Film & TV
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.
Review: It's Kind Of A Funny Story
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.
Philly Film Festival Preview
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.
Review: Red
In Red, Frank Moses (Willis) is a retired CIA operative who just can’t kick his gun powder habit.
Review: Nowhere Boy
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.
Interview with Paul Fierlinger
My Dog Tulip, an animated film directed by Penn Design professor Paul Fierlinger, opens today at the Ritz.
Review: Waiting For Superman
Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school. American public schools once produced 100 Nobel laureates and 10 Presidents.
Review: Jack Goes Boating
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.
