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The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

See the full 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

My Oscar Predictions As Of This Moment!

Naturally, they might change--especially when I see every last film--but right now, this is what I'm predicting on goldderby.com (where they ask various commentators for their incredibly prescient forecasts and expect them to be accurate). SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1--Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 2--S ... More >>

Melissa Leo: "I Was Told I Was Too Old and Not Big Box Office!"

More great work from Melissa Leo, who still isn't getting the big trailer

TIFF: Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

Trouble With the Curve: Still Too Old After All These Years

Eastwood’s return is a decidedly slow-pitch affair

Why You Must See The Master!

(1) Because it's brave. Going against Scientology (and in fact anything that preaches a "Cause") is a bold move, though as the film continues to make lots of money, it will probably seem a little less brave. (2) Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman give a master class in screen acting. Th ... More >>

Scientology and The Master

Into the Woods: The Disenchanted Forest

This time, the Public does Sondheim in the Park

Into The Woods In Central Park: My Review

Into The Woods--the 1986 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine show about fairy tale characters coming together and learning lessons--is being done in the woods of Central Park in a gimmicky but vigorous production directed by Timothy Sheader with codirection by Liam Steel. The show has always basically be ... More >>

Happily Ever After?

Amy Adams stars in Into the Woods

Bring It On: The Musical! My Review

Four Tony winners have collaborated on a show that's so light it's almost as if Picasso got to work on an Etch-A-Sketch. It's a loose adaptation of the 2000 film Bring It On, the white school/black school cheerleading comedy, though the plot has been dramatically changed and the whole thing has bee ... More >>

The Best Actress In A Musical Tony Nominees Will Be...

I love predicting Tony award categories 10 whole months before they're announced because there's something so perverse about guessing who'll get the nominations before some of the shows have even started rehearsing! Even more deliciously, I usually get at least 60% right. So here are my predix f ... More >>

The Master Gets Its Scientology On in 2nd Trailer

The second trailer to Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film The Master was just released, and this time we get a look at Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams along with Joaquin Phoenix. We gave PTA credit for being wily with his first trailer -- for years, we've all been waiting to see how much The ... More >>

VIDEO: Dianetics Day 2012! See People Who Can't Wait to Go "Clear"!

Our tipsters continue to funnel us the best Scientology material at a rapid rate. May 9 was Dianetics Day -- 62 years since the day in 1950 when L. Ron Hubbard first published Scientology's Ur-text, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health -- and already we have in our hot little hands the vid ... More >>

Summer Theater Guide: Alan Cumming Prepares a Lincoln Center Macbeth

YE OLDE JAMBOREE

Shakespeare in the Park gets country

Meryl Streep In Into The Woods?

Not long ago, a British newspaper interview with Stephen Sondheim mentioned that Meryl Streep was a rumored possibility to portray the Witch in the revival of Steve's Into The Woods, playing the Delacorte this summer. No, not Miranda Priestly. Another witch. Well, Sondheim didn't confirm or deny t ... More >>

Mahnahmahmeh: Muppets Reboot Can't Quite Get Its Act Together

MASTER OF PUPPPETS

Remembering the genius of Jim Henson

Mexico City Cannibals Prowl for Snacks in We Are What We Are

Three's Company With James Franco?

​Ok, get this, kids. The worst sitcom ever--except for My Mother The Car--has become James Franco's obsession to the point where he's threatening to take it to the stage and/or big screen. You see, Franco just did a Three's Company-related art installation, and the original show's creators w ... More >>

Oscars Dish: Who'll Get Royally Shafted?

In: Portman and Franco. Out: Moore and Wahlberg.

The Fighter Feels Rigged

Reese Witherspoon Gets Peggy Lee Fever

​She won an Oscar for her performance as June Carter Cash in Walk The Line and now Reese Witherspoon is in negotiations to play sultry jazz singer Peggy Lee in a biopic done by Norah Ephron, who's fresh off doing Julia Child. Questions, questions.

Who's Your Favorite Funny Lady in Films?

​Today, that is. (Spare me votes for Carole Lombard). Your choices are:

Leap Year, Perfect for that Mother-Daughter Matinee

Anne Hathaway vs. Amy Adams

​Gosh, I hate to pit actors aganst each other, especially when show biz is so competitive to begin with and they probably have to grab scripts out of each others' hands with sharpened talons on a regular basis. But what the fuck: Anne Hathaway or Amy Adams. Which one is better, brighter, and ... More >>

In Praise of the Julia Half of Julie & Julia

Club Kids Take Over Dunkin' Donuts!

Cazwell's 20-minute bashes.

Bruni Picks His Top (New) Pizza Pies; Could An Aussie Be the One to Save Bluefin Tuna?

First Alan Richman listed his faves, then we did ours, and now Frank Bruni is getting in on the pizza judging action. Looking only at pizza places that have opened since 2004, he deems Motorino's Pugliese pie "a masterpiece," but "got almost no pleasure from the soggy pies at Keste." [NY Times] Mer ... More >>

Stiller's Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Sunshine Cleaning Has Makings of a Great Showtime Series

Alleged Leaker, Nate Silver, Carpetbagger, and Runnin' Scared Pick the Oscar Winners!

Yes, Carly Simon won an Oscar, but not for Costume Design. Photo by Alan Light. The Oscars are tomorrow night, and an alleged leak of the winners is making it more interesting than usual. The Academy has denounced the list as a "complete fraud." If so, it should be exposed tomorrow, though the ev ... More >>

Which Half of Brangelina is Getting Shafted by Oscar?

You read it here first! You'll be all chirpy and happy!

Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Costumes pass for plot in WWII update

Ellen Page's Sexuality! Jennifer Garner's Hairdo!

Writer's cramp? No, a nonstop stream of diary during the Oscars telecast.

A Heaping Pile of Salacious Blind Items!

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

The Best Original Song Oscar: Still Mattering, Against Odds

Oscar Predictions Filled With Greed and Vengeance!

From the seer, suckers: The nominees, plus trash talk about some non-nominees

What a Toad

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

'The Ex'

Heat Up the Frost

Choreographing the march of time as a slow freeze

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

The Oscars: A Return to Boring

Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

NY Mirror

Whispering Dixie: Quiet Revelations in a Reunion Drama

In This World

Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia