This week we've got the classy (the Powell/Pressburger epic ballet masterpiece, The Red Shoes) to the trashy, as E Street plays 3D porn at midnight. We've also got the latest from the world's oldest active filmmaker, a potential guilty pleasure in the making from Liam Neeson, and more Academy Award nominee screenings. more ›

Nostalgia can be a powerful drug. While under its influence, I could talk at length about how great the 1981 Clash of the Titans is. In reality, that's a 10-year-old version of myself talking, wowed by monster battles, mechanical owls, and bickering Olympian gods. OK, so maybe the present-day version of myself is still enamored of all those aspects, particularly the legendary Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion swan song in the monster department. But that doesn't change the fact that the original Clash isn't really a very good movie, a revisionist take on Greek mythology that mainly serves as an excuse for lots of fun sword-and-sandal action set pieces. Given an understanding of that going in, and fueled by the rosy spectacles of nostalgia, there's plenty to enjoy in that film. more ›

A year ago, we geeked out over the possibility that Google Maps would soon include its Street View feature in D.C. area maps. Google has indeed collected Street View imagery for Washington, DC, but still no launch date has been announced for the feature. more ›

For those of you who have never had the pleasure of being right up close at a U2 concert, let me divulge a spoiler: Bono — a.k.a. Paul Hewson, a.k.a. The Fly, a.k.a Mr. MacPhisto, champion of Africa and two-time Nobel Prize nominee, debt-relief crusader and F-bomb-dropping bane of the Federal Communications Commission, the big-brained, big-hearted, big-mouthed and wholly unembarrassable front man for The (all together now!) World’s Biggest Band — is a wee, short little dude. Five-seven, five-eight, tops. When he performs — and truly, no rock and roll frontman has ever looked more at ease serenading a stadium-load of air guitarists than this guy — he wears thick-soled boots that give him an extra inch-and-a-half on the vertical plane. Every little bit helps, right? more ›