Film & TV

Before John Travolta hammed it up in drag, the MGM movie/musical reigned supreme. Sure, Singin’ in the Rain may get all the credit in the history books, but dig deeper and you’ll discover a cinematic gem: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the story of the feisty tavern cook Milly and her search for love and family in 1850s Oregon. Unfortunately for Milly, when she marries backwoodsman Adam Pontipee, she’s forced to take care of his six brothers, who are blessed with the charm and manners of drunken Penn students at Fling.
April 16, 2009 at 12:00 am

Any will girl will tell you “it’s all about playing the game.” In A Game For Girls, director Matteo Rovere showcases the lives of four beautiful, wealthy Italian high school girls and the sinister tricks they play on others.
April 8, 2009 at 10:10 pm

Have you ever wondered why amusement park employees subject themselves to a summer of bumper cars and corn dogs?
April 8, 2009 at 10:07 pm

12 sets the tale of the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men in crooked modern-day Moscow. The 12 titular jurors must decide the fate of a young Chechen boy accused of murdering his stepfather.
April 8, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Giants, ogres and elves… oh my! I thought I’d outgrown fairy tales, but when Ella Enchanted, the film version of my favorite childhood novel, came to theaters, I was instantly, well, charmed.
April 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Sideways Stories from Wayside School Louis Sachar’s loopy series revolving around a 30-story elementary school has the perfect blend of wacky characters and winning story lines to translate onto the big screen.
April 8, 2009 at 9:48 pm

Street: So, much to my excitement, The Answer Man is noticeably set in Philadelphia. How did you make the decision to shoot in our city and what do you feel it brought to the film?
April 1, 2009 at 11:36 pm

The Answer Man The Answer Man has the trappings of a great movie: a Philadelphia set, an excellent cast and a topical conceit that pokes fun at those who think they know all.
April 1, 2009 at 11:20 pm

Carefully spaced family photographs line a wall of Leonard’s parent’s apartment. Tracing many generations of his traditional Italian family, they soon come to represent confinement.
March 29, 2009 at 6:28 pm

In the seminal case of Monsters vs. Aliens, an enormous woman battles googly-eyed antagonists from outer space.
March 25, 2009 at 11:26 pm

It’s hard to imagine Marlon Brando as anyone other than the notorious Godfather. But before he was Don Corleone, Brando turned in a riveting performance as Stanley in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. The film follows Blanche (Vivien Leigh), who arrives on her sister Stella’s doorstep claiming to be suffering a nervous breakdown.
March 25, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Act One Film Buff: Wow, I love your posters. Capra and Lynch, such an unusual mix.(1) Seducer: I almost put up my poster of The Third Man, signed by Orson Welles, but it’s much too valuable. Film Buff: [clearly impressed] Seducer: I rented a few films — Requiem for a Dream, The Bicycle Thief and A Woman Under the Influence— but I’m going to leave the final choice up to you.
March 25, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Step 1: Put up posters of films by under-appreciated directors. Purchase coffee table books on film noir, Italian neoRealism and cinéma vérité. Explain that your usual arts-haus indie theatre has been closed for inventory the recession, otherwise you would have met there.
March 25, 2009 at 11:10 pm

The premise of Duplicity, the painful new “comedy” from director Tony Gilroy, is that no one can trust anyone else.
March 19, 2009 at 2:16 am

Until I saw A Very Brady Sequel, I thought I was the only person who harbored a secret desire to break into an amateur song-and-dance routine aboard a flight to Hawaii.
March 19, 2009 at 2:09 am

Street: Are you involved in any real-life bromances? Jason Segel: Well, my best friend since I was 12 years old lived with me until six months ago.
March 19, 2009 at 2:06 am

Today’s mainstream media is overflowing with bromances. Take, for instance, Superbad’s glorification of male bonding and Brody Jenner’s eponymous reality show Bromance.
March 19, 2009 at 2:03 am

The history of Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s 1986 graphic-novel-turned-movie, is a long and complicated one.
March 1, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Street: What in particular drew you to Saviano's book and made you want to turn it into a screenplay? Maurizio Braucci: Before becoming a screenwriter I was a novelist.
March 1, 2009 at 6:00 pm

The Comedian: The Comedian is one of the only superheroes allowed to continue his work after the Keene Act, the government’s ban of masked crusaders, is passed.
February 26, 2009 at 1:18 am