Arts & Entertainment

The xx This indie-pop outfit from across the pond exploded onto the scene in 2009 with their self-titled debut album.
January 21, 2010 at 2:04 am

Street had the opportunity to catch up with Oscar-nominated teenager Saoirse Ronan about her new film The Lovely Bones , Miley Cyrus, and why she picks such sad roles.
January 20, 2010 at 6:59 pm

Dear Britney and Christina, True fact: I have now spent 173 hours learning the choreography to the “(You Drive Me) Crazy” video (speaking of which, Brit, are you really friends with Sabrina the Teenage Witch?). And every night after practicing the part with the chair — which really hurts my ass, by the way — I fall asleep listening to “Reflection.” Mulan is the best!
December 10, 2009 at 1:45 am

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I wasn’t always a seventh grader. The truth is, I used to not even be in middle school.
December 10, 2009 at 1:40 am

Awesomest Concert: The No Strings Attached Tour is showing a lot of promise as a top-rating concert series.
December 10, 2009 at 1:36 am

Oh my god, this movie is so awesome! Loves it! That guy Preston is, like, tres sexy! And the way he professes his love for the popular girl Amanda at the end?
December 9, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Usually movies based on books are boring, sad or both (The Horse Whisperer, anyone?), but Great Expectations is so much different.
December 9, 2009 at 11:12 pm

OMG², Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are like the luckiest girls ever! They get to travel the world, hang out with famous grown-ups and make their own movies.
December 9, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Math/Science: Trip Hop A number of us at Penn agree: math and science can be scary.
December 3, 2009 at 1:36 am

Musicals are the worst. Nothing makes me want to dish out wedgies like a Broadway showstopper. Road trips are great, though — so great that they can make things like Roy Rogers and show tunes digestible. Every summer, my family drives 10 hours to visit my grandparents in Maine.
December 3, 2009 at 1:34 am

Vampire Weekend, “Cousins” Hear the first several iterations of “hey hey” in the beginning of “Cousins,” the new track from Vampire Weekend's forthcoming Contra, and you may be reminded of something very familiar: the band’s last album.
December 3, 2009 at 1:32 am

At first glance, Lady Gaga’s most recent release, The Fame Monster, looks like a typical moneymaking B-sides release attached at the hip to her debut hit-machine, The Fame. But don’t be fooled.
December 3, 2009 at 1:27 am

Ever since Cain killed Abel, brothers have been at each other’s throats in a fierce competition for success, respect and love.
December 3, 2009 at 12:29 am

The late '90s were saturated with teen comedies; almost formulaically, most of these films followed a predictable arc, incorporating high school cliques, romance, rebellion and of course… prom.
December 2, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Based on Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Italian film Stanno Tutti Bene, Kirk Jones’s Everybody’s Fine presents a traditional holiday story told from a slightly different perspective — that of the middle-aged parent. In this family dramedy, Frank (Robert De Niro) is a newly widowed father who decides to surprise each of his children (Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell) with a visit after they cancel their planned trips home for a family weekend.
December 2, 2009 at 11:37 pm

Street: Do you have a director’s playlist that you listen to for each movie that you do? Jason Reitman: Usually I have one song that gets me in the mood to write each film and strangely enough in all three of my movies that song has never [shown up]. For Thank You for Smoking, it was the song, “I’m a Man” by Steve Winwood.
December 2, 2009 at 11:33 pm

A remake of an obscure, NC-17 cop drama, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Werner Herzog, sounds more like the result of a cinephile’s game of mad-libs than it does an actual movie.
November 24, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Considering the tremendous success of the last silver-screen adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel, No Country for Old Men, it’s no wonder studio giants The Weinstein Company seized the distribution rights for a movie version of the author’s latest Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Road. The eponymous film, the big-budget debut of Aussie director John Hillcoat, centers on an ailing but tenacious middle-aged man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son, some years after an unspecified cataclysm that has left the earth bleak and barren, extinguishing almost all human life in a maelstrom of earthquakes and flames.
November 23, 2009 at 8:52 pm

Don’t believe what the trailer says about “the fight of a few.” Red Cliff features some of the largest, most spectacular battles you’ve seen in the cinema for a while.
November 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm

There are a number of animated films that adults can love. Pixar’s impressive catalogue is full of hilarity and thoughtfulness that children cannot fully appreciate, and taking a child to see Wall-E or Up could hardly be considered a chore.
November 23, 2009 at 8:45 pm