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  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    Oscars Live Blog: Finally, Some Attention for Our Nation's Celebrities

    ​Tonight, we'll be covering the 84th Annual Academy Awards, live from a computer. Stay here on Runnin' Scared for exclusive insight and commentary from a Hollywood insider who has seen THREE movies this year (not including a two-part episode of The Mentalist that looked pretty big-budget). Who ... More >>

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    What a Production: Nanjing Massacre as Showstopper in Flowers of War

    ​Tonight, we'll be covering the 84th Annual Academy Awards, live from a computer. Stay here on Runnin' Scared for exclusive insight and commentary from a Hollywood insider who has seen THREE movies this year (not including a two-part episode of The Mentalist that looked pretty big-budget). Who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    "Occupy Wall Street" Exploitation Examined By Olbermann and I

    ​On last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith and I chewed over the weird way TV and movie cameras have been diving onto Occupy Wall Street, from the Real World casting notice looking for activists to the alleged Dark Knight Rises flirtation with marching extras.

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Who Should Play Bin Laden?

    ​You know, in the inevitable movie. Which is more than inevitable because Kathryn Bigelow had already started casting it before the guy was tossed dead into the water. So as long as the project has already been green-lighted, here are my top choices for the part:

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    The Fix is a Website About Addiction; Happy New York Times Paywall Day!

    ​First of all, if you click on this, you will have wasted one of your 20 monthly free New York Times articles on something about white male bloggers. That's because in addition to a new website about addiction from Radar founder Maer Roshan, which went up with little-to-no build-up, today is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2011

    Oscars 2011: Live Blogging the Awards Show

    Courtesy ABC​And now for the awards portion of the evening! Full disclosure: the three of us have seen only five of the Best Picture nominees. Not that it matters. So:

  • Film

    February 16, 2011

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

    Courtesy ABC​And now for the awards portion of the evening! Full disclosure: the three of us have seen only five of the Best Picture nominees. Not that it matters. So:

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    The Oscars Will Be More Boring Than Dirt

    ​Is there any living being alive -- even a slug -- who doesn't know by now that the same four people who've won every acting award in tarnation are going to win the Oscars too? Yes, as sure as silk, Colin Firth will be stoic, Natalie Portman will cry, Christian Bale will have bulging eyes, an ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2010
  • Film

    December 8, 2010

    The Fighter Feels Rigged

    The results are in

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Presenting: the Top 5 Mel Gibson Internet Creations

    ​Mel Gibson's recently leaked rants are gross and terrible, for sure. But they've also allowed the Internet to put its creative energies to good use -- right? Here are the top five instances of proverbial lemonade that the Internet has made out of Mel Gibson's racist lemons.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    What's Up With Airport Security?

    ​So you have to flush away half your toothpaste before boarding while also making sure to dramatically discard your highly dangerous bottle of water, but if you show up carrying a handful of "firecrackers," you're escorted right in with bells on?

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Tom Cruise Inspired American Psycho!

    ​So it turns out Christian Bale had a fabulous inspiration for his skin-crawlingly creepy character in the movie version of American Psycho--namely toothy married man Tom Cruise!

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    CMJ, Day Two: New York Says Hello--and Then Goodbye--to OJ da Juiceman

    "This guy's on the internet," says DJ Green Lantern, by way of introducing Atlanta's Pill--a curious diminution for a rapper whose best songs ("Trap Goin' Ham," or you know, "We Outside") are very much about being nowhere near anything like a computer. Anyway, it's not like being on the internet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson. Harlem, the world. Greg Tate. Michael Jackson. Bed-Stuy. Jean Grae. Michael Jackson. Gary, Indiana. Jessica Hopper. The Village Voice Michael Jackson Archives. We all know about the Albany Coup and how bad it makes everyone look. But who really benefited ... More >>

  • Film

    May 20, 2009
  • Columns

    February 11, 2009

    New Pool Party Brings Out The Cuties!

    And finding people who, surprisingly, aren't all wet.

  • Columns

    January 14, 2009

    Which Half of Brangelina is Getting Shafted by Oscar?

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

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    SEEING STARDUST

    A film that runs on excess

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Dark Knight Even More Cursed

    A film that runs on excess

  • Columns

    August 5, 2008

    Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    Daily Flogger 7/29/08: Cancers on the body politic

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Batmess! Badman? Christian Bale's Arrest!

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Somebody Bail out Christian Bale

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    Things I Learned Watching I'm Not There

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Film

    November 13, 2007

    Like a Complete Unknown: I'm Not There and the Changing Face of Bob Dylan on Film

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Film

    September 11, 2007

    So Close, and Yet So Far

    The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  • Film

    August 28, 2007

    Still Waiting for That Train

    James Mangold remakes a classic western for our ADD times

  • Film

    June 26, 2007

    Man Down

    Dramatizing an earlier doc, Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

  • Columns

    June 26, 2007

    Two Hot to Handle

    I talked to Dancy, but Christian bailed. Paris Hilton got out, too.

  • Film

    December 26, 2006

    Orgy of Sequels to Climax in 2007

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Film

    October 31, 2006

    'Harsh Times'

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Screens

    February 28, 2006

    A Whimsical Stand Against Corporate Animation

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Film

    December 13, 2005

    Sex and the Single Squaw

    Will the public get off, or just the studios?

  • Film

    June 7, 2005

    Cape and Scowl

    Batman and sobbin': Orphan grief and existential questions in a grim franchise retake

  • Film

    May 31, 2005

    King of the Castle

    In Hayao Miyazaki's latest delivery, dreams of destruction overcome defective dubbing

  • Film

    October 12, 2004

    Play It to the Bone

    Shadow of the thin man: Bale's method madness and goth-grunge ambience yield net loss

  • Columns

    September 21, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Shadow of the thin man: Bale's method madness and goth-grunge ambience yield net loss

  • Film

    January 27, 2004

    Feeding Frenzy

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • News

    December 23, 2003

    Michael Atkinson's Top Ten

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    December 3, 2002

    Film

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    July 16, 2002

    Where There's Smoke

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    August 14, 2001

    Love and Other Catastrophes

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    April 11, 2000

    Atrocity Exhibitions

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Columns

    September 7, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    September 7, 1999

    Domestic Troubles

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    May 11, 1999

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • Film

    April 6, 1999

    Metroland

    Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    Velvet Crush

    Christian Bale

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