Cinefamily’s Comedy Death-Ray has a pleasant surprise for you for the month of March. The oh-so-awkwardly-lovable comedy actor, Michael Cera, who has put him at the top of the nerdy girl’s crushes list has marked his territory from films such as Superbad, Juno and Youth in Revolt. So in which film do we get to watch Cera’s dorky smile on the big screen? The mayhem-packed, filthy-mouthed, colossal car-chase-laden proto-buddy comedy, Freebie and The Bean. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a ‘70s film starring James Caan and Alan Arkin. Caan and Arkin play two racist, homophobic and misogynist San Francisco supercops. These two go →

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Music Opinion

In the last days of Jay Reatard’s life, there were no signs of impending self-destruction. The 29-year-old garage and punk rock musician seemed to be picking up his life, having recently bought a new home in Tennessee and released a full-length record on New York’s Matador Records. His last Tweets contained little of the vitriol he frequently leveled at antagonists →

Mosley Tribes is working on something quite interesting. Here’s a teaser.

The collaboration One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels is the fruit of a long-time musical appreciation between Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova. Featuring four new songs in addition to six from the original 2004 Crank! Records release, One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels is less of a split and more of a bona fide collaboration. →

Genre Hound
Film Opinion

The genre of war film has been sorely lacking in recent years. Rarely do independent films rise to the occasion of rivaling classic studio releases in the war genre. Films like The Best Years of Our Lives, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, The Dirty Dozen and Bridge on the River Kwai have traditionally featured big stars and big budgets. 2009 marks a year when two independent studio-based films,  up for Best Picture, represent polar opposites of the spectrum regarding this specific genre →

2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival
The Gorge Amphitheatre – George, WA
5/29 to 5/31/10

Join the annual pilgrimage to beautiful Gorge Amphitheater in Washington for beautiful sights of the Columbia River and northwestern vistas. This year’s Sasquatch! festival lineup is packed with the old and new, featuring Pavement, My Morning Jacket, Massive Attack, Vampire Weekend and more. The full lineup after the jump. →

Angry Black Snake: Photographs by Michael Corridore
Aperture Gallery – New York, NY
3/11/10

Aperture presents an exhibition featuring the work of Australian photographer Michael Corridore, winner of the 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize, at Aperture Foundation. Part of a new intiative, these prints are available for sale, with the proceeds benefiting both the artist and the Aperture Foundation Emerging Artist Fund. →

François Truffaut’s Small Change
The Cinefamily – Los Angeles, CA
3/21/10

One of François Truffaut’s most endearing labors of love, Small Change is one of those rare films that strikes dead the cynicism in any hardened heart. Filmed entirely in Thiers, a small town in the French countryside, the film presents an interconnected series of vignettes featuring one of the most vibrant child casts ever gathered →

Scion is bringing it this year. In collaboration with XLR8R, Scion and XLR8R are proud to introduce the City Guide application for the Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid. XLR8R’s picks for the best music, food, shops, galleries and more in top cities across the U.S. What can phones NOT do these days? Just watch, there’ll be applications on our phone sooner or later that will automatically let our phones drive our cars for us and do our daily chores. City Guide is kind of like Bing or Yelp! for your phone, but better because of it connects you to the hottest joints around. Curious? Check it out for yourself, you can install the City Guide application now on their website.