What do you get when you take the two illest MCs from an Albany, Ga., high school and give them a contract?
Tracy Chapman's "Let It Rain" is hauntingly beautiful. Wrapping her sultry, smoky voice around poetic lyrics, Chapman gives birth to an album that is just as remarkable as her previous work. Although all of the tracks on "Let It Rain" are alike in soothing mellowness, each song tells a different story.
"Since 'Supernatural,' ain't nothin' changed," proclaims rapper Melkie Jean on an unexpected hip-hop interlude buried somewhere in the middle of "Shaman," Santana's follow-up to the most remarkable comeback album since 1982's "Christmas with the Chipmunks, Vol.
Since departing from his landmark band Phish in 2000, Trey Anastasio has embarked on a solo career that has been anything but predictable.
When the subject of exceptional gangster movies is brought up, a few films immediately pop into the mind: "Godfather I" and II, "Goodfellas," "Scarface" and now "Knockaround Guys." All right, so I'm lying.
Samuel L. Jackson gained a reputation as the coolest man on the planet after the release of "Pulp Fiction." Jules Winnfield quoted Ezekiel and made it sound like he was the prophet himself, before proceeding to promptly rearrange your face. Ever since then, however, Samuel L.
By There's already enough tension and real-life terror out there in society, so is this really an appropriate time for a tense, abrasive, unsettling thriller?
What can you possibly say about a movie that is so incredibly well done that you can think of no way to criticize any part of it?
Megan Holley gives a fresh perspective on the political issue of cloning and the importance of her film "Snowflake Crusade" to the issues addressed at this year's Virginia Film Festival. Cavalier Daily: What originally spurred the concept of this movie in your mind?
A cyber-woman is on the loose, and she's using random sex to collect sperm, leaving a trail of impotence in her wake.
"Deliverance" takes up the classic struggles of man vs. nature and man vs. man. In a film festival whose theme is "Wet," "Deliverance" (1972) is a fitting addition.
What is the 'frontera,' the border that separates the United States and Mexico? Is it simply a line drawn in the sand, a potential avenue for illegal immigrants or drugs?
Megan Holley gives a fresh perspective on the political issue of cloning and the importance of her film "Snowflake Crusade" to the issues addressed at this year's Virginia Film Festival. Cavalier Daily: What originally spurred the concept of this movie in your mind?
This year's Virginia Film Festival highly encourages everyone involved to get wet. Whether they're watching "Jaws" while floating in a pool or putting on beach gear and heading to a dance party, participants will leave the Festival soaked with new insight into film, from classics to premieres and everything in between. The festival is different from the approximately 800 other film festivals around the world in that it always has a specific theme.
Experimental film isn't for everyone. Most requires tremendous patience and an open mind, asking you to interact mentally instead of just sitting back to enjoy passively.
I'm sure most of you have heard of "The African Queen." Some of you probably even know the premise of the film and are aware that it stars Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.
Ever since "Tuvalu" hit public screens, its critics have tried to peg it down as a fairy tale, a fable, a silent film, a miming film, a science fiction and a dark comedy, among other labels.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, director of "Teknolust" and "Borderline Fractures," a documentary on Guillermo Gomez-Peña, is one of this year's Forum for Contemporary Thought Visiting Artists.
In a journey in search of the energy which inspires art and perfuses through our natural world, "Rivers and Tides" documents the work of revolutionary Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy.
Ralph McKay's program of short films, "Throwing Water into the Sea," is nothing short of astounding.
