Vu: Psycho On The Run
“A boy’s best friend is his mother,” said Norman Bates… or perhaps the man who recently ran off with his mother’s corpse.
Review: Morning Glory
Romantic comedies have long struggled with sexism, despite their being targeted toward a female audience.
A Guide To Recognizing Your Cinema Courses
Registration is no doubt competitive for students trying to snag the best courses, but did you know that it’s competitive for professors as well?
Review: Tamara Drewe
Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, High Fidelity) may very well be the most interesting and prolific British filmmaker of the past half century.
Review: Four Lions
A comedy about jihad is certain to cause a stir, and indeed Four Lions made headlines at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.
For Mature Eyes Only
Last week we profiled two films featured at the Philadelphia Film Festival that have struggled with NC–17 ratings, known to be box office poison.
Deja Vu: Charlie's Hangover
Withhold thine judgment, middle America! Let he who has never gotten coked up and naked with a pornstar and trashed his Plaza hotel room while on a family vacation cast the first stone.
Review: For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry’s latest film, based on Ntozake Shange's award–winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, follows the trials and tribulations of several black women, played by big names like Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah!
Review: Due Date
It takes a lot to make a movie starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. anything less than extraordinary, but somehow Due Date manages to do this with surprising ease.
Recap Of The Philly Film Fest
Instead of doing schoolwork, Street Film spent much of last week obsessively attending Philadelphia Film Festival screenings.
Deja Vu: The Rules Of Drug Labs
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!
Review: Stone
At the beginning of Stone, parole officer Jack Malbry’s (De Niro) wife Madylyn (Conroy) announces she is leaving him.
R.I.P. Hotline
Both Paranormal Activity 2 and Hereafter deal with the tenuous border between the living and the dead.
Review: Hereafter
In Hereafter, every character has been touched by death. The serious television journalist from France sputters water after surviving the 2004 tsunami.
Conviction's Verdict
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.
Deja Vu: Adventures In Film Festivals
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.
