Artsweek
One of the best things about the festival is that is often screens work by local filmmakers and UCSB students and alumni. One such film that ran at this year's festival is "Clams With Green Onions," a...
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The first thing that will strike you about listening to The Crying Light, the latest release from Antony and the Johnsons, is the almost ridiculously heartbreaking beauty of the whole affair. Antony H...
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The Allmusic Guide compares him to Marvin Gaye; the UK music zine Drowned in Sound calls it a "fine appendix to the ... story so far;" even Pitchfork gives it a lofty 7.9 out of 10. This might just be...
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This year, Artsweek staff, like the rest of the U.S., and indeed, most of the world (besides China, perhaps), was not immune to the superpowers of Batman.
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Independent and big-time producers alike have been pouring money into creating shows and films that are aired exclusively online. Some of these Web series have caught the attention of network televis...
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I felt a sense of inevitable déjà vu as I took in Sam Mendes' "Revolutionary Road." The film stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as a young married couple attempting to rebuild their br...
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David Fincher and Brad Pitt have notably collaborated before, bringing Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club to the big screen, creating an icon of modern cinema in the process. It would then stand to reason t...
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Adam Sandler seems an unlikely lead actor for a children's film, particularly one imbued with elements of magical realism and fairy tale-like fantasy. His crude humor, infantile antics and characteris...
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Hollywood films about heavy-duty social issues tend to fall into one of two categories: condescending melodramas that appeal to sentimental pre-teen girls ("Crash" and "Blood Diamond") and truly gut-w...
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When it comes to addressing tragedy and hot-button social issues, director Gus Van Sant has plenty of experience - his previous films have addressed topics of school shootings, suicide and inner-city ...
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Twilight is the first of four best-selling young adult novels written by Stephanie Meyer, following the budding romance between the teenaged protagonist, Bella, and her 107-year-old vampire lover, Edw...
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Wherever T-Pain is, he needs to be dragged out in front of the public and put into the stockade for crimes committed against music. He has directly contributed to this increasingly distressing vocorde...
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The Killers can do no wrong and with its new album, Day & Age. The Las Vegas-based band's third record will make new fans, keep old fans and have everybody coming back for more.
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That voice... Arkansas' Adam Faucett comes straight from the netherworld releasing his second album, Show Me Magic, Show Me Out, that somehow manages to upstage his brilliant debut. Here, Faucett agai...
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After only a few minutes at the Biko Co-op Garage Performance Space on Sueno Road, one gets the feeling that most weekend nights at the garage turn into wild, decadent dance parties - at least when th...
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
