Juno, the latest of this year’s films about unexpected pregnancy, is not yet in wide release but is already being called the female answer to Knocked Up. (more…)

What Would Jesus Buy? sounds like a reactionary right-wing religious slogan. However, this documentary is a relatively left-wing protest of over-consumption — particularly America’s extreme shopping at Christmas time — led by fictitious Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. (more…)

A bizarre synthesis of psychedelia and electronica, Ultimate Reality again unites visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche with electro-spazz musician Dan Deacon. (more…)

Following the critical success of the semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale (2005), writer/director Noah Baumbach furthers his decade-long tour of upper-middle-class dysfunction in Margot at the Wedding. (more…)

Romances, the 2004 collaboration between Norwegian composer John Erik Kaada and vocal maestro Mike Patton, was what one could expect from an alliance of the two genre-busting musicians: a sound collage of moody, noirish elements. (more…)

Palace of Mirrors Live, a vibrant performance DVD, showcases the virtuosic abilities of six-piece group Estradasphere. Their musical maelstrom of classical, metal, jazz, Balkan, Japanese, and surf is a spectacle to behold on stage. (more…)

Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald will act as keynote speaker this Friday, November 16 at the inaugural Alt-Film Festival. The event serves as an introduction to independent filmmaking and how to operate outside of the Hollywood structure. (more…)

Hollywood’s favorite cinema pranksters, the Coen Brothers, return with another cinematic mish-mash in No Country for Old Men. The film combines two of their most mined sources of material, shop-worn film noir themes and sly Southern colloquialisms, into one unsatisfying whole. It could be Fargo, Texas, but without the hospitality. (more…)

Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis may be rock’s ultimate death-and-rebirth archetype. Like Kurt Cobain after him, his early suicide ensured that his visionary music would live long after he did. But in Control, director Anton Corbijn is more interested in the man than the mythos. (more…)

In his fifth and latest feature, The Darjeeling Limited, American writer/director Wes Anderson and his familiar cast of goofball collaborators take to India in a comic tragedy. Featured are Francis, Jack, and Peter Whitman, three estranged brothers who reunite a year after their father’s death for a “spiritual” journey of reconciliation. (more…)