To be fair, the first half of the album is fairly enjoyable, though not groundbreaking.

Willett's characters are real to anyone who has ever taught adults.

Each essay is self-contained, making it possible to choose those most relevant to your own interests.

How Fiction Works is a marvelously readable appreciation of how Wood's favorite writers achieve their effects.

Music is the soul of this movie.

The bright resonance of the guitar and the glimmering backdrop of the rhythm section provide the perfect setting for frontman Michael Gross to impart his heartfelt lyrics.

Lovely by Surprise is an odd, odd movie with a lot of charm.

Tulpan is an episodic film, the opposite of the traditional Hollywood product.

The lack of effort is evident in everything from the feeble attempts to update the script to some notably out-of-focus shots inexplicably left in the final cut.

You, which was written by her husband, Gildart Jackson, has already achieved considerable success since its release.

When the time came for Public Enemies, Michael Mann was ready to make the film that would secure his place as one of the great American filmmakers.

As musicians, chemistry as strong and as natural as theirs is difficult to come by.

The acting prize in this show has to go to a woman who already has a Tony, Beth Leavel, who plays Miss Hannigan.

70,000 or so fans, hippies and hipsters and frat boys, descend to live on the 700-acre farm outside Manchester for the four-day event, turning the flat land into a seething mass of humanity.

Sexually-charged short stories from Israeli cartoonist Koren Shadmi.

This gender-bending shojo manga offers a detailed portrait of life at the end of an historical era.

Man of Aran was a silent film, and almost remains so with the new soundtrack.

The disc's pristine sound quality presents each element with total clarity, in particular Shauf's exquisite harmonized vocals.

Compared to Get Yr. Blood Sucked Out, Rose City seems more arranged, but to my brief, short-lived chagrin, less heavy.

Zenovich finds plenty of guilt to spread around to others involved in the case.

There were more than 80 acts spread out over three days, and I did my best to make it worth it. I saw 31 bands—and I have a few words on all of them.

Over the course of the interview, both Docter and Rivera were doodling both while listening to and answering questions, and would only lift pen from paper if they needed to pantomime a part of a story they were telling.