With a tagline like "Three relationships. Three disasters. One last chance," one might expect the fourth disaster that the wordsmith who composed that line forgot to mention will be the film itself. But...

Chances are, there has been a time in your life when you felt like you didn't fit in; a time when it felt like everyone but you had a niche, a role, an identity. And, chances are, you felt like you were...

This should have been the first movie I ever wrote about. It's that important to me that you watch it IMMEDIATELY. By that I mean, watch it the next time you have four free hours and a hankering for Jane...

Hayao Miyazaki is one of those directors you are either obsessed with or have never heard of. I am obsessed with him. His movies are incredibly creative, bordering on insane. They're all animated, but...

"These past three and a half months have been very tough," Oscars host Jon Stewart told the crowd at Kodak Theater on Sunday night. "The town was torn apart by a bitter writers strike, but I'm happy to...

George Bernard Shaw's controversial "Major Barbara," directed by Nancy Simon, addresses unending issues concerning faith, morality and its relation to poverty.     The play centers around Major Barbara...

According to the 2004 survey by the National Endowment for the Arts called "Reading at Risk," less than half of Americans read literature for pleasure.   The national decline in reading culture has been...

For those with patience, and a strong ability to ignore the sense of being dragged inexorably toward disappointment, "Lost": on ABC, Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. this season: has provided all the fascination,...

A house full of fine arts fiends can be a colorful group dynamic. This semester's residents are a mix of photographers, painters, actors and dancers. Surprisingly, none of them are fine arts majors. "Even...

The Visiting Writers Series returns this semester with a reading by author Jon Clinch at 7 p.m. today in Kimball. Clinch is the author of "Finn: A Novel," released in 2007. The book was named one of the...

The 2008 Academy Awards: mercifully saved from an ignominious press conference by the end of the Writers Strike: will be announced on Feb. 24. Below, the Pioneer's resident film critics give their picks...

"Once" is the kind of movie you get done watching and then ask yourself, "Why do I EVER watch movies that aren't independent?" The answer is: because you're brainwashed. Fight the system. Watch "Once." Shot...