The show started 15 minutes late and ended 15 minutes early, but no one in the audience left without being moved.

The Strokes were one of the most anticipated headliners at this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival — and they fulfilled expectations and then some.

The Strokes played an energetic hour-long set that wowed the festival crowd.

Whether you have the rhythmic prowess of Michael Jackson or you dance with your cat when no one is watching, you’re bound to love “Just Dance 2,” released Oct. 12 for the Nintendo Wii.

“Just Dance 2” is the long-awaited sequel to “Just Dance,” the original video game to feature real dance moves to popular music tracks.

Before the “Just Dance” series revolutionized the genre, dance games were basically exercises set to music. You would stomp your feet or move your hands to watch an on-screen pattern.

“The Social Network” is a good movie that could have been a lot better.

Going into the movie I expected something earth-shattering because of the way it has been received by critics. Instead I was given something slightly above average.

This story of pretentious jerks that are in love with their own genius is worth watching, but just barely.

“The Social Network” is about Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder who nefariously stole the idea from his business partners.

Who would have guessed that the creator of gratuitously bloody movies like “300” and “Watchmen” could create an animated masterpiece about warrior owls?

That’s exactly what director Zack Snyder did in “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,” a flick that rivals “Avatar” in quality and “The Lion King” in heart.

Released into theaters Sept. 24, “Owls” is adapted from a series of novels by Kathryn Lasky.

The hero is Soren (voiced by Jim Sturgess), an adventurous young barn owl who is only just learning how to fly. He is enraptured by tales of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a band of winged warriors who are sworn to protect the innocent.

Powering on your Nintendo Wii is like hearing your favorite song on the radio: you smile stupidly, you wave your arms around, and you know all the words — or in this instance, the hand motions — by heart.

But sometimes the routine gets a little mundane. So the next time you fire up your system, give Super Smash Bros. Brawl a break and swing your cursor to the right, where you’ll find the Wii Shop Channel.

Florida-based alternative rock band Anberlin is back with yet another new release, “Dark is the Way: Light is a Place,” less than two years after their last studio album.

Complaints about Anberlin dramatically changing their sound won’t be heard. In what is a follow-up to a somewhat disappointing effort in “New Surrender,” Anberlin gets back to their old ebb and flow in their fifth studio release.

Three years after the mediocre “Minutes to Midnight” was released, California six-piece Linkin Park is back with something a little different for their fourth studio album.

“A Thousand Suns” does not play out like a 15-track CD, but more like a 50-minute rock opera of love, loss and salvation. The album was released Sept. 14.

The journey kicks off with “The Requiem,” a mostly-instrumental track that combines ghostly piano sequences and eerie chants of salvation to create a truly haunting icebreaker that sets the mood of the entire album in less than two minutes.

Three years since their last release, rock band Linkin Park is at it again with their fourth studio album, “A Thousand Suns.”

The band stated before its release that it is a concept album, focusing on the subject of nuclear war.

“A Thousand Suns” is meant for a continuous listening experience to encapsulate Linkin Park’s true vision.

While the album is successful in shrouding the listener in the midst of a nuclear war through music and sounds, it’s about the only thing that was done successfully.

Italians have a tradition of beautiful and cerebral films.

Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Conformist” is a film that is visually striking while teaching a lesson of morality and society at the same time.

It is a film in the vein of De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief.”

At the end of the film viewers feel they have learned a lesson while being entertained.

“The Conformist” was made in 1970 but is set in 1930s fascist Italy.

Its protagonist, Marcelo Clerici, is a government employee in the fascist regime who is charged with killing his mentor and friend from college.

The most recent Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez slasher-flick, “Machete,” opened in theaters Sept. 3. In comparison to the credibility and success of other Rodriguez films such as “Sin City” and “Kill Bill,” this creation is disastrous.

The lead role of “Machete,” an ex-agent out for blood, is played by Danny Trejo, who maintains the same rough appearance he has in every other film.

Being type cast has finally led Trejo to a starring role, yet the acting is almost as gruesome as the gory brawls.

Robert De Niro plays Senator McLaughlin, up for re-election on the platform of immigration reform with a spin. This is his funniest role since “Meet the Parents,” and he is the only cast member who shows any talent in the film.