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...Anything can be art and anyone can do it,” claims George Maciunas, the founder of the Fluxus movement. The 1960s saw Maciunas filling Fluxboxes with games, ideas, and art; Nam June Paik forging robot sculptures out of television sets; and the likes of John Cage and Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HFA Remembers Fluxus | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...most anticipated movie event that doesn't end in a number, in which the hero will be played by Peter Cullen, a Canadian voice actor familiar to the teensiest fraction of moviegoers. With Steven Spielberg producing and Michael Bay directing this $150 million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots in disguise" sets your toes atappin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Boys Who Like Toys | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...college experience.”PIE IN THE SKYBesides making more movies, Poehler has many “bigger ultimate goals” for the future. “They involve world peace, stopping global warming, making sure that we all just start getting along, building a robot that can create food out of its stomach, finding a way for dogs and cats to get along, opening a UCB Theater on the moon, and building a rocket ship in my basement,” she says.And speaking of the future, what will happen to those outrageous figure skating costumes...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Blades’ Star Poehler Reveals Comedian Trash-Talking | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...rough, one gentle--must work together to have a future The family from Are We There Yet? moves to what seems like a perfect suburban house. WHAT'S IN IT FOR KIDS? The kids save the world by ... um, Mom, what's DNA? Cool inventions, a dinosaur, a cute robot, a toilet joke Will Ferrell--but kid-unfriendly, vulgar, vomiting Will Let's see: Do kids enjoy seeing heavy objects falling on body parts? WHAT'S IN IT FOR PARENTS? The fun of trying to explain the plot over and over Mildly amusing homages to other films Who doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Downtime: Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...screenplay with McCrudden, and his rugged portrayal projects authenticity. Johnson—known to most audiences as the Pink Power Ranger—pulls off a compelling portrayal of a wife struggling to support and raise her child alone (and she manages to do it without transforming into a robot!) If nothing else, “Islander” offers a glimpse of a world we lobster-eaters wouldn’t otherwise see. Eben describes the community best: “On an island we’re all related. Whether we like to think...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Islander | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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