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Directed by Alireza Raisian Screenplay by Kambuzia Partovi Story by Abbas Kiarostami A photographer, Mahmoud, is driving along a rural road, slowing down to take occasional pictures. He gets out of the car and we see that his wife has been riding alongside him in the passenger seat. This slow …

Our mutating legend Bob Dylan, the folk-singing bluesman rock ‘n’ roller, poet visionary gigolo materialist mystic Christian Jew, who has swabbed us with the impassioned dew of youth, stroked us with the dry calm of age, cooed angelic honeyed melodies, and seethed with a “voice like sand and glue.” Dylan …

For years on his Pee Wee’s Playhouse TV show, and most concentratedly in Tim Burton’s classic Pee Wee’s Big Adventure film, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) walked the razor’s edge between innocence and decadence, willfully ignoring the implications of his determined naivete while the audience howled knowingly at the innuendo …

Roxy Saint — self-described “musician-performance artist-guerilla filmmaker” — has a new “line” of dresses fashioned from trash bags. The emaciated anti-fashionista is calling the limited line “TRASH COUTURE” – the first dresses are now available for view and order here, all priced at $55.00: rather pricey for a trash bag, …

We don’t have any reviews of the new SpongeBob Squarepants movie yet, although we have plenty of info on it here and Bill Lamb’s review of the soundtrack — with tracks from The Shins, Wilco, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Avril Lavigne and Motorhead — here. And we have glad tidings …

Apparently operating under the assumption that he won’t whip out anything untoward, the NFL has signed Paul McCartney to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Jacksonvile on February 6. In case you have been spelunking or time-traveling for the last year, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson had …

Japan's pop-rock princesses star in their own cartoon kidshow. . .

U2 SNL video of “I Will Follow” here. As Randy Reichardt and Lono have already ably and passionately described, U2 brought down the house last night on SNL, first blowing through the greatest rock single of the year, the effervescent and elevating “Vertigo,” then easing things down for “Sometimes You …

Oscar nominated writer, director, producer Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) and his favorite leading man Bill Murray — looking every inch the paterfamilias in paunch and gray beard — return December 10 (NY/LA, December 25 nationwide) with Touchstone’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, which looks to …

John Mayer — the Grammy-winning, triply talented, hugely popular jazzy pop-rock singer, songwriter and guitarist — has a new TV show coming to VH1 called John Mayer Has A TV Show. A peculiar hybrid, it’s one part documentary, one part travelogue and one part sketch comedy, shot guerrilla-stylee on the …