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With a dream cast that includes Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, and Mandy Moore, “American Dreamz” promises to be a successful notch in the career of up-and-coming writer/director Paul Weitz. With his brother Chris, he made his first mark in Hollywood with the smash teen comedy “American Pie.” He has also written and directed “About a Boy” (2002) and “In Good Company” (2004). “American Dreamz” is another comedy that focuses its plotline...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creator Learned to Love Pop 'Dreamz' | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...thinking behind the 10 songs on Roberts' latest release, Chemical City, out on Tuesday, is urban decay. If that sounds heavy, fear not: the CD features much of the cool, '70s-style guitar work fans will remember from Roberts' last album and the smash single of 2002, Brother Down. Chemical City is great summer music: catchy, energetic, never abrasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the City of the Mind | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

Most notably, they produced Daddy Yankee’s smash single “Gasolina,” which brought reggaeton to MTV in 2004. American listeners who couldn’t quite catch Yankee’s rapid-fire Spanish lyrics were mesmerized by Luny Tunes’ weightlessly hammering synthesizer beat...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cooking with 'Gasolina' | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: The Da Vinci Code | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...genre, which had been a B-movie fad in the 50s. Back then, the kids who gorged on s-f were a Saturday matinee minority. Star Wars arrived just as teen culture was taking over movies. Lucas? film proved that a movie could be a smash by creating a textural density that lured a part of the audience back through the wickets a dozen times. This wasn?t your uncle?s, and aunt?s, hit movie; but if they didn?t get it, who cared? The kids (mostly boys) were pouring all their disposable income into return visits. Thus Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

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