Roger Ebert

The Cube Critics Take Trivia Mafia

Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard unveils U.S. tour dates -- show at Woman's Club

See Also: Death Cab For Cutie at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, 8/26/2011 Death Cab For Cutie announce First Ave show, new album Low and Death Cab For Cutie team for tour After bringing his Death Cab For Cutie band mates through the Twin Cities twice in a span of three months last year in support of Codes ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Japandroids, Deep Blues Festival, the Walkmen, and more

John Prine

Forks Over Knives to premiere at the Lagoon this Wednesday

http://www.facebook.com/#!/forksoverknivesA new documentary that could change the way you think about food​Roger Ebert says this film "could save your life." A documentary that makes a profound claim that our "diseases of affluence" can be cured by "rejecting our present menu of animal-based ... More >>

Patton Oswalt on Twitter, Diablo Cody, and hipsters

Screwface Patton​If you don't recognize Patton Oswalt by name, you'll recognize him by his voice or face. The popular comedian nailed roles like Remy the rat in Pixar's Ratatouille and his unique mug is splashed all over Comedy Central like he's the sole breadwinner. Patton is returning to Minneap ... More >>

Lisa Lampanelli talks roasting, testicles (not together though)

​If you had the opportunity to catch Comedy Central's "Roast of David Hasselhoff" earlier this month, you know that no comedian hits harder than Lisa Lampanelli. In the course of one evening, she managed to lampoon everything from the Holocaust, Haiti, the oil spill in the Gulf and the Hoff's live ... More >>

The Lost Art of Conversation

Pandora's panache vs. a table for two

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Response to: "An Open Letter to the Man Who Raped My Wife"

Persona Grata

Meet the last great RPG for PlayStation 2

The 'Unknown' Truth

'White Male' filmmaker breaks the rules of documentary... but how?

What Moore Cannes Go Wong?

The personal schmoozes the political at the world's most influential film fest

Grrrl, Interrupted

DIY filmmaker Sarah Jacobson was a straight shooter to the end

Ghosts Gone Wild!

Oh, The Gaul!

Rancorous "Anti-Americanism" reigns at the 56th Cannes Film Festival

Mamá Said Cut It Out

Billy Come Lately

A satirist's belated acclaim mirrors our own screwy self-image

The Plaisir Principle

Or, Cannes 2001: How to love the movies without hating yourself

L'humanité

A look at celebrated cinema raises questions about the purity of its essence

Army of One

With Movie Wars, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum positions himself as the last line of defense against Hollywood tyranny

Artists Of The Year

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

Buried Alive

New fiction by Annie Proulx and Pat Barker delves into the dirt of memory and the legends of the land

Life Is Beautiful

Welcome to the Jungle

The confounding cinema of Werner Herzog thrusts Western society into the wilds of its own mind

Creative Impulses

Off Beat

Fear and Loathing in Cannes

An outsider's diary from Le Festival, where world cinema meets Planet Hollywood

Grrr-ella Filmmaking

Ex-Minnesotan Sarah Jacobson loses it confidently with Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore.

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