The Counterfeiters, this year's Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is a true story set in 1946 that follows a brooding, nameless gambler...
In Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics, the newest show to hit Emerson Stage, a massive, almost biblical flood engulfs all of Los Angeles. In the midst of this...
Do not go see Funny Games. Do not go anywhere near Funny Games. This malicious and fetishistic shot-for-shot remake from writer/director Michael Haneke...
Ambulance LTD's transformative sound is hard to explain. Some of their tracks hinge on the ambient sound of dream pop, while others pulse and grind through...
Gus Van Sant-the director of such hazy, slow-paced films as Gerry, Last Days and the Palme d'Or winning Elephant-must be the most patient director in contemporary...
andRomance and Cigarettes,Across the UniverseCommodification is the name of the game in Julie Taymor's square and soggy cinematic adaptation of the Beatles'...
The line between what is modern and what is ancient blurs, and thus, humor is injected into scenes that would otherwise be stiff and lifeless.,Director...
Everyone loves to look at penises. Why this is so is a fair question, but it remains a fact that the penis has a certain allure to it-and there are certainly...
"What really inspires me is [Vonnegut's] writing style and his narratives in general," said lead singer and guitarist Mike Epstein in a phone interview...
Jason Knight stands in front of 10 underclassmen in a studio on the third floor of the Colonial Theatre on a Sunday evening in mid-February. The attentive...
Will Ferrell is a funny guy. So is Will Arnett, his frequent co-star. But their latest collaboration, Semi-Pro, is comical only because it makes the cast...
Terri Ciccone:Love"Best Friend," Queen For a straightforward and G-rated love song to cuddle to, no one says it better than Freddy Mercury: "You're the...
Every Saturday morning, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, living rooms were occupied by a stuttering pig, a maniac Martian named Marvin, a Tasmanian...
Last season, the mental homework necessary to understand each episode frustrated fans.,Polar bears in the past (well, not anymore), ABC's mysterious island-based...
Body-bending leaps, twists and turns moved in unison to an equally fluid variety of music during the dry rehearsal for Emerson's Experimental Dance. In...
Indecision on Valentine's Day is not a new phenomenon. The pressure to come up with the perfect Valentine's Day date is sometimes too much for the boyfriend...
John F. Kennedy was a doughnut. Granted, not really but he did have the German populace in a state of confusion when he gave a speech at the Berlin Wall...
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief, Federico Fellini's La Strada, Luis Buntilde;uel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,...
Best PictureNominees:-Atonement-Juno-Michael Clayton-No Country for Old Men-There Will Be BloodWill Win:No Country for Old MenShould Win: No Country for...
With a sound reminiscent of Phish, Stevie Wonder and Tim McGraw, Big Leg Emma aspires to be the next great jam band, mashing together genres in order to...
