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Hollywood Postulate: Fuse the creative genius of two successful filmmakers and the resulting product's appeal, intrigue, and bankability will double (no matter how incompatible they actually are).
A month ago, The Wall Street Journal granted Duke the dubious attention of a profile on the vast lifestyle disparities among students of varying socioeconomic backgrounds.
Recess is about arts and entertainment. It's more than a crafty collection of zingers or a lampoon for the crazy and contemporary. It's about commentary, criticism and cultural literacy.
The Fast and the Furious is about cars. Fast cars. Big cars. Cars that go "vroooommm, vroooommm.
"Finally, a video-game-based movie that is better than Street Fighter or Super Mario Bros."--David Manning. That's the kind of back-handed compliment that Tomb Raider deserves.
This is supposed to be the summer in which hard rock makes a comeback. Since the mid-'90s, the genre's popularity has diminished as teenage pop acts climbed the charts.
On The Invisible Band, Travis does to British Rock what Starbucks did to coffee.
If Hollywood were an island, then John Travolta shouldn't just be voted off--he should be drowned and his body eaten by all of the starving celebrities.
In all likelihood, Evolution has Charles Darwin wishing he never went to the Galapagos.
It's that time again. The weather is getting hotter, the days are getting longer, and the kids are out of school.
These are the voyages of the Star Trek convention on its continuing mission to explore sci-fi, to seek out new fans and product lines and to boldly go where no television show's revenue stream has...
In the premiere of HBO's praiseworthy new series Six Feet Under, Nate Fisher (Peter Krause) flashes back to the first time he saw his mortician father exhuming a corpse.
Is your sitcom ready for greener pastures? Has the show "Jumped the Shark?".
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the new Radiohead album is how unsurprising it is.
Fashionistas, fear not. Voyeurs, enjoy the view. The fourth season of Sex and the City retains its trademark style and more skin than the Spice Channel. It retains hints of sarcasm and satire.
Rufus Wainwright debuted in 1998 and received widespread critical praise from mainstream magazines to indie-minded fringe publications.
What can you say about The Goo Goo Dolls? The band, which rivals Creed for the distinction of "worst spawn of the Grunge movement," has achieved a new musical low--an entire album of poorly remixed...
You've got to respect this. After being royally panned by critics and radio stations in 1996, Weezer disappears for five years.
