Archive for May, 2009
Pixar’s ‘Up’ Dominates Box Office
Rapturous reviews and a colossal marketing campaign sent “Up” into the box office stratosphere over the weekend.
Film: ‘Lost’ and Found: The Krofft Vision
A look at “Land of the Lost” and other creations of Sid and Marty Krofft.
Film: Finding the Fun in Eternal Frat Boys
With “The Hangover” and other films, the director Todd Phillips makes a career in mining over-the-top moments for laughs.
Film: Rendezvous on a Path With a French Artist
“Séraphine” tells the story of a solitary housemaid who transcended class taboos to find her art.
New Video Game? Who You Gonna Call?
Dan Aykroyd and the Ghostbusters are aiming their proton packs at a fresh generation through video games.
DVDs | Dave Kehr: One Man’s Love Life
After decades of neglect in the English-speaking world the French filmmaker Philippe Garrel has recently been enjoying a revival.
Bill Graham, Unleashed
“Fillmore: The Last Days” chronicles the blustering, abusive side of the concert promoter Bill Graham.
The Making of Zach Galifianakis
How did a 39-year-old, overweight, red-bearded stand-up comedian become his generation’s great white comedic hope?
The Medium: Lights! Camera! Inaction!
People using the Internet look boring. How are TV and Hollywood dramatizing them?
Fusion tests set at new Livermore facility
Outside a concrete slab of a building 10 stories high that holds the most powerful array of lasers and high-precision optics ever assembled, the scientists, engineers and workers who created the massive structure at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
