Arts & Entertainment

Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.
March 18, 2010 at 2:17 am

Not to sound like your mom or anything, but summer is fast approaching. And, if you’re anything like us, you’ve decided to forgo the OCR path in hopes of something better.
March 18, 2010 at 2:11 am

When I was in ninth grade, one of my friends told me that she heard Billy Corgan was an asshole. I responded angrily and cued up “Rocket” on my clunky iPod.
March 18, 2010 at 2:09 am

It’s about time we all started believing in ghosts. In the posthumous release of Valleys of Neptune, the phantom of Jimi Hendrix has entered the airwaves to show that forty years on, he still deserves one of the highest thrones in the pantheon of rock deities.
March 18, 2010 at 2:06 am

We all know the drill — if you can’t make the monthly payments on your car, the bank takes your car back.
March 18, 2010 at 1:58 am

In Bong Joon-ho’s satirical masterpiece The Host, a giant monster wrecks havoc on a Korean city.
March 18, 2010 at 1:47 am

Last year, many film lovers were outraged that the Swedish vampire masterpiece Let the Right One In didn’t score an Academy Award nomination for “Best Foreign Language Film.” However, Oscar voters were not to blame.
March 18, 2010 at 1:44 am

Some people find it bizarre that a film following three middle-aged divorcees as they plot revenge on their ex-husbands ranks among my favorites.
March 18, 2010 at 1:42 am

For many, The Runaways will present itself as the perfect opportunity to ogle Dakota Fanning as the sexed-up version of her former child star self.
March 18, 2010 at 1:18 am

MUSIC Tonight : Wild Beasts, Johnny Brenda’s, $10, 21+ Looking to get ahead of the curve on the next Pitchfork megastars?
February 25, 2010 at 1:29 am

It’s easy to forget that there is a whole musical world out there full of artists who are taking their own traditional styles and fashioning them into contemporary masterpieces that challenge our preconceptions of what music is, has been and will be.
February 25, 2010 at 1:28 am

It is all too easy to buy into the one-dimensional cult of genius that surrounds the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and is propagated by art historians, intellectuals and sometimes, the artist himself.
February 25, 2010 at 1:25 am

Belgian indie rock vet Dieter Sermeus has seen it all, from the heyday of punk to the early 90s lo-fi haze.
February 25, 2010 at 1:24 am

A collaboration between DJ Green Lantern, the former DJ for Eminem’s Shady Records, and Styles P of The LOX, The Green Ghost Project sounds exactly like what it is: a bunch of talented guys coming together to make hip-hop they themselves would actually listen to.
February 25, 2010 at 1:21 am

Damon Albarn’s non-Blur work has always been notable for its effortlessly vibrant way of flirting with a diverse range of genres and styles.
February 25, 2010 at 1:20 am

K-Os has always been one of those artists on the brink of success. Maybe it’s his Canadian heritage that’s holding him back; his smooth hip-hop has swiftly flown under the musical radar for nearly all of his 17-year career.
February 25, 2010 at 1:15 am

For a film based on the well-known attempt by a set of climbers to scale the north face of the Eiger in 1936, the German-made thriller North Face perfects the art of the cliffhanger (literally) — even for an audience aware of the ultimate historical outcome. From the moment the main characters Toni Kurz (Benno Furmann) and Andi Hintertoisser (Florian Lukas) — two Nazi soldiers who prefer pitons over pistols — approach the deathly Eiger, director Philipp Stolzl crafts the story of the climber’s ascent with visual and emotional precision. With the group of climbers clinging to a mass of rock by the most inconsequential of steel and rope, dodging avalanches and taking a frostbitten beating from the fickle weather, Stolzl brings the audience to the mountain, piecing together the infamous story in the process. This becomes most evident in the scenes off the mountain; where the storyline strays from original accounts of the expedition, it struggles the most.
February 25, 2010 at 1:11 am

Each year as Oscar nominations are announced, worthy candidates are inevitably left off the nominations shortlist.
February 25, 2010 at 1:03 am

The name Peter Jackson is synonymous with fantasy, thanks to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but this has not always been the case.
February 25, 2010 at 1:01 am

Street chatted with The Art of the Steal director Don Argott and producer Sheena M. Joyce.
February 25, 2010 at 12:56 am