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Grindhouse, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's homage to B-movie double-features, may be around the three-hour mark, but it's probably the craziest and most fun three hours you could get for your money. You are, after all, paying to watch two movies for the price of one, and not just mundane dramas, but rather the over-saturated, near-masturbatory zaniness of two of mainstream Hollywood's more ambitious directors.… Post the First Comment

POW! BANG! You know how right before the opening credits in most Hollywood movies, there's a huge explosion, or someone getting thrown from a sheer rock face or maybe people having sex? You know how sometimes that first shocker really makes the movie, because after that, you can't help but tense yourself for that next surge of adrenaline?Well, Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills is all about movies, or at least the people who make them.… Post the First Comment

Rich with vibrant contrasts, The Namesake for once doesn't leave you wishing you had read the book first. It's a true testament to a movie's fluency when you find yourself recognizing its faults, accepting them and allowing them to pass so that you can get back to the movie itself.… Post the First Comment

DJ Girl Talk from Pittsburgh, Pa., burst the very cosmos at its seams from the Ottobar last Friday night, emanating a fizzing, heaving firework of funking, hopping, mesmerizing beats. Collide that fact with the controversial political statement his music and his show collectively represent, and you have a messiah.… 2 Comments