The pop punk stalwarts in Bowling for Soup have spent the years since their brief reign on the top of the charts in the early 2000's in a holding pattern that, musically speaking, one could argue has gone on for their entire career. The Texas quartet h...

Now Playing: Rio Genre: Animated Comedy Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann From the creators of the pretty good 'Ice Age,' out this weekend is the likely equally pretty good 'Rio.' The film foll...

'Let this whole town hear your knuckles crack,' John Darnielle declares on 'Damn These Vampires,' the opening track on the new Mountain Goats album, 'All Eternals Deck,' kicking things off with some of the bleakest and moodiest imagery he's written sin...

Now Playing: Arthur Genre: Comedy Starring: Russell Brand, Jennifer Garner, Helen Mirren After scoring a huge hit last week with 'Hop,' another Russell Brand starring vehicle, 'Arthur,' releases this weekend. It i...

Abbas Kiarostami's 'Certified Copy,' is the director's first narrative feature in nearly a decade, his first non-Persian language film and his first film shot outside of Iran ever. ...

Now Playing: Hop Genre: Comedy Starring: Russell Brand (voice), James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco In the style of such great films as 'Garfield,' 'Scooby Doo,' and 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua,' 'Hop' takes a cute CG animal,...

If you bought tickets to Screeching Weasel at the Trocadero on Thursday, April 7, chances are you know that the show was canceled, but you might not know why. ...

Now Playing: Sucker Punch

Genre: Action/Fantasy

Starring: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone

'Sucker Punch' ...

Now Playing: Limitless Genre: Thriller Starring: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro Out this weekend is 'Limitless,' the latest in a string of middling attempts to try and prove that Bradley Cooper can be the new Tom Cruise. Coop...

Now Playing: The Adjustment Bureau Genre: Sci-fi Thriller Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt 'The Adjustment Bureau' opens this weekend, and is maybe the first legitimately good movie option of the year. The thriller stars Matt Damon as a New Yo...

James Blake's self-titled debut album is the kind of thing that doesn't sound terribly appealing to most people on paper. Blake, a groundbreaking British producer, released four widely acclaimed EPs through 2009 and 2010, and the hype surrounding his w...

Now Playing: I Am Number Four Genre: Sci-Fi Action Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant 'I Am Number Four' releases this weekend, to little buzz and low expectations. The film is based on a semi-popular teen novel in which the prot...

Imagine a random stranger steals your cell phone, uses it, and pretends she knows you. This sounds like a nightmare to most of us, but it's actually a dark romantic comedy MacArthur 'Genius' Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl calls,...

Now Playing: The Eagle Genre: Historical Action Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland Another sword and sandal movie? Hasn't that genre run its course by now? In 'The Eagle,' Tatum stars as Marcus Aquila, a young Roman soldier...

The White Stripes were polarizing; passionate music fans either love or hate them. They've been criticized for their simplicity, and Meg White in particular has been targeted and completely dismissed as a hack by some. This is far from the case. The Wh...

This past Sunday, almost all of America tuned in to watch the Super Bowl, as they do every year. Unfortunately, that meant all of America tuned in to watch what was essentially a pop-culture train wreck, an assault on the very concept of entertainment ...

I found myself at a psychedelic concert this weekend, and boy was I in for a ride. ...

Patton Oswalt, the veteran stand-up comedian and actor best known for his roles in 'Ratatouille' and 'The King of Queens,' has found the perfect medium for his eloquent, profane and distinctly literary voice: a collection of essays, memoirs and other o...

Now Playing: The Roommate Genre: Horror/Thriller Starring: Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly 'The Roommate' looks like a sub-par slasher that we've seen a million times before. The plot, which most people could probably guess from the title alo...