In an attempt to appeal to both Eastern and Western audiences, films like Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior butcher Asian mythology and culture in the process.,"Oh...
for this particular movie?Answer: I met Shauna Cross, the writer of the source novel, Derby Girl, and my partner Nancy and I optioned her book to turn...
The band had years of extensive touring in the shadows of larger acts and the drawn-out, experimental jams the group of former Berklee students brought...
For Miles Brandman, seeing his name on screen under the title of "director" has been a long time coming. Despite saying that he is "a little sleepy," he...
In Tim Burton's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, it's apparent that Burton enjoys giving Johnny Depp sharp objects to play with. Todd, played...
After a lackluster tree lighting ceremony in on a Boston Common, the city needs something more-the epitome of a perfect holiday production: Irving Berlin's...
The line is taken from the song "Tell Me," one of ten luscious tracks off Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' 100 Days 100 Nights, an album that announces...
The band's sophomore record, Favourite Worst Nightmare, picks up where the lads left off with 2006's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.,Google...
When it comes to music biopics, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. In Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, director Jake Kasdan targets the trite formula...
After a series of ingenious, quirky and, most recently, inconsequential (Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers) comedies, the more sanguinary sect of the...
Director Chris Brindley said it was a coincidence that his Musical Theater Society production of iGodspell/i, which is based on a book in the Bible, run...
The East Gallery of the ICA seems in conflict with itself, its pristine white walls juxtaposed with ones that contain drawings of garbage and graffiti....
Following in the footsteps of Radiohead and their Internet-available album In Rainbows, Nine Inch Nails has released its seventh studio album entitled...
If you haven't already heard about Tulia, Texas, get ready. You will.As a town of 5,000, Tulia is barely a blip in the hazy heat that hangs on the North...
I stepped into the theater with doubts. Not only is iCoraline/i a children's book adaptation, which is often a mediocre genre at best (think iThe Dark...
When Francis Ford Coppola famously said in 1979 that his film Apocalypse Now "is not about Vietnam-it is Vietnam," it revealed a hopeless lack of perspective...
For those expecting another Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead, be forewarned: Run Fatboy Run doesn't parody the romantic comedy genre quite as adeptly as its...
Independent bands are the heart of any town's music scene. Boston is no exception. The local scene is the best it's been in years, with bands embodying...
We don't need to hear him say it to know what is on his mind.Should a murderous mob boss as calculating and corrupt as Tony (James Gandolfini) be allowed...
Popularized by corny big-screen script successes such as Nacho Libre and The School of Rock, White returns to his dark comedic roots in his directorial...
