Bill Murray

The Top 10 Films of 2012

The end of cinema? Hardly.

In Hyde Park on Hudson, It's Patriotic to Pleasure a President

On His Majesty's secret service

Three Locks For Best Actor Already

That's what insiders are saying--the kind of insiders who are usually right sometimes. Oscar's Best Actor locks already seem to be: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln Duh. We knew this the second the movie was announced. Denzel Washington for Flight People are so happy he got a quality script agai ... More >>

Ben Affleck Is Back On Top

Ben Affleck was a Hollywood golden boy who got sucked into some crappy pictures as well as a destructively over-publicized relationship before settling into a simpler life and emerging as a fine director with films like Gone Baby Gone and The Town. And now he's getting Oscar buzz all over again. A ... More >>

The 14th Annual Del Close Marathon

MOONRISE BROOKLYN

Bill Murray leads the Poets House walk

Wes Anderson's Larger-Than-Life Moonrise Kingdom

One more time, but with feeling

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

Happy Groundhog Day! Here's All You Need to Know About Cooking the Critter (With a Recipe!)

La Belle Province / FlickrHello, spring? More like hello, dinner.​Happy Groundhog Day! Not only is today the day that inspired Bill Murray's second greatest film ever, it's the day we get to find out whether we're going to have six more weeks of winter or if it'll be an early spring. But the ... More >>

It's Groundhog Day! It's Groundhog Day! It's...

Yes, it is Groundhog Day again, which means that across the country, many small rodents are delivering their verdicts on whether we will have six more weeks of "winter." The most famous groundhog authority, Punxsutawney Phil, has seen his shadow and is reporting that we will indeed have six more w ... More >>

The 'Serious Burger' at Cheeburger Cheeburger: Taste Test and an SNL Video

​The abridged version of the chain, at Newark's Terminal A National burger chains are flying into town and running up their numbers so fast, we can't keep up with them. One of the latest to arrive - along with Smashburger, Fatburger (which tried twice in the last two decades, failed, and is ... More >>

Bill Murray Is Not Necessarily Loved By Everyone

A new book called Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies With John Waters by writer/producer/production manager Robert Maier offers proof of that. Maier remembers when Bill Murray came aboard as the person to sing the "love theme" of John Waters's 1981 Odorama epic Polyester. "John was livid," ... More >>

Q&A: Questlove on Winning Three Grammys, the Glory of Esperanza Spalding, and Having His Parties Closed Out By Bill Murray

Grammy fresh. Photo via @questlove​You'd think between the tapings of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, being shuttled from to gig to gig, and freaking out at Prince concerts, it'd be hard to pin down Questlove for 15 minutes, but it was surprising painless. We caught up with the Roots' drummer an ... More >>

Bill Murray Shoved a Stranger Over Football

​Legend has it that Bill Murray is a weirdo. In one version of the infamous, widespread Bill Murray story, a kid is in Manhattan's Union Square late one night when someone comes up behind him and covers his eyes. When he turns around to see who it is, he notices it's Murray, as in the famous a ... More >>

MAKE ME LAUGH

All the comedic greats came from somewhere

TEAM ZISSOU

Don the red cap in Red Hook

WHISKEY A GO-GO

Is it bad etiquette to get drunk at a store?

Regrets, I've Had a Few: A Hermit's Pre-Death Funeral in Get Low

FUNNY BUSINESS

Get ready to laugh around the clock

DUMPSTER DIVING

Park Avenue's trashy pool scene

SNL's Men Get Films Careers, But the Women Don't

​Why is it only the male stars of Saturday Night Live who end up with the big movie careers? Flip back through the years, and think about it: John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, and tons more e ... More >>

Video: Bill Murray, Reading Poetry to Construction Workers

​Here's a wonderful, pleasant way to start your morning: well-edited video of Bill Murray, reading poetry to the construction workers of Poets House, which, if you don't know (and many people don't!), is lower Manhattan's national poetry library. The video also has lovely music.

Six More Weeks of Winter, Says Rodent Oracle

​Punxsutawney Phil -- the groundhog who, like the Dalai Lama, is thought to be the incarnation of an ancient, mystical entity -- emerged in the Pennsylvania town for which he is named on the morning of the American Imbolc known to natives of the region as Groundhog Day and was seen to notice h ... More >>

FUNNY BUSINESS

Improv's finest bring you a nonstop marathon of laughs

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, get back!

COOL INTENTIONS

Jim Jarmusch shows you clips from his new sure-to-be-awesome film

SUNN O))), Boris, and Earth Soundtrack Jim Jarmusch's Newest, Limits of Control

The newest left-field, cool guy feathers in Jim Jarmusch's cap? SUNN O))), Boris, and Earth on the soundtrack to The Limits of Control, his new Bill Murray/Isaach De Bankolé/Gael García Bernal/Tilda Swinton-starring existential spy film, due in May. [Ideologic]

Mixtape Review for a More Perfect America: Young Dro's Black Boy White Boy

Doing his small part to form a more perfect post-racial America, next-gen Atlanta up-and-comer Young Dro is taking the fight to Cate Blanchett with his new mixtape Black Boy White Boy. The rapper's revolutionary philosophy of black dudes wearing scarves is set up nicely by the mixtape's cover: Dro ... More >>

Runnin' Scared Approves Bill Murray's Midnight Raids

NO SLOPPY SECOND

Chi-town comics are first-rate

IT’S FISCHER!

Catch Wes Anderson’s very best

Tabloid Divorce Court: The Murrays and the McGreeveys

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The Life Quixotic

Have son, will travel: Murray's sad-sack Don Juan stoically confronts the autumnal dead end

On Golden Palme

Historical Oversight

Desensitized to Cronenberg's 'Violence', jury anoints Dardennes over Jarmusch and von Trier

That Sinking Feeling

The old man and the sea: Bill Murray weathers a midlife crisis in a dawdling big-fish story

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The Tao of Bill

From wiseacre to wounded wise man: Murray as Bozo, bumbling dad, and bodhisattva

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365 Days Later

The Other of Invention

Lost in America

Bill Murray's Star Vehicle, Gus Van Sant's Double Comeback, and the Year of the Documentary

Music

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After Sunset

Coppola's Camera Karaokes Through Tokyo and Finds Bill Murray Singing Roxy Music

Secrete Agents

Dennis Lim's Top 10

Untouched by an Angel

Bachelor Father Knows Best

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Why the resistance to Cher's single? One insider told me, 'American radio doesn't go for older artists.' Perhaps they'd like some of her boyfriends.

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Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).