"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" took the lead as holiday weekend US crowds packed theatres to see a flurry of new movies, sending box office earnings soaring, Exhibitor Relations said Saturday. In its opening weekend, "Mall Cop" star Kevin James gets big laughs taking his job as a mall security guard too seriously, earning 33.8 million dollars. Trailing at number ...

Far be it from us to question the infinite wisdom of the people in charge over at Fox Searchlight--after all, by this time next week, the studio will have its fourth best picture nominee in the last five years--but it seems like they are royally screwing up the release of Slumdog Millionaire. Fresh off a Golden Globe win, and ...

CONCERTS If you haven’t heard, My Bloody Valentine are touring again—for the first time in 16 years. It’s nearly impossible to over-state the influence of this London-by-way-of-Ireland quartet on the entirety of independent music. Kevin Shields’ woozy guitar sound on the band’s 1991 album Loveless hangs over every skinny-jean twenty-something with a six-string from Williamsburg ...

Seventeen years and hundreds of thousands of pounds later, Kevin Shields is again working on a My Bloody Valentine album. Shields confirmed the rumours at the My Bloody Valentine-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival this weekend, taking his earplugs out for long enough to talk to the New York Times. He will be returning to songs started over a decade ...