Once (directed by John Carney) Have you ever had a certain beloved record so often on repeat that you start to think of it as the soundtrack to your life? That magical connection between music, emotion and experience is at the heart of the new musical Once and it makes for a truly unique movie. A vacuum cleaner repairman by day and a Dublin street busker by night, "The Guy" (Glen Hansard) is obviously nursing......

This weekend at the movies means a bunch of overblown new releases. Clerks II is out this weekend and if Kevin Smith didn't think he was the coolest before, he does now that Joel Siegel's walked out of one of his press screenings. You can read about the whole back and forth then decide if you too will be more offended by some reference to bestiality or that Jay and Silent Bob still have cultural......

In Mini's First Time, a new film starring Nikki Reed, Alec Baldwin, Carrie-Anne Moss and Luke Wilson, a precocious high school girl with money to burn and a deep resentment towards her absent mother, lives to have new firsts. Whether it's the first time she acts as a call girl and seduces her stepdad or the first time she orders a menagerie of circus animals on Mom's credit card, Mini lives for the new. It's......

Last summer, audiences fell hard for Owen Wilson's aging frat boy with a heart of gold routine in The Wedding Crashers. This weekend, he brings his lunkhead prat falls to the comedy You, Me and Dupree with co-stars Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas. From the previews it looks like most of the humor is scatological in nature but do you really need anything more complex in an A/C-tastic cineplex? Another movie up that......

Gothamist was a bit underwhelmed by this year's Golden Globe nominees, and we were thinking of not liveblogging. But, gosh darn it as we watched the E! preshow and saw the starlets sparkle their way down the red carpet, we realize it was hopeless, so here we are. Let it be known that: - Keira Knightley looks gorgeous in her white Valentino - and there's something surprisingly youthful about the dress, even though there's that......

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“Harvard University is one of the finest in the land. [Your] exuberance exudes a confident confidence of a bygone era" - Will Ferrell as George W. Bush at Harvard's Class Day Gothamist is intrigued by Will Ferrell's role as Class Day Speaker for Harvard yesterday. While he's undeniably tearless when it comes to getting the laugh, is it weird to have someone so unrelated to the school even though cooler than anyone else on......