Oct 26th, 2009 · If you've ever dreamed of spinning records in front of a screaming crowd, here's your virtual chance. The new music video game DJ Hero lets gamers scratch and mix on a fake turntable while a funky DJ avatar struts and cuts onscreen.
Apr 3rd, 2009 · From Turkish baths to palatial museums, movie critic Bob Mondello scoured Istanbul in search of drama. He discovered that while lots of locales may look exotic in the movies, they're not always what they seem onscreen.
May 22nd, 2008 · A British journalist, an American nurse and a Chinese partisan join forces to protect 60 orphaned children in war-torn 1930s China. Roger Spottiswoode's movie is inspired by a true story — but itself turns out to be thoroughly uninspired.
Nov 16th, 2007 · Movie studios look to new and more sophisticated 3D technology to provide thrills. There are new opportunities with 3D such as having the audience feel the same claustrophobia of the onscreen character trapped in a dank dungeon.
Sep 15th, 2007 · Smell-O-Vision, a system that pumped scents into movie houses that matched actions onscreen, was largely abandoned after the late1950s. The Boston Children's Museum wants to revive Smell-O-Vision with showings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory this fall.
Jun 9th, 2006 · Our film critic reviews A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman's film adaptation of Garrison Keillor's long-running public radio show.
Feb 6th, 2006 · Sanaa Lathan talks about her new film, Something New, and parallels between her onscreen portrayal of a harried urban professional and her real life. Something New follows the story of a Lathan's character, an attorney, who starts an unlikely romance with a white landscape architect.
Oct 18th, 2005 · The film Innocent Voices tells the story of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. Co-writer Oscar Torres escaped to the United States from his native land and lived through the events dramatized onscreen.