‘Brave’: Pixar goes Disney in its first period piece
Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) has a problem with authority, especially her nagging mom, who just wants her to settle down with a...
| 6/23/2012
‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ one of Wes Anderson’s best movies
The characters in Wes Anderson's movies live in a fantasyland. Going back to his 1998 breakthrough Rushmore to 2009′s Fantastic Mr. Fox (a stop-motion animated film...
| 6/23/2012
'Madagascar 3': Going through the motions
The Penguins of Madagascar is one of the few TV shows that's better than the movies it's spun off from. That's probably why the third outing in this...
| 6/13/2012
'Prometheus' opens a new world of possibilities
They're claiming that Prometheus isn't technically a prequel to Alien, despite the same universe and director. But that's not quite the truth.
| 6/8/2012
Sigur Rós - Valtari (XL)
Verdict: The breathtaking elegance of their music has sorta worn off
| 6/6/2012
The Cabin in the Woods
If its geek pedigree isn’t enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn’t your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes
| 4/11/2012
'Buffy' and 'Lost' alum dick around with horror clichés
If its geek pedigree isn't enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn't your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes that...
| 4/13/2012
The Big Pink - Future This (4AD)
London electro-rockers are all about hippie aesthetics applied to new-wave influences
| 1/18/2012
The Little Willies: For the Good Times
The second album by Norah Jones' twangy side project formed in 2003 bears all the markings of a full-time artist playing around with part-time sounds.
| 1/18/2012
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The director of Let the Right One In does John le Carré’s spy classic right
| 1/4/2012
Ray Charles: Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles
Even though his most influential and celebrated work was recorded for Atlantic a decade earlier, Ray Charles' tenure with ABC Records in the 1960s and early '70s...
| 12/28/2011
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
The Rolling Stones' last perfect album arrived at a crossroads for the band. They were coming off a string of disappointing albums in the wake of Exile on Main St....
| 11/30/2011
Santasma
A roundup of box sets, the traditional no-brainer gift for music fans
| 11/24/2011
'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooney
Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or ...
| 11/20/2011
Sigur Rós - Inni (XL)
The celestial Icelandic quartet puts out its first live album
| 11/16/2011
Film review: The Ides of March
As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
| 10/10/2011
Another Earth
Another Earth
Directed by Mike Cahill
Movies can’t just blow your mind with zooming X-wings anymore. They need to blow it on a completely different level, with a totally mind-fucking story to go along with all the fancy CGI effects (cf., The Matri
| 8/17/2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
This prequel starts at the very beginning, when a lab chimp injected with a serum to cure Alzheimer’s gives birth to Caesar.
| 8/10/2011
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Justin Vernon's rumination on rural America is simply beautiful
| 6/22/2011
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
A successful real estate developer who lives for business hours and the big score. inherits a penguin from his late explorer father.
| 6/22/2011
Beginners
In the relationship drama Beginners, retired museum director Hal (Christopher Plummer) decides that his 75th year is the perfect opportunity to tell his son that he’s gay.
| 6/22/2011
Your Highness
This stoner comedy—about two medieval princes on a quest to rescue a beautiful princess, featuring Danny McBride, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel.
| 4/20/2011
Rio
The latest 3D CGI talking-animal movie is about a rare and pampered pet macaw named Blu from Minneapolis.
| 4/20/2011
Hop
Hop is the story of two twentysomething slackers with overbearing fathers. One is a jobless human; the other is the future Easter Bunny.
| 4/6/2011
Source Code
The time-space continuum offers an eon’s worth of problems for filmmakers. How do you get from Point A to Point B without losing grasp of your whole movie?
| 4/6/2011
Dr. Mashup
A sampled conversation with GT's Gregg Gillis
| 2/23/2011