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Venice Update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and More

More Art, Less Matter

NewFest prizes representation to a fault

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

James Franco discusses growing up in Silicon Valley

Riff Raff+Heems

Seth Rogen's This Is the End: The Apocalypse With Dick Jokes

James Franco Used To Get Mad At Girls For Getting Fingered By Other Boys

James Franco the film star also turns out to be a pretty good film critic, suggesting that the old adage should be amended to "Those who can, teach." For Vice, Franco took a look at The Great Gatsby and decided it was an engaging adaptation and he didn't even mind the 3D. That's good because a majo ... More >>

Five Amazing, Ridiculous Soap Opera Plots

Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

The Spring Breakers director explains it all

Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

If you think Oz The Great and Powerful is a scandal, wait till you see James Franco in Spring Breakers, in which he's Alien, a cornrowed, silver-toothed rapper/dealer who watches Scarface on heavy rotation, goes down on guns on command, and has a lovely artistic side to match his psychotic one. In ... More >>

James Franco's Director Has No Regrets

As you know, this week's column is a wildly informative tete-a-tete with Harmony Korine, the 40-year-old provocateur whose latest act of outrage is Spring Breakers, in which James Franco takes some vacationing babes on an immorality spree. The movie's a big hit and has gotten some raves, so I aske ... More >>

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers Are Girls Gone Godard

A thrilling corruption of the Disney-princess set

The Movie With The Most Ex-TV Stars

The way to make it in music these days is to play cruise ships and theme parks, but if you want to be a movie star, break out on TV first. Oz The Great and Powerful--opening today--features no fewer than four major film folk who started on the small screen.

If Only Oz the Great and Powerful Had A Wizard

Sorry James Franco, this Oz is neither great nor powerful

James Franco's Brother Is A Warm Body: Photos!

Dave Franco is the younger and shorter brother of James Franco, and he's every bit as adorbs. The costar of Warm Bodies and many other movies has a warm face too. Check it out.

A Scene From James Franco's Newest Gay Sex Film

I told you about Interior. Leather Bar., the short Sundance Film Festival attraction--co-directed by and costarring James Franco--in which lost footage from the controversial 1980 film Cruising is reimagined. Well, Franco delivers again. After observing some light bondage and light moaning, he--pl ... More >>

James Franco Reimagines The Controversial Gay Movie Cruising

Here's Leonard Maltin's description of the 1980 William Friedkin film Cruising, starring Al Pacino. "Cop Pacino goes underground to ferret out bloody killer of homosexuals in this distasteful, badly scripted film. Gay world presented as sick, degrading, and ritualistic. Filmed on authentic N.Y.C. l ... More >>

GREAT ESCAPE

Let the West African Griot Summit take you away

James Franco Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento Charlotte Gainsbourg François Cluzet : Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival

This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Dis ... More >>

The Five Worst Types Of Behavior At A Sexual Hookup

Let's start at the very beginning, even before all the huffing and puffing takes place: *Make your profile reasonably truthful. Don't present yourself as basically James Franco when you're really James Holmes. The truth will come out eventually--even if the lights are low. Remember, they can fe ... More >>

James Franco Is Working On A Whole New "Homo-Sex-Art Film"

The gayest straight man in history--or maybe the straightest gay man--James Franco has a delightful taste for the homo-sexy-arty. There was his short film The Feast of Stephen, a controversial melange of gang banging and desire that was a far cry from the typical student project, thank you. Let's ... More >>

Franco Express

The actor/writer/artist shows off his latest book

Film Classics I Don't Want To See In 3D

Disney has learned that if you bring back a classic cartoon in 3-D, you make many more dimensions of moola. But I pray the same trend doesn't hit some other types of screen gems because in my lifetime, I absolutely never want to see the following: *Gandhi in 3-D Thrill to Mahatma's protruding ri ... More >>

James Franco's Bare Ass!

This is in the newest Flaunt magazine. If you've got it, flaunt it. And baby, James Franco has got it. I could look at this for, I don't know, 127 hours.

James Franco, on Sale for Eight Grand

Who can resist?​Well, this is not the real James Franco, but this version of James Franco can live on forever. For a measly $8,000, original photographs taken by the lovable Jack-of-all-trades can be yours when they go on sale next week at the RxArt Pop-Up Shop. The nonprofit, which places f ... More >>

The Best Male Hustlers In Movies: A Montage

Tony Ward, Hustler White​It's the guys' turn. These are the studs who sold it to their audience as persuasively as they did to their screen clients. Get out your PayPal accounts.

Kid Cudi

James Franco As John "Junior" Gotti?

