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Review: The Pacifier
A Navy Seal turns in his helicopters and semi-automatics to navigate the perils of suburbia: diapers, diapers, diapers (let's just say excrement-related humor abounds) and darned kids who simply refuse to wear their tracking devices.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Editors' Picks
The Band, "Up on Cripple Creek"
Opening with Robbie Robertson's funky guitar lead, "Up on Cripple Creek" picks up right where Music from Big Pink's "The Weight" left off.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Guilty Pleasure
To this day, just humming "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" in my head makes me want to get up and prance around.
by EUGENIA SALVO
Film
Don't Go to Bars
It's 10 p.m. on St. Patrick's Day, and you still have no plans. Your "friends" all went downtown to bars, but you can't go because your fake was confiscated at a party a couple weeks ago, and you weren't willing to pay the bouncer $50 to get it back.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Disney Disses Harvard
"From small town Mathlete to big time Athlete," says the movie poster. Sounds promising, eh?
Ice Princess is only watchable if you bring a punching bag for irritating Joan Cusack moments.
by PERRIN BAILEY
Music
Finding the sexiness
"Christianity has become something I don't think Jesus would recognize, frankly."
Forty-one years old, eight albums deep into her career and just recently a mother, singer-songwriter Tori Amos -- a minister's daughter -- is not going to let her child grow up the way she did.
by JIM NEWELL
Film
I just want to thank my girlfriend...
It's about midnight, and I'm greeted with the abrasive jarring sound of a moving cart rolling over brick in the lobby of Sansom West.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Music
Behind the Music
When the Music's self-titled debut album hit stores, they stirred up a frenzy with critics. It was not the actual album that caused the ruckus but rather just the name of the band.
by KALI BACKER
Film
Rory has muscular dystrophy
It's easy to expect inspiration with Rory O'Shea Was Here. The film tells of Rory O 'Shea (James McAvoy), a rebellious teen with muscular dystrophy, and his friendship with Michael Connelly (Steven Robertson), a shy boy whose cerebral palsy gives him difficulty speaking.
by JENNIFER ZUCKERMAN
Film
Just a little deeper...
During the opening credits of this documentary on the controversial 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat, Supertramp's "Crime of the Century" plays, appropriately creating a foreboding tone for the rest of the film.
by JANICE HAHN
Film
Adrien Brody? a Gulf War Vet?
Chosen for Official Selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody, The Jacket has all the credentials to be a great film.
by RUBEN BROSBE
Music
Editor's Picks
Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005
On Sunday, February 20th, journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson took his own life.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Dave Serenades animals
Based on the children's book by Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie is the story of ten-year-old Opal (AnnaSophia Robb), who, still mystified by her mother's departure seven years earlier, struggles to find her way in a new town.
by MICHELLE DUBERT
Film
Back up in yo' Face
It's two o'clock in the afternoon at the Ritz-Carlton, and action star Tony Jaa, promoting his new movie, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, is still without lunch.
by JIM NEWELL
Film
Keanu Reeves still can't act
Constantine is intense. Intense like that shady guy standing outside Wawa on Spruce and 38th, intense like the lines for elliptical machines at Pottruck, intense like ... well, you get the point.
by ERIN BRANCHE
Film
Wait, Where's Jim Carrey?
Never has Jim Carrey's penchant for physical humor been demonstrated more clearly than in 1994's The Mask, when he played Stanley Ipkiss' bedeviled character with unparalleled aplomb.
by YONA SILVERMAN
Film
You a Ho
To set it straight, Born into Brothels will make you feel guilty if you're expecting dirty distraction.
by PERRIN BAILEY
Music
10 most overrated albums of all time
Overrated. This term is most often uttered in one of two situations. Situation one: A new band is getting an incredible amount of press for their debut album.
by KEVIN LO
Music
Editor's Picks
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
I have a theory for how Conor Oberst writes songs.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Kevin James, You Can't Dance
Hitch rises above a seemingly formulaic plot to ultimately become a funny and enjoyable film in the middle of Hollywood's dead season.
Will Smith plays Alex Hitchens, dating superhero, sworn to protect men from their own bad habits, poor taste and insecurity.
by MATT KURUC
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