Ben Stiller

In Defense of the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards

This Sunday is the 30th MTV Video Music Awards. The show's come a long way from the days of Bette Midler and basic-cable bedlam--it's one of the most influential award shows on television. Youth driven channel that it is, MTV itself seldom looks back at yesterday in favor of focusing on the future, ... More >>

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

The Watch

The Challenges Facing Ben Stiller's The Watch

I haven't seen it yet, but the film has faced a couple of challenges--more than your average summer comedy. First, the title was changed from Neighborhood Watch to The Watch after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. Obviously this is a comedy about su ... More >>

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

This third installment of the billion-dollar animated franchise contains as much cinematic confection as an 85-minute movie can bear.

Daniel Radcliffe Snubbed By Tony Awards!

​Last year, the Tony awards fawned over Hollywood types, and a lot of died-in-the-wool theater people didn't have much of a chance against them. Well, this time the nominating committee obviously listened to the criticism about all that and swung the curve back to the real theater stars. (He ... More >>

The House of Blue Leaves Visits Unsunnyside, Queens

David Cromer helms a subdued version of John Guare

Ben Stiller On Broadway: My Review

​Not since my last date with a sadomasochist have I been so desperate to leave a show at intermission, only to cheer so loudly at the very end. Yes, the David Cromer-directed revival of John Guare's 1966 black comedy The House of Blue Leaves is that kind of schizo experience. For the absurdi ... More >>

Comics Get Seriously Dramatic This Season

​Hey, Broadway lovers, brace yourselves for the serious thesping gifts of: Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Ben Stiller in The House of Blue Leaves Chris Rock in The Motherf**ker With The Hat

Little Fockers and the Franchise of Diminishing Returns

Stiller and Meara Discuss Lady Gaga

​Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara are the comic legends who in the 1960s defined sardonically hilarious husband-and-wife comedy banter, like a more realistic Sonny and Cher. And they're better at it than ever!

OFF THE AIR

Check out the TV rejects of Conan, Ben Stiller, and Judd Apatow

Who's The Funniest Male Comic in Films Today?

NBC​I'll get to the ladies later. But which goofy male refugee from TV does the suckerfish faces and pants-dropping tricks that make you smile the hardest? *Steve Carell. He does a mean deadpan and is refreshingly willing to play douches. *Ben Stiller. I'm guessing his recent venture into r ... More >>

Hollywood Celebs Tell Japan to Stop Killing Their Friend the Dolphin

"Thank you, Woody."​The makers of the documentary film The Cove, which won an Academy Award, have now released a PSA starring such Hollywood celebrities as Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Woody Harrelson, and James Gandolfini. In English with Japanese subtitles, the PSA is meant to enlighten pe ... More >>

Noah Baumbach Heads to L.A. for Greenberg

Go west, middle-aged man!

Free Will Astrology: July 15 through 21

This Week in the Voice

Maybe you've heard of "snowflake babies" but never really known what they were. They're not really babies -- just frozen embryos about the size of a comma. But because they can be implanted in women and gestated into children, conservative Christians say the frosted 'flakes are people. And they're r ... More >>

Jonathan Richman+Vic Chesnutt

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

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Funniest of '08?

Perhaps, if you don't mind monkeying around

Blind Items about Heath Ledger and Maybe Madonna!

I told you so.

Tropic Thunder: A Consummate Movie-Biz Parody

Stiller's satire is way past its expiration date

Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

Bobby and Peter Farrelly's The Heartbreak Kid

'Night at the Museum'

'A Cantor's Tale'

Extra-Ordinary Rendition

New HBO comedy confirms there are no small parts—nor actors wih small egos

The No-Commitments

Frat-Packers Vaughn and Wilson look for booty, find adulthood in hollow but charming comedy

Escape From Zoo York

The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie

Misuses of Enchantment

Bad-boy playwrights McDonagh and LaBute dish it out, and critics can't get enough

By way of an 'unreliable narrator,' LaBute builds an unconvincing play

The Parent Trap 2: Cultures Clash as Focker Wedding Nears

Film

Spray It Forward: Green-Eyed Loser Misses Shitty Opportunity

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

They Love the '70s

Don't give up on them baby: Stiller and Wilson resurrect ambiguously gay supercop duo

How'm I Gonna See You Now

Only rainy-day women bleed on the Detroit Dylan's tracks

This Charmless Man

Seinfeld without Seinfeld? The humor may be surlier but it's just as annoyingly addictive

Courtship as Obstacle Course: Ben Stiller Flirts With Disaster Again

Film

Dedicated Followers of Fashion

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Show Me Love

The Good Fights

Forces of Nature

NY Mirror

Songs of Myself

Slippery Creatures

Hey There Little JoJo