Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel, reminded her while she was there shooting her new film, Somewhere. It's the first feature to be granted clearance to shoot extensively inside the rooms...
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In Mike Cahill's Another Earth — a multiple prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival and one of two titles movies OR titles (to avoid rep of "film") co-written by and starring the festival's biggest breakout, Brit Marling — both hope and anxiety follow the discovery of Earth 2, a...
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Since we're a heartbeat away from being sick to death of this month's crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we've decided to cast a quick glance forward to the 2011 films we're excited to see. We've seen some of those below and make no promises for the others, but, as ever, we're...
drink can easily be made at home, click here for a recipe. Dessert: French Macarons Every time the character of Chanda is on the screen, I want one of these delicious little devils. I suggest picking up a few macarons from Essence Bakery in Tempe. We went with the Meyer...
Since Teen Wolf Marcel left last week with his facial hair grooming products and "You haven't heard the last of me!" exit line (until Top Chef All Stars: Foam and Rap airs), nine cheftestants are left to duke it out for the title. On last night's episode, the chefs find...
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True Grit: How the West Is Won
Part of G-Unit isn't feeling so hot right now. Rapper and actor 50 Cent is being sued for copyright infringement, according to Billboard.It turns out that rapping about how you've got tons of money isn't always a good thing. Atlanta rapper Caliber is filing a lawsuit against Fitty and the...
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive, equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view. Writer/director...
Lilly Romo runs an English school blocks from the Arizona Capitol. Classes are held in a white adobe building with nothing on its façade but a sign advertising Escuela de Inglés. Its walls are thin and bare except for a series of certificates praising student achievement and a list of...
PEARCE'S PROBLEM Classic AZ double-standard: At first blush, I thought that your story on Russell Pearce's son's problems was dirty pool. But after considering the ending of your piece — where you note that he has condemned children of illegal aliens because of the transgressions of their parents — I...
The new Winter 2010-11 menu at Tuck Shop doesn't actually say "poutine," but foodies already know that fries, Gruyere cheese, and mushroom gravy amount to a Canadian cult dish that's been popping up on local menus lately. That's just one of the new items that caught my eye on the...
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Silver Agonistes
Michelle Rosado stands a few feet from the ropes, bouncing back and forth and clapping her hands as the ring announcer summons Phoenix fighter Alexis "Beaver" Santiago to his corner. It's Rosado's debut boxing show — Friday Night Fights — and Santiago, a local favorite, is going against Walter Santilbanes...
Other than a simple slate-rock sign before it that reads "Quan Yin Family," there's little to distinguish the one-story house from any other in this rural patch of Buckeye, where horseback riders and children on motorized mini-bikes share the area's unpaved roads. "Quan Yin" refers to the Quan Yin method...
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The Tourist gawks at its stars, visits Venice, has twist. Men follow Angelina Jolie in The Tourist. Men and cameras. They follow her — chic, coiffed, assless — through the streets of Paris. They follow her onto the train to impossible, floating Venice, where she heads on the instruction of...
Actor and comedian Dane Cook's been in movies alongside the likes of Steve Carrell (Dan in Real Life) and Kevin Costner (Mr. Brooks), he's hosted Saturday Night Live twice, and had a hit comedy album, Retaliation. Now, he's on tour, and he'll be bringing his brand of observational humor to...
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Life is wonderful, death is wow, chance is weird, and Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is a puddle of tepid ick. Is America's last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), Eastwood rides a sleepy burro deep...
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Fest in the West
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Fest in the West
Phoenix actor Luis Avila in 7 SolesIf you missed filmmaker Pedro Ultreras’ brutal, uncompromising 7 Soles, which chronicles a tragic border-crossing through the Sonoran Desert by an ill-fated group of Mexican migrants, you missed a humdinger. Filmed in Arizona, the Spanish-language film received only a limited release, ironically showing to sold-out houses during its short run. Starring as one of the […]