Class Debate: Cantet's New Quasi-Documentary

Sara Ziff: Columbia students rarely tend to dare professors mid-lecture to pull down their pants.

By Sara Ziff and Alexandria Symonds | Jan 30 04:03 am ET

MTV Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple With Hills Spin-Off

With any MTV reality show, there’s bound to be a little Vaseline on the lens. The Hills, for instance, exists in a world where you can live in L.A. for years without ever seeing a black person.

By Alexandria Symonds | Jan 3 10:59 am ET

More Than a Simple Ballast From the Past

Lance Hammer, writer and director of Ballast, is a slight, soft-spoken man, a fact that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who sees his first film.

By Alexandria Symonds | Sep 30 11:28 pm ET

Always the Brideshead, Never Quite Right

There's at least one occasion on which Julian Jarrold's new film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited could be indispensable.

By Alexandria Symonds | Aug 9 07:23 am ET

On MTV, The Paper Beats Rock—Sort Of

Say what you will about MTV reality shows—call them trashy, exploitative, or amazing—and you’ll probably be right.

By Alexandria Symonds | Apr 13 11:17 pm ET

Le Loup Shows Audience the State of the Union

Union Hall is a perfect match for Le Loup.

By Alexandria Symonds | Apr 11 03:00 am ET

Cut Copy and Paste Yourself into a Rocking Concert

Major holidays, as a general rule, make it tough to fill a concert venue. Mondays are also tough. When the two happen to align, you can pretty much guarantee a subdued set.

By Alexandria Symonds | Apr 2 08:59 pm ET

No Loafing on the Path to Nirvana in Mediocre Meatloaf: In Search of Paradise

“Well, the film is about—you don’t know what it’s about,” Meat Loaf says to filmmaker Bruce David Klein in an early on-camera interview in Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise.

By Alexandria Symonds | Mar 31 10:49 pm ET

Van Sant's Paranoid Park Offers a Fresh Take on Teenage Drama

At first blush, Gus Van Sant’s newest film seems a lot like an extended M83 music video.

By Alexandria Symonds | Mar 24 10:54 pm ET

My So-Called quarterlife or Something

“Why do we blog?” asks Dylan, the lead character in the new NBC series, quarterlife, already a series of web episodes and a social networking Web site. “We blog to...”

She pauses.

By Alexandria Symonds | Feb 25 10:51 pm ET