Wes Anderson

Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

A filmmaker from Minnesota tells the story behind a lost animated masterpiece, plus hits and misses of the fest by our critics

Bora York's Chris Bartels: If I had stuck with folk rock, I would've been settling

As many artists before that have set out to reinvent themselves, Chris Bartels, too, has turned his music aesthetic inside out for his new project, Bora York. The new band has Bartels including his wife, Rebekah, and a few other artists collaborating on a new sound that has built on Chris' former mu ... More >>

Total Trash tape release at 7th Street Entry, 3/14/13

Total Trash Tape Release/Tour Kickoff with Brain Tumors, The Miami Dolphins and Ugly Motors 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis Thursday, March 14, 2013A sign was created somewhere in the midst of the promotional blitz for Total Trash's tape release. It included the slogan "TAKE BACK THE ENTRY FOR THE PUN ... More >>

Me As a Pilot: My live show is like watching How I Met Your Mother on really cheap whiskey

One of the risky things about releasing an album at the end of the year is that it will get lost in the shuffle of year-end lists, but this is something that Minneapolis artist Nick Costa, aka Me As a Pilot, is not concerned about. Although he self-recorded and performs a lot of the parts himself on ... More >>

2012 Film Critics' Poll

The critics' picks from best film to best performers

The Zombie Pub Crawl 2012 playlist

Yes boys and girls, Saturday is that magical time of the year when zombies take to the West Bank's local watering holes and now Midway Stadium to get intoxicated with Brain Belt. The Zombie Pub Crawl is upon us, and with zombie-mania more in the media than ever, this year's should be the biggest yet ... More >>

Spencer McGillicutty (the band) on writerly songwriting and school days

Spencer McGillicutty -- they're a band, not a person -- mine the sounds of early-'60s AM gold on their third album, All the Happy People! Throughout, the local group swings effortlessly between cotton-candy sweet group sing-a-longs and wistful acoustic balladry. Employing a rotating co-ed cast of f ... More >>

Critics' Picks: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Buck 65, Lil' Kim, and more

Spencer McGillicutty CD-release show

Movies much anticipated in 2012

Red Tails, This Is Forty, and more

Great movie and dinner combos for a night in

Theater prices are for suckas​Dinner and movie nights don't have to break the bank.  Sometimes after a long week it's even easier to whip up a quick meal at home, load up an old flick, and snuggle into the couch, plush and cozy.  Save a little cash and take these suggestions for an ea ... More >>

Film Highlight: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Weekend movie guide: The flicks to pick

Your best bets on the big screen this weekend.

Picked to Click 2009: Red Pens voted Twin Cities' best new band

Celebrating the 10 winners of this year's best-new-bands poll

John Hughes dead at 59

The director of Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles died of a heart attack this afternoon.

Jeremy Messersmith: The Silver City

Hamlet 2: Not To Be

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

Summit Beer Movie Contest Winners Hit the Web

Move Along, Kids

Unlucky Break

Marvin Gaye's divorce album tops this week's pop culture picks

Film Highlight: The Royal Tenenbaums

Margot sees family for what it is: prickly

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

area theaters, starts Friday

Strangers on a Train

Wes Anderson's Road-Trip Tale of Brotherly Love Stings with the Depth (Yes, Depth) of His Whimsy

'The Wendell Baker Story' Is a Dysfunctional Family Affair

Luke, Owen, and Andrew Wilson forgot to feed their pet project

Escape Artists

Modern times got you down? Sneak out of the house, creep down to the docks, and stow away on the good ship Decemberists

We Don't Live Here Anymore

'The Squid and the Whale' swims under the surface of divorce

Are you there Hollywood? It's me, Diablo

My adventures (so far) in the screenwriting trade

Hollywood's Phantom Menace

Thirty summers after Jaws attacked intelligent filmmaking, the question remains: Why are the movies so bad? A search for answers with David Thomson

Boys in the Corner

Jonathan Safran Foer, Wes Anderson, Conor Oberst, and the new male infantilism

We Heart Huckabees!

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

In Over His Head

As a filmmaking metaphor, 'The Life Aquatic' is all wet

Get Stuffed

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is sometimes hard to swallow

Spike and Sofia on the Skids?

Opposite aesthetics would seem to spell splitsville for indie cinema's power couple

Get Me Gwyneth

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

The New Pornographers: Electric Version

The Year In Film

Three movie critics pick 21 favorites (and only one in common) from 2002.

Billy Come Lately

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

French Tickler

Catherine Millet remembers yesterday's orgies; Dennis Cooper brutalizes today's teens

Catching in the Wry

Nine stories about the Salingeresque quality of Gen X cinema

Analyze This

Movie Matters

After September 11: Projecting the future of entertainment at the New York Film Festival

Big Man(child) on Campus

The Year in Film

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Coming Attractions?

A wish list of might-be hits from the New York Film Festival