“Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops” Konami Corporation PSP When your name’s Snake and you wear an eyepatch, megalomaniacal foes are never in short supply. After two forays into strategy card games and a “digital graphic novel,” “Metal Gear Solid” has returned to its roots on the PSP with “Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.” However, it sports some key differences from previous Metal Gear Solid games. Read more...

“Alpha Dog” Director Nick Cassavetes Universal Pictures Did you ever watch “America’s Most Wanted” and think to yourself, “I wonder if these dramatizations would be better with Justin Timberlake”? Read more...

From “Blade Runner” to Big Brother, bleak futures have been portrayed countless times. Yet two aspects set Alfonso Cuaron’s dystopia, “Children Of Men,” apart from so many others. Read more...

War films tend to suffer from an aura of banal sameness. They can all seem alike at times. And whenever one film comes along to shake things up a bit (for example, “Saving Private Ryan,” with its shaky cam and washed-out visuals), every subsequent output in the genre follows in its footsteps with near-religious fanaticism. Read more...

Hearing the voice of self-proclaimed “un-DJ” Girl Talk (real name: Gregg Gillis) discuss his views on the legitimacy of music sampling as a higher art form by using Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (The Whisper Song)” overlapped on top of a peppy techno beat may make one skeptical, and even more so when the song segues into the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” seconds later. Read more...

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to A&E’s annual prediction sesh, in which we crack open our fortune cookies and see what’s going to be in and out in 2007. Read more...

Who is Nikki S. Lee? The South Korean-born performance artist and 1999 graduate of New York University has become internationally known for her galleries of photographs which feature her under the guise of a variety of identities. Read more...