Come for the aliens and stay for the naval warfare, and you’ll wind up raving about the patriotic salutes. Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’ may be based on a board game, but it ultimately defies anything you’re expecting — in the …
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Moonrise Kingdom: Escapees from a Doll House
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival kicks off with Wes Anderson’s sweet tale of runaway lovers on the cusp of adolescence
Garbage’s Reunion Rock Record Feels More Like an Anomaly
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
Ignore all the dark, grungy, essentially ’90s alt-rock entrapments, …
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh
As Borat and Brüno he was the supreme scamp of ambush comedy. Now he channels Gaddafi for his riskiest venture: being kind of sweet
Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash
In a spiffy Encores! revival, Megan Hilty wows the crowd as the not-so-dumb blond Lorelei Lee, the role that made Monroe a star
Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee: The Blur Frontman Takes a Moody Detour
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
Dr Dee might not be the place in Damon Albarn‘s canon you want to call …
Tonight You’re Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-‘n’-Roll Romance
They meet, they fight, they’re handcuffed together. How else can two people who hate each other fall in love at a Scottish music festival?
Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over
In their eighth film together, the star and his favorite director turn the ’60s horror soap opera into a middling pastiche
Where Do We Go Now?: A Dramedy About Women Trying to Stop War
They want peace. How do they get it? With belly dancers and hashish, for starters.
Girl in Progress? Eva Mendes Spins Her Wheels
Eva Mendes is the cutest Bad Mother around in Patricia Riggen’s amiable but slight single mama drama
Keane Takes a Step Backwards with Strangeland
Four years ago, it seemed liked Keane was finally evolving.
Until that time, they’d been endlessly corralled with Coldplay and Snow Patrol, bands also known for their emotionally exploitative production. But 2008’s Perfect …
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Check In, You Won’t Want to Leave
The combined forces of British acting talent is practically superhuman; like The Avengers for the senior set
First Position: A Documentary That Stays On Point
In her sweetly soft-shoe directorial debut, documentarian Bess Kargman paints a portrait of ambitious young dancers in a highly competitive world