Hopefully everyone's grown tired of the constant drama surrounding the hip-hop community. The Ja Rule and 50 Cent beef was just straight lame, no matter how talented you find either one.
"Darkness Falls," Where shall I begin? Okay, I don't want to sound, I don't know, picky, but is it too much to ask that a horror flick have decent special effects?
Marginal pop culture figures don't typically have movies made about their lives. Andy Kaufman and Bob Crane are two notable exceptions, but at best most C-list celebrities must remain content with their own "E!
"The Hours," recent recipient of the Golden Globe for Best Picture, begins with an ending. The opening scenes of this brilliant film chronicle the last few moments of Virginia Woolf's life, as she leaves her husband and home, fills her coat pockets with stones, and walks into a river to end a life plagued by mental illness. After this rather morbid beginning, the movie goes on to recount one day in each of three different women's lives: Virginia Woolf in the 1920s, Laura Brown in the 1950s, and Clarissa Vaughn in 2001. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is a talented but tortured author, constantly haunted by the voices that constitute one of the symptoms of her ailing mind.
They are Rock and Roll Stars, and they probably went to your high school: Virginia Coalition is a five-piece band from Alexandria that seems to be pathologically addicted to incessantly touring the East Coast.
An independent rock band known for creating soft, intricate pop tunes, The Sea and Cake has returned as delicate and complex as ever.
Remember that one perfect game you had, where everything went right? That one game where you could do no wrong?
Live in the States long enough, stand in enough movie theater lines, buy into enough of the Hollywood and People magazine hype, and there are some things that you just come to expect.
Two unanticipated interruptions put major dents in the shape of Wladyslaw Szpilman's life. In Warsaw, 1939, the internationally renowned pianist's performance of Chopin's "Nocturne in D Minor" on Polish state radio was interrupted by a bomb dumped by a Nazi plane.
I am, as a movie critic and as a consumer of Hollywood art, not exactly sure how to deal with my emotions surrounding "About Schmidt." Is it brilliantly performed?
Paul (Jason Lee) is going to be married in a week to the preppy Karen (Selma Blair). Karen also happens (conveniently) to be the daughter of Paul's boss, Ken (James Brolin). Everything seems made for the movies.
"Kangaroo Jack," starring Jerry O'Connell, falls under the unfortunate category of films that have absolutely no audience.
Imagine a place where hip-hop heads can gather and do nothing but chill and see the hottest hip-hop films out.
Sometimes we look back to look forward. When we do, we look back through a tinted lens. This spirit of guarded nostalgia, caught between joyful reminiscence and bitter memory, frames Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness," at Live Arts now through Feb.
For those of you who packed away your incense and peppermints after Alderman Library's "The Psychedelic '60s" exhibit closed its doors in 1998, there's good news.
Maid-turned-politican's-wife Jennifer Lopez walks on Ralph Fiennes' arm through an abnormally tranquil Central Park.
All right, I'll start by coming clean. I have never listened to Björk before. All I know about her is she appeared on SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy once and seems to like wearing poultry.
Peter Jackson and company have done it again. God bless the heart of whatever normally heartless New Line executive that made the brilliant decision to green-light the production of all three
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