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Time-rusted stone

There is absolutely no room in 2006 for Sharon Stone's 48-year-old breasts. Since Basic Instinct 2 sports scarcely any other images -- excepting car crashes and endlessly-recurring exteriors of large phallic buildings which can all be read as metaphors for Sharon Stone's breasts -- I am going to venture that there is no room in 2006 for Basic Instinct 2. A sad attempt to revive the '80s/'90s sex thriller genre, Basic Instinct 2 suffers from severe temporal confusion.

by MAGGIE HENNEFELD

Putting the Woo Back into Wu-tang

Real thugs never die. Unfortunately, they also have trouble staying creative. Ghostface Killah's newest album, Fishscale, is yet another record to emerge from Wu-Tang's prolific machinery.

by GABRIEL CRANE

MTV BMOC

Dov Kogen began singing and writing songs at the ripe age of three, when he took the tune of Jewish hymn "Adon Olam" and set it to the one-word lyric "guitar." "I didn't actually play guitar back then," the psychology major and music minor says, "so I sort of strummed my aunt's 30-year-old classical guitar," which he would actually learn to play in the fourth grade.

by LISA TAUBER

Philadelphia Film Festival

Evil Premieres April 3 at Ritz Five, 5 p.m. The Greeks may have given us philosophy and democracy, but come on, that was so BC.

by 34TH STREET

O welcome back, karen O

With the wild success of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs's debut album Fever to Tell, the musical trio from New York set a remarkably high standard for itself.

by MANYA SCHEPS

Inside man, not inside me...

In a era of big budget remakes and sequels, (can you say Rocky 6?) Spike Lee's new joint, Inside Man, is a welcome puff of fresh air.

by DYLAN MCGARRY

Teen films

On spring break, somebody suckered me into sharing a bed with a bronchitis-ridden travel partner and, as you might guess, I started feeling the symptoms a few days into the trip.

by JON LEVIN

Watch me watch

Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! pioneers the documentary "concert film" as a democratic and participatory medium.

by MAGGIE HENNEFELD

Indie rock that you can happily gyrate to

It is not often that a band produces something truly unique. Almost every successful indie group today somehow derives its sound from Morrissey or Bowie or even Byrne.

by ALEXANDRA CHAN

The Grateful Dead meets Picasso

Originally J. Leto and his brother's side project, 30 Seconds to Mars has recently gained a reputation in its own right.

by CLAIRE STAPLETON

Ben Affleck Down in Flames

Ah, the heyday. Shakespeare in Love had just come out, and every girl in my fifth grade class was obsessed with marine biology.

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A Penn band you actually want to hear

Penn's very own the Pale Nimbus knows something is missing from this university's campus. And so do their fans.

by AMANDA JASSO

Trouble in Taradise

For the alpha male, nothing is more appealing than a perpetually inebriated blonde who's drunker than a Mississippi sheriff and looser than a Playboy Bunny.

by GREG MORAN

She's the man

Street sits down for a round table interview with She's The Man stars Amanda Bynes, Robert Hoffman, Laura Ramsey and Channing Tatum. Any hookups on the set?

by STEPHEN MORSE

Turn the stereo up

Since their 1991 debut, Stereolab has functioned as one of the most influential -- if under the radar -- bands of the pseudo-pop electronica circuit.

by GABRIEL CRANE

It's Smokin' Hot

Jason Reitman's Thank You for Smoking depicts the plight of Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a propaganda-spouting cigarette industry mogul whose dubious business ethics haunt his tender relationship with his 12-year-old son.

by MAGGIE HENNEFELD

The hills are alive

Did you know that nuclear weapons are bad? No, really -- not only do they kill innocent people, but they also mutate people who then go on to kill other innocent people.

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Fear of Walking Fear of Walking Fear of Walking

Our country is obsessed with the mafia. Something about organized crime appeals to us despite a disapproval of the lives they lead.

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Night Shift blues

If you loved Night Watch two years ago, you're in for a treat with Night Watch 2. This Russian sci-fi/thriller/fantasy/action flick will surely knock your socks off... if you don't pass out from all the gory blood-stained battles first.

by STEPHEN MORSE

Philly Rockers Fight for Visibility

"The last time we were out on tour was two or three years ago. We've actually just been recording this album, and watching the children.

by GABRIEL CRANE

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