The Best of the Decade

January 7, 2010 by

"Mulholland Drive" - Dir. David Lynch (2001) A perfect movie with my favorite sequence ever (the scene outside the diner with the homeless person) Mullholland Drive has haunted my dreams for years. I ...
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Lil Wayne Denied Rebirth *

January 7, 2010 by

PREFACE: Lil Wayne's newest record, Rebirth, was accidentally shipped to some 500 Amazon customers who had preordered it. I was lucky enough to track down one of the physical copies. It appears that t...
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Mickey Avalon Really Is Mr. Right

November 12, 2009 by

When Mickey Avalon took the stage Sunday at Velvet Jones co-eds started making out, tattooed women began to dance on their beau's shoulders and spastic groupies began to writhe and grind up against an...
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Hacky “Saw” Flicks Mature ***

October 29, 2009 by

"Saw" was never designed to become a franchise. The first film made a point of killing off all its main characters, save for one who was already dying of an inoperable brain tumor. But when a movie gr...
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Foxy Sounds at the Hub

October 22, 2009 by

The line formed early for The Sounds' Monday-night gig at the Hub, which was a fortunate thing, because the real show was over by the time the headliners even took the stage.
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OFF THE BEATEN PATH: [REC]

October 22, 2009 by

1968's "Rosemary's Baby" featured a shot of a woman sitting in a bedroom on the phone with her face blocked by the edge of the doorway. Legend has it that at the first screening, nearly the entire aud...
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Will The Real John Leguizamo Please Stand Up?

October 15, 2009 by

John Leguizamo is a complicated man, a man full of contradictions and seemingly mutually exclusive ideas. He has turned this premise into a long career as a character actor and performance artist.
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“Zombieland” Brings Vibrancy to the Undead ***

October 8, 2009 by

"Zombieland" features decapitations, mutilations, lacerations, disembowelments, exploding heads, dead children and about 400 on-screen deaths. It is also laugh-out-loud funny.
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Filmic Future Looks Bleak **

October 1, 2009 by

Remember that one movie where everyone is plugged into machines that created a large-scale simulacra of the world until a single man rises up and frees all human consciousness? Or how about the one wh...
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“Meatballs” Provides Large Serving of Fun ****1/2

September 24, 2009 by

In the fall of 2002, MTV premiered "Clone High," a deliriously funny spoof of teen dramas and world history. Less than 4 months later the show was canceled due to the fatal combination of mediocre rat...
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Off The Beaten Path: “Brain Damage”

September 24, 2009 by

This year, Artsweek will be trying out some new columns and features as a way to better serve you, the student. This column is the first in a series designed to alert students to films that they might...
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Let’s All Go To The Movies: Fall 2009

September 17, 2009 by

The summer of 2009 was Hollywood's most profitable ever, with studios raking in over $4.3 billion. Of course, most of the movies sucked. From the obnoxious "Wolverine" to the soporific "Transformers: ...
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“T4” Is Mechanical As They Come *

May 28, 2009 by

When it came out back in 1984, "The Terminator" was a wild ride full of action and adventure with killer science fiction hook.. It was so good that few people noticed that the sequel, subtitled "Judgm...
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“Brothers Bloom:” Con-ning Linguists ****

May 28, 2009 by

In a summer full of dumber-than-dumb spectacles, and subtext-free action-porn, "The Brothers Bloom" is a breath of fresh air.
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Extravaganza 2009

May 21, 2009 by

Hot off the heels of the one-two punch of its 2008 EP, The Bake Sale, and its 2009 mix-tape, Gone Fishing, The Cool Kids played a mid-afternoon set at this weekend's Extravaganza.
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