Film & TV

The childhood bedtime story of the Ugly Duckling becomes a colorful modern fairytale in the film Penelope.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

What audience is the Charlie Bartlett aimed at? When I first pitched to do the film, I said it's a movie for teenagers for anyone who has a teenager and anyone who ever was a teenager.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

If the last time you heard about the Balkans was when you wore your retainer in public, you should know that things have changed a bit.
February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

We promise they're worth leaving the comfort of your house/boyfriend's arms/cocoon at Bucks. Free screening of Harlan County USA Feb.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

At the risk of losing respect and friendship, I would like to turn your attention to a movie that I thoroughly enjoyed watching: Spice World, or as some call it, "that stupid Spice Girls marketing device." Those negative Nancies do have a point.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

20th Century Fox's latest action flick Jumper might possibly be the most ill-conceived movie I have seen in some time.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

If you're reading this, you probably already know that Step Up 2 the Streets is a really bad movie. You know this because everyone knows this; it's like knowing that Barack Obama is running for president or that right now, wherever she may be, Amy Winehouse is smashed (or wishes she were). This is Step Up 2 the Streets.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

Director Ari Sandel wants you to cry. Whether you cry from laughing so hard that your abs feel like they've just been through Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo Boot Camp, or you're crying from the raw emotive power of each of the comedians' stories, there's no question that you'll find a little glisten on your cheeks after watching this film. Vince Vaughn's comedy tour took four amateur comedians and three professional ones on the road for a month in 2005 across the U.S.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

Imagine that you're a film editor and a German director walks into your office and pitches this idea: "We're going to go into the middle of the Amazon, find a giant mountain straddling two rivers, blow it up and move a large boat across." Seriously. In Werner Herzog's 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo, one can watch roughly 1000 Amazon tribesmen move an actual steamboat over a mountain, a feat accomplished with no special effects.
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

As Americans, we fancy ourselves as having monopolized postmodernist existential angst. But Theo Angelopoulos's 1988 masterpiece Landscape in the Mist plaintively reminds us that we are not alone in our search for meaning in a bleak universe.
February 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

I'll be honest: even though we put Juno on our Best Movies of 2007 list, I don't think it deserves half of the hype it's garnered.
February 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey of Mysterious Skin: Neil, a soulless teenage hustler + Brian, an introverted and coddled 18-year-old + alien abductions + repressed dark memories = a raw, graphic and seriously depressing and disturbing film with intense performances by its lead actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick) and Brady Corbet (Thirteen). Dawn Wiener of Welcome to the Dollhouse: Dawn, an unattractive, awkward and certified 7th grade loser + an adorable little sister + absent-minded parents + unrequited love for a cool guitar player + the "Special People Club" = a quotable, coming of age, dark comedy that makes you cower at the thought of middle school. Duncan Mudge of The Mudge Boy: Duncan, a quiet, sheltered farm boy + his unusual desire to mimic his dead mother + an unlikely friendship with a tough, neighborhood boy + a question of sexuality = a poignant film featuring a stunning performance by Emile Hirsch in the title role.
February 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

Sometimes we wonder what our high school friends have been doing with their lives. Recently, I checked up on two pals of mine, Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, who were notorious comedians within our Atlantan community.
February 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

Street: How did you get involved with this film? Anamaria Marinca: I was already living in London, and Christian called me.
February 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

Street: Can you tell us a little about vagina dentata and how it originated? Persephone Braham: The vagina dentata has many manifestations, from the classical Greek figure Scylla (a beautiful woman from the waist up, with the slavering jaws of three dogs for genitals) to Eve and Mother Nature --- with her grottoes, caves, quicksand bogs and amphibious serpents.
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

How many movies do you know that open with a title warning that none of the footage you are about to see is actual documentary footage?
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

This Sunday marked the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest event of the year for American independent film.
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

Recently, Street had the pleasure to interview the writer/director of Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and producer, Joyce Pierpoline, who graduated from Penn.
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

I'm all about vagina empowerment. In my vocabulary, the word "feminist" is neither dirty nor derogatory.
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

5. Fight Club Tyler Durden: "Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just.
January 31, 2008 at 12:00 am