Director Spike Jonze shot into the mainstream with his first feature film, Being John Malkovich. Though the sleeper hit nabbed the director an Oscar nomination, it was not typical Hollywood fare. It is a quirky fantasy about a man who comes upon a room...

The Work of Director Spike Jonze Street 10/28 Palm, Special Interest, $19.99 DVD, Unrated, 400 min. Chances are the average music fan or pop culture product knows Spike Jonze by name, and can probably spit out a few of the...

As Bjork notes in a commentary here, "Spike's definitely slapstick"-which may be the key to Jonze's feature film success. (Cunningham's projects, including an adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer, have yet to emerge from development, and Gondry's Human Nature misfired in all directions.) An intuitive...

Speaking of steamy matters, hot lit chicks Jennifer Egan and Marisha Pessl wear something flimsy and mount Central Park Summer Stage to read to the squirrels and a mixed crowd of literary lasses (tea-length skirts, nude lip gloss, ballet flats and something crocheted on top),...

Darjeeling Is Limited There are good movies, bad movies, honorable failures, good movies that indifferent audiences turn into flops and bad movies that smart publicists and ham actors turn into hits with bookings on Jay Leno. I usually welcome them all. But if there is...