Twenty-seven years ago, Raiders of the Lost Ark introduced the world to an unconventional archaeologist named Indiana Jones. With the DVD release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we pick up with the adventures of Indy (Harrison Ford), his former love Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and a young man named Mutt [...]
Creating lasting change is seldom an easy task. Just ask the more than 40,000 people who protested the Word Trade Organization’s 1999 summit in Seattle. The WTO is a coalition of international big businesses and other organizations that largely control the economic fate of the world. Their policies decide the political destinies of third world [...]
Anne Hathaway delivers an emotional and captivating performance as the “Rachel Getting Married’s” central figure, Kym, creating a sarcastic, self-centered and utterly real person on screen.
XXY is a rare gem of a film. It is sharply cut, meticulously polished, and completely one of a kind. The Argentine film tells the story of Alex, a 15-year-old with an unusual secret: she is both a boy and a girl. Amid the beautiful landscapes of coastal Uruguay, XXY weaves the lives of Alex’s [...]
For Sudanese child-soldier-turned-hip-hop-artist Emmanuel Jal, the wreckage of childhood trauma and the courage to persevere comes out on the title track of his album Warchild: “I’m a war child / I believe I’ve survived for a reason / To tell my story, to touch lives.”
Aaron Cohen travels around the world like a one-man army, fighting sweatshops, sex slavery, and human exploitation by liberating one person at a time.
The space fills with the warmth of carefully orchestrated noise pouring from Randy Randall’s grimy guitar layers and Dean Spunt’s thump-thump drums. The Ukrainian Culture Center is at a confluence of Los Angeles’s old-guard zine punks and the new school’s viral video generation of digipunks. But No Age is old school.
Sometimes, an actor’s career begins with an ending. “Yup, I was a tail-end of a dinosaur,” says Summer Bishil…
“Gonzo style is a series of riffs: partly truth, partly fiction—sometimes pure fiction—with serious reporting. I also think it represented being “gone”—being able to ingest a lot of drugs. Hunter was Gonzo in that sense too…”
Playing the role of the arrogant, underground fighter in the film Never Back Down, Gigandet channels the spirit of every prep-school pretty boy and trust-fund meathead you’ve ever met in this Karate Kid for the twenty-first century.
It was then that I found myself reclined on an oversized ball—
both the shape and color of a clown’s nose—while Eric Dane, the actor and
purported “hottie” of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy, uttered encouraging words as I
attempted to use a contraption that looked like it should be used only for drawing
and quartering, not developing super-rad pecs.
The ceiling fan chops at the yolky light, barely illuminating the singer’s face. He closes
his eyes and opens his mouth wide to belt a rough and soulful series of “la la la la’s” into the microphone.
He faces the back of a burnt-orange, vintage organ, its top cluttered with empty cigarette
packs, beer bottles, and a pair of aviator sunglasses, as the guitarist swings his own instrument to the side
and steps in front of the keyboard, massaging a swell of sixties surf sounds from the organ’s groaning belly.
From two corners of the room comes…
Somewhere in the twentieth century, the foot-stompin’, dobro pluckin’ songs of the sons
and daughters of slavery were appropriated and transformed—Led Zeppelin borrowed from Lead Belly,
Stevie Ray Vaughan from Buddy Guy—and at the turn of the millenium, blues became the soundtrack to
yuppie ennui: John Mayer waxed disingenuous and Starbucked the blues, Kenny Wayne Shepherd shredded
on Letterman, and the entire franchise of The House of Blues sprouted up like suburban mushrooms…
Topher Grace is all grown up.
Anton Corbijn discusses his debut film, Control about the life of Ian Curtis
Interviews with Vince Vaughn and the comics of Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show
Interviews with extreme skiers Andrew McLean and Ingrid Backstrom, stars of documentary Steep
Interview with director/artist Julian Schnabel, screenwriter Ron Harwood and the cast of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Vince Vaughn and Pal Giamatti discuss their film, “Fred Claus”
Tijuana is a schizophrenic city. It’s a place with a reputation for cartel violence, cheap face-lifts and drunken escapades by American college students. But underneath the myths of this sprawling border metropolis exists a burgeoning art and music scene that thrives on these contradictions. It’s where the Nortec Collective’s Bostich + Fussible cultivate their hybridized dance beats, which keep one foot on each side of the border and create ass-shaking jams infused with norteño, the sabor of Northern Mexican folk music.