Movie Review: Milk

Biopic about a gay icon plays things a little too straight.

Gus Van Sant's portrait of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk clunks along as the squarest movie he's ever made, a result of the director investing more emotion in the martyred idol than in the bleeding man.

Coachella '08 Reviewed, Day Three: Metric, I'm From Barcelona, Duffy, Stars, Sean Penn

It was a little bit '80s, with Sean Penn ranting and Stars nodding to Phil Collins. But Metric's Emily Haines had all the best punchlines.
Metric's Emily Haines / Photo by Lucy Hamblin

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