Model Shares Runway Experience

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Carol Alt talks to Julie Chen about her book “This Year’s Model,” a novel about what it takes to make the career choice of being a model. Click here for the full video clip

Sheryl Crow shows support for Obama

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews and Sugarland showed their support for Barack Obama and Joe Biden, by kicking off the four-day Democratic Convention in Denver, with a performance Sunday Night. Click here for the full video clip

Music videos take a turn for the simpler

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

So much for music fans wanting their MTV. The newest trend in music videos are stripped down, intimate, videotaped performances. Click here for the full video clip

'Traitor': Complicated and Brilliant

By Marcos Bernal-Salas

It’s rare that one comes across a very surprising film; especially if such film opens at the very end of the summer. That’s the case with ‘Traitor’, starring Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (‘Crash’ and ‘Hotel Rwanda’) in an action thriller that not only serves up on the popular genre but also delivers a captivating story. Click here for the full article

'Year of the Fish': Cinderella in New York

By Daniel Montgomery

The Cinderella story has been retold by Hollywood ad infinitum, but it’s safe to say that this is a new one. ‘Year of the Fish’ is the feature directing debut of David Kaplan, but it isn’t his first fairy tale; he has made short films with familiar titles like ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The Frog King’. The inspiration for his latest was a 9th Century Chinese tale that predates the better known Cinderella story by some eight centuries. It involves a girl, a stepmother, and, yes, a fish, but in this story the girl is an immigrant living in New York City’s Chinatown, the stepmother is the manager of an illicit massage parlor, and the fish is, well, still a fish. Click here for the full article

'Hamlet 2': No Holds Bard

By Daniel Montgomery

I knew little about ‘Hamlet 2’ before seeing it, only that it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and told the story of a fictitious production of a sequel to the Bard’s iconic tragedy. If I had known it starred Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener, I would have been more excited. If I knew it were this funny, I would have been ecstatic. There’s surprise in nearly every frame, and though uneven, it builds to one of the best comic crescendos I’ve seen. I don’t want to tell you about this film, I want you to see it for yourself. Click here for the full article