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Why I Hate Movies And Will Never See One Again!

38 cinematic reasons why I dread the lights going down

My Final Oscar Nomination Predictions!

​The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>

Spielberg and Fincher: Taming Creatures

WWI gets Spielberg’d; Fincher’s new girl in town

Oscar Predictions: It's Never Too Early

​Just like it's already Christmas in certain department stores, the Oscar predix business happens to be in full swing, with goldderby.com asking us pundits for our premature (I mean extremely mature) guesses as to who will get nominated. Here are mine as of this very moment. Bear in mind tha ... More >>

Fight Club

Richard Ayoade, IT Boy

Melissa Leo Said What????

​The talented Melissa Leo is winning lots of awards for playing the big-haired, manipulative, and often destructive mother in The Fighter. The real-life woman she plays had a heart attack a few days ago, but she's rallying because she's that kind of survivor.

Year in Film: The 2010 Voice Film Critics' Poll

The results are in

According to The Social Network, You Are Definitely Not the Only Asshole on Facebook

The Best Picture Oscar Will Go to...

​Either The King's Speech or The Social Network. Duh. Neither has officially opened yet, but people are saying that The King's Speech, a Weinstein brothers historical epic with Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth, is a wow, while David Fincher's The Soci ... More >>

The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

New York Film Festival: The Hype and the Substance

This year's NYFF manages both. Plus: Our best of the fest

Cinema's Hottest New Trend: Movies About Websites!

​The only time people aren't online these days is when they're at a movie theater -- after I scream at them to turn off their BlackBerrys, that is -- but now they can get over their Webby withdrawal by watching movies about the Internet. It's the latest trend! I recently saw a Luke Wilson fl ... More >>

So: What's the First Professional Review of The Social Network (AKA The Facebook Movie) Say?

​Facebook just released their newest innovation that furthers the social network's reputation as a product meant to track your every move like the digital shock-collar we all know it is but have yet to fully come to terms with as (or have already given up on fighting). Which is also perfectly ... More >>

The New Spider Man: Andrew Garfield, Who You've Never Heard Of

​Important New York superhero Spider Man will no longer be portrayed in movies by Tobey Maguire, because Spider Man 2 was so goddamn amazing it just didn't really matter, is why. No Spider Man movie with Tobey Maguire in it was going to get any better. So now, they're restarting the franchise, ... More >>

Google Launching Facebook Killer "Google Me"; Facebook Movie Trailer Hits YouTube

​Maybe I'm just not up on the lingo of the tech world, but why is a new product always set up to "kill" an existing product? Aren't these unrealistically lofty expectations, especially when the thing you're trying to "kill" -- in this case Facebook -- has nearly half a billion users worldwide? ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part II!

8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

Perez Hilton Dishes on Anderson Cooper

Attention, bottom-feeders: This column ends with blind items.

The Ninth Annual Film Poll

Critics turn into optimists, pick WALL-E as year's best.

GOLDEN BOY

Film Society explores the curious David Fincher

Benjamin Button Features Pitt and Blanchett in Orgy of Excess

For those who did not get enough Forrest Gump . . .

Wanted: Irony-Free Escape-Fantasy

With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt

Nathan Lee's Top 10

J. Hoberman's Top 10 Films of 2007

The 2007 Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll: There Will Be Consensus

Sucker Edition

The good news for Zodiac fanatics is that the DVD version offers new angles on futility and frustration. The bad news is why.

Palm d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007

Everyone’s a Winner

Cannes jury spreads out awards, giving Romanian the big prize

Oh, The Humanity of a Heist

Noir screenwriter makes strong directorial debut; Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

To Catch a Predator

In his hunt for the Zodiac killer, David Fincher forgoes the personal for the process, and in the process Nathan Lee geeks out.

'Green Street Hooligans'

Full Mental Jacket: Traumatized Vet Seeks Better Tomorrow

Play It to the Bone

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

Crib Notes

Prisoners' Songs

Repeat Offenders

Driven to Perfection

Art & Industry

Cops and Squabblers

A Fight to the Finish

Lost Without a Map

A bunch of slugs

City Limits

21st-Century Boys

David Fincher stages a theater of war in ‘Fight Club’

Extreme Sport

An Interview with Thrill-Seeking Novelist Chuck Palahniuk

Film Previews

A rundown of the season's movies— handpicked for their potential wondrousness or probable woefulness.

The Good Fights

8MM

Bugging Out