Les Miserables

Streep And Depp Doing Into The Woods Film! Guess Who Else?

Once Les Miserables made tons of money, it was inevitable that the floodgates would be open for the filming of every musical ever made. (Can't wait to see movies of Carrie, Scandalous, and Nick and Nora. Kidding.) And so, Rob Marshall is directing a film of Sondheim's Into the Woods, and they're ge ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Hates Going To The Movies (And The Media, Of Course)

We have TriBeCa Film Festival. We have the Angelicka. We have countless movie premieres, movies being made here left and right, celebrity spottings and the like. New York City is a place made for the movies; it's basically a film mantra that you're either filming here or in L.A. And Mayor Bloomberg ... More >>

Identity Thief: Body Horror

Identity Thief's creators fear what audiences love about Melissa McCarthy

Fear a Steady Diet of Movies Like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Too much candy

The Nastiest Review Of Les Miserables Yet!

I really admired Les Miserables. No, it's not perfect--there are too many crying, singing closeups--but I still found it astonishingly done, the first great movie musical since Chicago. But as you know, it's been dividing people more than anything since Coke Zero. Here's what someone on the All Th ... More >>

Pazz & Jop: The Confounding, Inexplicable Splendor of Rapper Future

Space is the place

Broken City

The Dirtiest Joke On The Whole Golden Globes Telecast

No, it wasn't the not-coming out/coming-out speech, which did have some moving material in it. I'm talking about Sacha Baron Cohen's riff, which referenced Anne Hathaway's pooch-revealing wardrobe malfunction at the premiere of Les Miserables. That was a definite coming out, and caused many an eyeb ... More >>

The Most Love/Hate Film In Decades

Les Miserables has been drawing extreme reactions from people, from "I sobbed the whole time" to "I winced, then vomited, then ran for my life." That's actually good. Anything that polarizes people so strongly has obviously got something going on. In this week's column, I tell you what I think of ... More >>

Oscar Movie Guide: What's Worth Seeing, From "Pi" to "Zero"

For a grim slog, the Oscar movies are pretty fun

My Guide To This Year's Oscar Movies

The holiday film classics piled up last month--and when I say holiday films, I mean stuff about tsunamis, plane crashes, shipwrecks, and bin Laden. It's all pretty horrible--except that when quality films result, the ennobling glow can be felt all the way to the Academy Awards ceremony. So I've de ... More >>

Disabilities Will Permeate The Oscar Nominees

Get sick on screen, cough a little too hard, and you've got a nomination all locked up. Here are some of the frontrunners for nomination consideration, who will suddenly feel much better if they're announced among the chosen this Thursday. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone (above). The French favo ... More >>

Adam Lambert Slams Les Miserables

American Idol personality Adam Lambert feels the movie of Les Miserables is more than a near Mis. It made him crazy! Lambert tweeted: "Visually impressive with great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers. It's an opera. Hollywood's mov ... More >>

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2012: The Year in Review

From a deranged Dirty Harry to the rise of Honey Boo Boo, it was a long, strange, sad, and silly trip

My Top 10 Films of 2012

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Daringly

The Follies of 1832

The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

See the full 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

Get Ready For Some Really Loooong Movies

Got three hours to kill? Still have no power and feel anxious to spend long stretches of time anywhere where there's heat and light? Then you're gonna love this season's batch of Oscar-bait flicks. They're long. They're made by auteurs who treasure every moment of their own genius and can't wait ... More >>

My Oscar Predictions As Of This Moment!

