Nicolas Cage

Costume Party: Phoenix Comicon Is Here

Kick-Ass: Meet a Gang of Superheroes in the YouTube Age

Concert Review: The Swell Season at Mesa Arts Center

By Lindsey Holder I'm not sure how many bands I saw last night. ...maybe three-ish? The ticket said The Swell Season, but the show was more like The Swell Season, Glen Hansard, The Frames, and a combination of the three. I figured it would be fairly straightforward, with songs from The Swell Season ... More >>

In The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke Climbs Back in the Ring

By Lindsey Holder I'm not sure how many bands I saw last night. ...maybe three-ish? The ticket said The Swell Season, but the show was more like The Swell Season, Glen Hansard, The Frames, and a combination of the three. I figured it would be fairly straightforward, with songs from The Swell Season ... More >>

The Popcorn King

Why you should take Brett Ratner seriously

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 3, 2006

Why you should take Brett Ratner seriously

A Bug's Strife

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

No Power for the Powerless

Nobody in government's raising hell about the poverty-stricken Havasupai's struggle to survive without electricity during the summer's wrath

Xtreme Cuisine

Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über-rich

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Vein Glory

Exploitation cinema becomes art in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire

Silent Gunning

Follow The Way of the Gun, where dialogue is sparse but memorable, and be rewarded

2000 Wan

De Palma's out to launch with misfired Mission

Primary Killers

Assassin-themed The Jackal arrives DOA

Dreadfulsome

James Dean flick's sublime badness is inspiring

The Next New Wave

Our critic ventures to the Great White North, looking for the Worthy and Undistributed

Aloft Cause

Overblown Air Force One never gets off the ground