Film & TV

I used to think only pretentious deviants with spectacles lowered halfway down their noses liked foreign films.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

5. From Hell (Adapted from From Hell by Alan Moore) A 2001 Jack the Ripper flick starring Johnny Depp, From Hell pretty much sandbagged in the box office.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

The video entitled "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" catapulted its creator, crazed Britney fan Chris Crocker, out of the dark corners of Internet obscurity and into the spotlight.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Poignant, pertinent and made with noble intentions, Stop-Loss aims at greatness only to slide into mediocrity.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

If the phrase "student film" makes you think of last night's exploits splashed across YouPorn.com, you haven't embraced the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF). A contest for Philadelphia-area university students, the festival gives awards in five different categories.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

When one thinks of the word propaganda, the image of an American flag raised above soldiers dressed in camouflage comes to mind.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Anyone who asks you, "Who's your favorite director?" deserves to be a Cinema Studies major. Punch the pretentious asshole in the face, but do please answer him.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) seems to be making it his business to play the 30-something loser who snags the ultra hot, and of course terribly sweet, girl.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

If you like watching actors/models kick and punch their way through a nonexistent plot, this film is for you.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Currently studying abroad in Australia, I live a block from the beach, enjoy daily 80-degree weather and meet beautiful girls with accents.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

The tides of globalization swept across Africa long before Kofi Annan joined the UN or Akon "smacked that". Wed to Asian, European and American influences, many of the continent's cultural practices are syncretic responses to outside technologies, politics and aesthetics.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is a movie that wants to be many things. It strives to be a movie about loving movies.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

Michael Haneke's Funny Games is Pirandello on steroids. Its portrayal of authorial caprice and wantonness all in the name of "entertainment" and "plausibility" is brutal, draining and eminently revealing.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

You're watching a movie with a couple of friends and that uncomfortable sex scene comes on screen. The actors aren't really having sex though, so it's okay to sneak a peek.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

"You mean actual flames?" "Yes." "Well, we can't set Mick Jagger on fire." It would be redundant.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

So this Egyptian police band walks into a remote Israeli town. After strong showings at every major film festival over the past six months, The Band's Visit finally opens in Philadelphia on Friday.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

To be cool. To be suave. To be Bogart. In Play It Again Sam, we witness one man's aspiration to be all of the above. Wildly imaginative and uncannily original, this neurotic comedy is arguably the best of Woody Allen's career.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Garden State is not New Jersey - Zach Braff never even got caught in traffic on the Parkway. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, now studied assiduously at Penn alongside Citizen Kane, seems closer, at least stereotypically.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Charlie Bartlett has been kicked out of every private high school he has ever attended. The last time he was expelled for running a fake ID laminating press out of his dorm room.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

Street: What makes Penelope a fresh take on a fairy tale? Christina Ricci: I think the writer uses that traditional structure to then inject this very powerful surprise, and to really make a statement in an impactful way that isn't necessarily patronizing. Street: How do you think this movie will impact young individuals? CR: I'm hoping that young people really like the movie.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am