Tim Robbins

Ten videos using Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" cue-card concept

​Bob Dylan make one of the earliest "music videos" ever with a clip from D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 documentary Don't Look Back. Accompanying the masterful "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan daftly tosses cue cards that wittily accompany his lyrics with the occasional misspelling ("suckcess").This w ... More >>

Director Brady Kiernan talks Stuck Between Stations, music, and Minneapolis

Photo by Kris Drake​Local director Brady Kiernan knows how to work. Since finishing his film degree in 2002, he's made his mark on the Twin Cities scene the old fashioned way, through blood, sweat, and skill. Working his way up has paid off with project after project: he's produced multiple ... More >>

Tim Robbins donated to Michele Bachmann's campaign

The lefty actor chipped in $500 to Bachmann's 2006 campaign, according to The Daily Beast.

Dead Man Walking

Kevin McHale: Too sleepy for his own good

Letters from the Big House

Brian Dennehy helps restore the name of Dalton Trumbo

Walk A Mile In My Headphones

'Tarnation' director Jonathan Caouette makes a mix tape of his life

Puppet Regime

The 'South Park' boys pull the strings in the new 'America'

Flirting With Death

How an unlikely date led to the writing of 'The Exonerated'

The Show-Stopping Number

Doing the calculus on mathematical dramas

Get Me Gwyneth

How to remake the New York Film Festival's arthouse esoterica for the midwestern megaplex

Vengeance Is His

With the remorseful 'Mystic River,' Clint Eastwood gets even with Dirty Harry

From The Cradle To The Grave--And Back Again

Frank revives a labor cry, 'The Cradle Will Rock'; 'Urinetown' whizzes through town

Say What?

The Venice Film Festival gives voice to the global cacophony

Nouvelle Vague

'The Truth About Charlie' appears inconclusive

That Seventies Show

August Wilson's Jitney dresses for excess; Stephen King's Shawshank Redemption tries the stage

She's All That (and Then Some)

Twin Cities native and teen idol Rachael Leigh Cook extends her range to The Hi-Line

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

Massa Peal

A Threat Near You

Arlington Road brings domestic terrorism to the neighborhood multiplex

Over There

While American critics script eulogies for foreign film, this year's festival at Cannes suggests that reports of its death are an exaggeration

The Straight Story

Ameri-Cannes: Screening the Yanks

The Red Curtain

A new play, "Project 891", puts the spotlight on New Deal theater, HUAC, and the mother of all arts-funding debates.

House of the Rising Sun

Next week Red House Records issues a momentous tribute album of Pete Seeger's songs. But after 15 years at the margins of American music, this St. Paul label proudly aims to stay there.

Losing It at Sundance

The Amerindie film fest continues to inspire madness and money--and occasionally, art.