Twenty-seven years ago, Raiders of the Lost Ark introduced the world to an unconventional archaeologist named Indiana Jones. With the DVD release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we pick up with the adventures of Indy (Harrison Ford), his former love Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and a young man named Mutt [...]
Creating lasting change is seldom an easy task. Just ask the more than 40,000 people who protested the Word Trade Organization’s 1999 summit in Seattle. The WTO is a coalition of international big businesses and other organizations that largely control the economic fate of the world. Their policies decide the political destinies of third world [...]
Anne Hathaway delivers an emotional and captivating performance as the "Rachel Getting Married's" central figure, Kym, creating a sarcastic, self-centered and utterly real person on screen.
XXY is a rare gem of a film. It is sharply cut, meticulously polished, and completely one of a kind. The Argentine film tells the story of Alex, a 15-year-old with an unusual secret: she is both a boy and a girl. Amid the beautiful landscapes of coastal Uruguay, XXY weaves the lives of Alex’s [...]
For Sudanese child-soldier-turned-hip-hop-artist Emmanuel Jal, the wreckage of childhood trauma and the courage to persevere comes out on the title track of his album Warchild: “I’m a war child / I believe I’ve survived for a reason / To tell my story, to touch lives.”
Aaron Cohen travels around the world like a one-man army, fighting sweatshops, sex slavery, and human exploitation by liberating one person at a time.
The space fills with the warmth of carefully orchestrated noise pouring from Randy Randall’s grimy guitar layers and Dean Spunt’s thump-thump drums. The Ukrainian Culture Center is at a confluence of Los Angeles’s old-guard zine punks and the new school’s viral video generation of digipunks. But No Age is old school.
Sometimes, an actor’s career begins with an ending. “Yup, I was a tail-end of a dinosaur,” says Summer Bishil...
"Gonzo style is a series of riffs: partly truth, partly fiction—sometimes pure fiction—with serious reporting. I also think it represented being “gone”—being able to ingest a lot of drugs. Hunter was Gonzo in that sense too..."
Playing the role of the arrogant, underground fighter in the film Never Back Down, Gigandet channels the spirit of every prep-school pretty boy and trust-fund meathead you’ve ever met in this Karate Kid for the twenty-first century.