The Raw deal [with video]

Second-year art major Laura Lin is framing a handful of portraits—many watercolors, a few oil pastels, most still bearing the heavy pencil lashings of a young artist—on a makeshift table beneath a single lamp and an open ceiling.

Knowing the Drill

After writing, directing and/or producing a four-year string of comedy hits (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Judd Apatow could be forgiven for taking a little break, if for no reason other than to preserve the […]

Tracey takes on…America

“Battlestar Galactica: Revisited”Thursday 10pm, Sci-Fi Channel This half-hour special gives you everything you need to know about the critically acclaimed sci-fi show, conveniently airing before its fourth and final season begins next week. Countless critics (myself included) have praised “Galactica,” and it really is a fantastic show. People get spooked by the “sci-fi” banner, and […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town 10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since […]

Capsule reviews of films playing in town

10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since The 13th Warrior. Playing […]

One Seuss, two Seuss

Now that we’re all safely outside the biohazard zone created by 2000’s Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas and 2003’s Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, I think we can all agree that live-action versions of Dr. Seuss books are just wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s of some comfort, then, that the 2008 feature […]

It's Britney, bitch

“The Riches”Tuesday 10pm, FXThis show is fantastic, but it stresses me out. The amazing Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver play Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, a married couple that are part of the Irish Traveler community. While fleeing their con-man tribe, they caused an accident that resulted in the death of Doug and Cherien Rich, a […]