Naturally, they might change--especially when I see every last film--but right now, this is what I'm predicting on goldderby.com (where they ask various commentators for their incredibly prescient forecasts and expect them to be accurate). SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1--Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 2--S ... More >>

Why The Live Singing In Les Miz? The Director Explains It

After the premiere of Les Miserables the other night, director Tom Hooper explained what he was after when he boldly had the actors sing live as they filmed. He said that watching movies where actors lipsynch has a "slightly distancing quality" and even a "falsity" to it, which he was anxious to av ... More >>

A Great Year For Makeup at the Movies

Last year was pretty decent, makeupwise, with Margaret Thatcher going against the apes for the Oscar, and winning paws down. But this year, movieland has come up with an even more exciting batch of blush jobs, the makeup artists going out of their way to use a full palette of cosmetics and prosthet ... More >>

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 >>

Get Ready For The Most Depressing Batch Of Films In History

Something must be in the air--like dire desperation or maybe economic collapse--because the slew of quality films coming your way seems to be drawing a lot from horrifying disasters, both real and imagined, as they go to a very dark place in your wallet. Yes, some of them are personal awakenings wi ... More >>

Watch Out, Les Miz! Here Are Movie Stars Who Sang Live

When archivist Mark Milano heard Anne Hathaway and her cohorts say in an interview that the upcoming Les Miserables film was the first time actors sang live while filming, he dug into his vaults to prove them wrong. Really wrong. The below compilation clip is an enchanting reminder of all the star ... More >>

Wuthering Heights: Black Like Me

Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Brontë braves lines of color

Here Are The Oscar Best Actress Front Runners

It's never too soon to start guessing Oscar nominations, so I've done some exhaustive research--like talking to one friend in the biz, as well as plumbing the depths of my own usually-semi-right instincts--and decided that the five nominees will probably come from these seven bigshots: Marion Coti ... More >>

The 2012 Best Picture Nominees Will Be...

Since Miss Cleo was driven out of business years ago, the Gold Derby site had to fall back on asking various pundits like myself to start predicting what will win the Oscar for Best Picture next year. Alas, I'm still working on last year's predictions. (The Artist doesn't have a chance. Trust me! I ... More >>

Hilariously Bitchy Tweets From Female Comics

I've scoured the twitter feeds to come up with today's most tart emissions from funny ladies with a delightful axe to grind: Kathy Griffin, responding to someone who tweeted, "Get some class. Ur mouth is like a sewer.": "Ahhh blow me. Love, KG"

Les Miz Trailer: Is Anne Hathaway Better Than Susan Boyle?

Les Miserables--based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that Andrew Lloyd Webber actually had nothing to do with--is coming to the screen in all its stirring pathos and musicality. And here comes the trailer, which consists of Anne Hathaway singing an anguished "I Dreamed A Dream," as we see brownish ... More >>

May Day! The Voice Staff's Live Coverage of Occupy Wall Street's M1NYC

Good morning, and welcome to the Village Voice's liveblog of May Day 2012, as the Occupy Wall Street movement calls for a "General Strike" and a day of protests around the city. Our reporters and photographers are fanned out across the boroughs. We'll be liveblogging their dispatches right here and ... More >>

Download: Bright Moments' Yacht Rock Gone Gypsy Punk Anthem "Tourists"

True to its name, Bright Moments is a big sunshiny explosion of optimism: joyous found sounds, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Beach Boys harmonies, anime keyboards and big explosions of billowing brass. It's the demented brainchild of New Yorker Kelly Pratt, a multi-instrumentalist who's played horns for B ... More >>

Rightbloggers Rush to Defend Mitt Romney -- The Corporate Raider, Not the Candidate

When last we left our heroes, the 2012 Republican Presidential challengers, they were inevitably folding to Mitt the Man Whose Turn It Is. Then Newt Gingrich -- or, excuse us, a Newt Gingrich Super-PAC to which he is not connected -- decided to go out swinging with a little film that portrayed Romne ... More >>

Q&A: Talibam! On Going To Bed And Discovering Atlantis, Meeting Macaulay Culkin, And Starting The Post-Goof Movement

Talibam! with Sam Kulik The ubiquitous brainiacs behind Brooklyn's maniacally creative and hilarious duo Talibam!--beardo keyboards squelcher Matt Mottel and bizarro drums wizard Kevin Shea--are airing out their gripes, sort of, as they chill in their Wall Street studio at the Swing Space, an under ... More >>

The Sublime Creations of Destroyer

On Dan Bejar's Kaputt, his leisure-free leisure-rock album

The Demons and Musashi Open the Lincoln Center Festival

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Eiji Yoshikawa hit the New York stage