Curb Your Enthusiasm

Wits: Paul F. Tompkins

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 8: Tour withdrawal

​Paul Schrader wrote the script to Taxi Driver while living in a station wagon. Such is the myth of the suffering artist. But beautiful crazy Van Gogh bastard established the archetype. We might stumble onto a kick-ass something in the morning, but by bedtime, the artist suffers by choice.

Elliot Hill, drummer for the Softrocks, passes away at age 26

Photos courtesy of Christy Hunt​Elliot Hill, best known locally as the drummer for the Softrocks, passed away on Monday, July 25, at the age of 26. Hill was diagnosed with colon cancer last September, and the cancer advanced to an untreatable stage and was diagnosed as terminal in April. In a ... More >>

The Sklar Brothers

Photos courtesy of Christy Hunt​Elliot Hill, best known locally as the drummer for the Softrocks, passed away on Monday, July 25, at the age of 26. Hill was diagnosed with colon cancer last September, and the cancer advanced to an untreatable stage and was diagnosed as terminal in April. In a ... More >>

Film Highlight: Whatever Works

Photos courtesy of Christy Hunt​Elliot Hill, best known locally as the drummer for the Softrocks, passed away on Monday, July 25, at the age of 26. Hill was diagnosed with colon cancer last September, and the cancer advanced to an untreatable stage and was diagnosed as terminal in April. In a ... More >>

MSPIFF shows off Minnesota's creative filmmaking community

Demon Love, Horror and Hope, White Man's World debut with flair

Film Highlight: Bolt

Demon Love, Horror and Hope, White Man's World debut with flair

Summer Grows Up

For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door

Donkey Punch

For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door

Top 10 Films of 2005 (plus many more)

For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door

Who Needs the Drama?

TV's dark comedies get their day in the sun

Theories of the Leisure Class

What's so funny about being rich and idle?

Bombs Away

'Masked & Anonymous' director Larry Charles lets it fly

Artists Of The Year

From escapist entertainment to aesthetic ecstasy: Twenty-nine writers script valentines to twelve months of culture

Instant Karma

Larry David's new HBO sitcom creates a universe of petty malevolence and endless distress