7p FREE! (+ Kronenberg 1664 Beer 7-9p) @ - Charlotte Gainsbourg 5:55 Record Release Party music by DJ Melody Nelson of Calling All Kids, KEVR's La Decadanse and copies of 5:55 given away throughout the night...

* RATING: PG-13 for brief graphic nudity. * RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes; in English and Italian with subtitles. * BOTTOM LINE: A beautiful but static depiction of an Italian family's experience coming to America...

When I'm sitting in the hotel sipping a coffee and about to bite into a yummy French cake, he almost takes my appetite away as he comes and sits opposite me, long before our interview is due to start...

Because of my frequent travel, it's been awhile since I've done one of these posts...

A strikingly shot tale of Sicilian villagers seeking a better life in America, "Golden Door" is so minimalist, it's practically a silent film...

Young Michael Jackson, huh? Not quite. "Because of You" goes strong for several tracks before it thuds into cocky sex talk and tuneless ex-girl soliloquies. On the upside, Jay-Z delivers a 32-second rhyme on "Crazy," a catchy infatuation tune...

tag it! Written by Boyd van Hoeij For his third feature , Italian director Emanuele Crialese works with much the same configuration as his previous , only substituting a delirious Valeria Golino for a reigned-in Charlotte Gainsbourgh...

Good intentions, engaging acting and surrealistic flourishes may make for an interesting film, but not necessarily a memorable one...

Hot off the interweb presses: Tony Kushner Writing About The Homos Again! The master himself, via : I'm also working on a big, new gay play. It s been a long time since I ve written about gay issues...