Hollywood

A Boy, His Toy, and the History of Cinema in Hugo

Handicapping the Sure Failure of Rolling Stone's New Restaurant Venture

​Reviews of Rolling Stone: Drum King, the videogame brand extention undertaken over the summer by the once venerable rock mag, were not kind. I'm From Rolling Stone, the MTV-sponsored reality TV show, limped through ten episodes in the spring months of 2007, and was promptly cancelled, althoug ... More >>

'1962: New York Film Critics Circle' at BAMcinématek

Sure, there were missiles in Cuba. But what about the film critics' awards?

Electricity for All in Elia Kazan's Wild River

City boy–country girl sparks, and plenty of politics

Notes From The Toronto Film Festival

​The email scribblings of someone covering the Toronto Film Festival were somehow forwarded to me as if by magic--or maybe it's just more spam--and it's my journalistic duty to pass them on to you, by way of an insider's report card that's leakable to the entire world. And so, dear readers:

John Huston's Late-Career Hit, Fat City

The Top 10 Records Sold at Bleecker Street Records in the West Village

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that sold in the last week at a store near you. http://www.flickr.co ... More >>

R.I.P. DJ AM

​Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, was found dead in his home on Friday afternoon. The news first circulated through TMZ and Perez Hilton and--to the dread of his friends, his peers, and thousands of fans--the NYPD confirmed the rumor later that evening, announcing the DJ's death and its ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview

Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate

Obama-Joker-Socialist Thing Spreads on Web, Not So Much on Walls

​The liberal media et alia are still talking about that Obama-Joker-Socialist poster which was first described in April and has, at this writing, been shown in photos at two (2) locations (and at a KFC in Atlanta though, call us paranoid, it looks Photoshopped). Nonetheless it is described as ... More >>

Apatow and Sandler Confront Mortality in Funny People—Sort Of

Bollywood Takes L.A. in Kambakkht Ishq

Rare Rehearsal Footage of Judy Garland!

As the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion approaches on June 28, let's not forget that one of the subtexts in the air as that revolutionary moment in gay liberation took place was that the great diva Judy Garland had recently passed on, and the gays were understandably annoyed about it.

Free Will Astrology: May 13 through 19

This Week in the Voice

Photo by Star Foreman. You're going to love Zoe Kazan. She's Hollywood royalty (granddaughter of Elia Kazan). She's been on Broadway and in movies, one of which, The Exploding Girl, debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival. Melissa Anderson interviews her. You may also view Star Foreman's photo slidesh ... More >>

Just Say No To The Reader 2

The holocaust has been an even bigger trophy grabber than ever this past year, so you just know Hollywood will find a way to do yet more crazily inspiring stories about Nazis with disabilities. How long before we're treated to The Reader 2: This Time She's Blind? The heart-tugging sequel can have ... More >>

Scary, Fabulous Joan Crawford Immortalized One More Time

We love to make fun of Joan Crawford because she was such an image-obsessed diva and controversial mother--and that hair! But the self-made glamour goddess DOES fully deserves the glossy treatment she's getting in Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star, a lush new Rizzoli book by Peter Cowie, who concen ... More >>

Which Half of Brangelina is Getting Shafted by Oscar?

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

Catch Baby Doll with Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach

Plus Ken Jacobs retrospectives, Alexander Medvedkin revisited

This Week's Voice: The Killers, Disco Inferno, Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Terry Winters, and More

At Times Inspired, Otherwise Banal, Were the World Mine Takes on Shakespeare

Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey May Not Actually Be The Future of Storytelling

Ex Child Demon Plays Pat Nixon

The Dukes' Low-Payoff Losers Work the L.A. Nostalgia Circuit

Some Like It Tony Curtis!

The Conspiracy Begins This December?

The Original Scary Changeling, Not to Be Confused With Angelina Jolie's Scary Acting

Latest "Leave Sarah Alone!" Rant from WSJ

Performances That Should Have Been Nominated For an Oscar

Roadside Romeo

Ridley Scott's Body of Lies is the Post-9/11, Tech-Savvy Terror Thriller We Deserve

Lies we can believe in

Bush Bailout? Rightbloggers Say OK -- Fight Hackers, Sandra Bernhard Instead!

Wayne Wang's Immigrant-Experience Story A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Anthology Film Archives Revives the Public Mischief of Robert Downey Sr.

Which Hollywood Rejects Made The Worst Rejecting Decision?

Clip Job: 'Let's Buy New Jersey and Close It.'

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival Explores the Celluloid Boundary

Stage and screen wrestle it out at the Brick's new fest

The Political Is Personal at the Human Rights Watch Fest

Putting a human face on global atrocity

Celebrities: They Might Be Like Us

Wednesday

Mickey One at MOMA

Kicking off an ambitious five-month jazz series

Clip Job: I've Got a Crush on Shari Lewis

Lesbian Director Won't Say the L-Word!

Shutter

MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE in 'The ultimate re-vamping'

Barry Michael Cooper's New Jack Comeback

Let's Never Mention the Three 6 Mafia Reality Show Again

Inconvenient Truths

Things I Learned Watching Dreamgirls

Veteran Players, New Teams

Company Flow