I present to you the first installment of "The Cowboys & Aliens Interviews".
On the surface, James Cameron's films appear to be mostly about pure spectacle. However, Titanic was driven by the story of Rose, played by Gloria Stuart in her 90s.
People play video games for all sorts of reasons. Some like the stories, others the carnage and mayhem, some just want to come home after a tough day and catch a 40-yard floater in the end zone from digital Tom Brady.
Women rule this week. Gillian Welch, ‪Beyoncé‬, and Dolly Parton dig for Americana, country, and pop gold, while Selena Gomez gives the tweens another dose of Disney. Poor American Idol David Cook doesn't have a fighting chance.
The contrast between Jolie's extraordinary devotion to humanitarian work on behalf of dispossessed people and our shallow fixation on her looks and personal life could not be more jarring.
A new show, evocatively titled "David Bowie, Artist," seeks to re-frame the glam rocker's artistic output as a lifelong performance piece of sorts.
Twitter serves Family Guy writer/producer Alec Sulkin the way The New Yorker once served S. J. Perelman: as a venue in which to showcase his wares and develop celebrity caché outside of Hollywood proper. In front of the scenes.
Comedian Eugene Mirman appeared on The Interview Show to discuss his career, lip-synching a Bill Cosby record for a school book report, giving Pauly Shore a back rub and more.
With an extensive tour in progress and the recent release of their latest album, Rocket Science, Béla and his Flecktones are back to work delighting listeners with the sweet sounds of bluegrass fusion.
Each episode of Royal Pains is a joy to watch. The scripts are well written, the scenery is lush, and the actors are all believable and enjoyable in their roles.
Like any true rebbe, certainly like Shlomo Carlebach, Bob Dylan is spectacularly flawed. But like any true rebbe, he has worlds to teach us about ourselves and this life, and we know this much: we are simply not going to get this stuff from anyone else.
What do Elmo, the New York Times, McDonald's coffee, transsexual tennis star Renee Richards, a chimp using sign language, electric cars, the real horse whisperer and Al Franken have in common?
I was happy to hear an NPR feature this weekend on Mason Jar Music, a new collective of young producers/musicians in Brooklyn, who have their own twist on getting access to abandoned buildings and recording and filming there.
Lelia Broussard and Ewan Currie of The Sheepdogs are the finalists in a contest sponsored by Garnier Fructis where the winner gets a contract with Atlantic Records and the cover of Rolling Stone.
"Why did you want to go into space?" was the first question that I asked of Guy Laliberté. I was intrigued by a man who would spend 11 days in a space station 220 miles above the earth... and return with 10,000 photographs.
A meditation on small-town South -- Georgia in specific -- its connection to the natural world and its death at the hands of growing populations and commercial interests, the film is quiet, beautiful, and strangely moving.
To the surprise of no one, a Pixar picture topped the box office in its debut weekend, making it 12/12 since 1995. Cars 2 weathered some surprisingly savage reviews to still debut with $68 million over the weekend.
Dave Walker, the New Orleans Times-Picayune television critic, has been following HBO's Treme for two seasons, documenting the show's cultural references with his weekly Explainer.
As an avid theatergoer, I have attended many a performance in which God was written into the script. With so much being written and performed about God, how does an arts critic raised in a family of Jewish atheists approach the subject matter?
Jeff Polman, 2011.06.28
