Checking in with Allyson Mellberg-Taylor
My husband Jeremy [Taylor] and I are making a collaborative drawing or painting—in our case, they’re sort of one and the same.
Shorts: Bigger than you'd expect
You might say that writer-producer-director-cinematographer-co-editor-composer-visual-effects-supervisor-re-recording-mixer Robert Rodriguez has a lot of energy when it comes to making movies. You might use words other than “restrained” to describe him. And if […]
Say you want an evolution?
“The Human Family Tree” Sunday 9pm, National Geographic Channel No matter whether you believe in the process of evolution or that God created Adam and Eve, bottom line is we […]
Movies playing in town this week
(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 […]
Basterds of young
When revisiting World War II at the movies, it is natural to want to transcend the mawkish and gingerly tedious subgenre of The Serious Holocaust Drama. Efforts in that vein, […]
Watch and judge
“Octomom: The Unseen Footage” Wednesday 8pm, Fox Depending on your point of view, Nadya Suleman is either very ambitious, though possibly misguided; over her head and completely out of touch […]
Capsule Reviews
(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 […]
Checking in with Sam Bush
What are you working on these days? We’re trying to record over the next month or two. What that’ll look like at first is probably a few demos, before we […]
Ground control to Moon
“My upbringing was pretty weird,” says David Bowie’s son. I know: You’re thinking, “No way.” But sure enough—or so Duncan Jones, the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie, told the […]