​It could happen, even though John"Junior" Gotti himself doesn't know anything about Franco! According to the New York Post, a movie is being readied for 2013, with John Travolta as Gotti Sr., and director Nick Cassavetes apparently wants Franco for the offspring. (Well, after hosting the O ... More >>

Academy Member Admits Franco and Hathaway Were Bad Oscar Hosts

​ In a very ungracious move, a high-ranking member of the Academy of blah blah has given an interview saying that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were terrible choices as Oscar hosts. Let me add to the ungraciousness by saying "Hallelujah!" The Academy member cites the two comely stars' lack ... More >>

Worst Oscars Ever!

Or at least since the Rob Lowe/Snow White one. Here's why: *ZERO suspense. Any random person on the street has known the winners for months. *The tug between "young and hip personalities" and ancient film references was as schizo as Cate Blanchett's dress. *The acceptance speeches were either da ... More >>

Three's Company With James Franco?

​Ok, get this, kids. The worst sitcom ever--except for My Mother The Car--has become James Franco's obsession to the point where he's threatening to take it to the stage and/or big screen. You see, Franco just did a Three's Company-related art installation, and the original show's creators w ... More >>

Nicole Kidman and James Franco Together: My Thoughts

​It was announced the other day that James Franco will join Nicole Kidman this fall in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, about a gigolo's attempt to relaunch his dreams via an aging movie star.

Ryan Reynolds Is The Top Gay Male Fantasy Hookup!

​If not Scarlett Johansson's anymore. This revelation has emerged from Out's sex survey, which found that Ryan's abs are what gays most want to caress during their fantasy leisure time. The runners-up are the following hotties:

James Franco: "Maybe I'm Just Gay"

​Is he the world's most gay-friendly straight man or the world's most straight-friendly gay man? Either way, James Franco is going to keep things murky just to drive us cuckoo-crazy over it. Says ew.com, "Unlike the loud denials from some stars and even louder silences from others, the respo ... More >>

Anne Hathaway and James Franco? Here Are 5 Pairs Better Suited to Host the Oscars.

via NY Daily News​Today, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were named the hosts of this year's Academy Awards. The Daily News reports that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer (the producers of the Oscars) said, "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons -- fresh, exc ... More >>

Heaven Is Full of Young Adults

According to Colton Burpo, who had a near-death experience as a four-year-old but lived to write a book about it with his dad (Heaven Is for Real, Christmas-list it!): There are no old people in heaven. If you make it up there, you get the Benjamin Button treatment. Also, as he explains in this Fox ... More >>

James Franco's New Film Is Not for the Squeamish

​In Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, James Franco plays the real-life adventurer who got his arm pinned by a boulder and spent six days alone in the wilderness trying to survive until he finally cut his arm off and escaped. I'm not sure if this will be a big date movie, especially since at the screen ... More >>

James Franco, Out on a Limb, in 127 Hours

TEACHER’S PET

Can Jame Franco write, too?

Howl Should Have Been Better

​I thought James Franco would be the problem with Howl, the new movie about the Allen Ginsberg poem's place in the history of obscenity and art. After all, when you think of Ginsberg, you don't exactly picture the hottest man on earth, a sort of nouvelle James Dean with moist eyes and pouty l ... More >>

Can Julia Roberts Score a Comeback?

​She reportedly turned down The Blind Side and The Proposal, two smashes that ended up making Sandra Bullock the hottest property in Hollywood except for the sex rehab center where her husband ended up. But now Julia Roberts has said yes to what seems like a sure thing: Eat Pray Love After ... More >>

James Franco Exhibit at Clocktower Gallery Leaves Us Thinking, "What Can't This Guy Do?"

​We came to know him as an actor (Milk, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, and soon, Eat, Pray, Love), then, as a brainy student (New York University, Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale, and the Rhode Island School of Design). Now he's created his first solo art exhibit, The Dangerous Book Four Boys ... More >>

How Much Do Reality Stars Get in Reality?

​CLICK HERE for my column telling exactly how much the stars of a certain gay reality show are getting paid for the whole season. It might make you rethink your dreams of stardom.

Let's Cast The Miss Saigon Movie

​So producer Paula Wagner is starting to prepare the inevitable movie of the Broadway smash Miss Saigon--the most popular bunch of wet Saigon noodles in history--and Precious director Lee Daniels reportedly might direct.

THE HIGH LIFE

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The Gay-Friendliest Actor On the Planet

Remember the old days, when actors would studiously avoid gay roles or projects because of what creepy people out there might think? Well, sexuality pioneers like James Franco have been making that kind of career queasiness as obsolete as separate restrooms for gays. In his already impressive care ... More >>

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Week in Review: You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!

Rebecca SmeyneStill so mad I missed this... This will seem strange, but the Oscars were not even a week ago. Not that they were all that memorable--at this point, we only retain a foggy recollection, something about a Beck song and James Franco recommending a certain book on the red carpet... To b ... More >>

Tatum O'Neal's and Seth Rogen's Drug Controversies

'Flyboys'

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