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Charlize Theron: "I'm A Director Slut!"

I just came from a special screening of Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody, in which Oscar winner Charlize Theron plays a fiction writer who becomes trapped in a delusion, staking out her high school boyfriend and desperately trying to steal him away from his wife and baby. After the movie, Charli ... More >>

You Cannot Send Shit Through the Internet, and Other Life Lessons from Critic Dave Kehr

I just came from a special screening of Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody, in which Oscar winner Charlize Theron plays a fiction writer who becomes trapped in a delusion, staking out her high school boyfriend and desperately trying to steal him away from his wife and baby. After the movie, Charli ... More >>

The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Razzie Award "Winners"

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Angelina Jolie in a Michael Bay production. ​In the 30 years since MTV first hit the air, the music video has proven itself as a medium able to collapse high and low culture—or, ... More >>

Trigun: Badlands Rumble

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Angelina Jolie in a Michael Bay production. ​In the 30 years since MTV first hit the air, the music video has proven itself as a medium able to collapse high and low culture—or, ... More >>

Destroying Chicago and Our Brain Cells: Transformers is Back

Michael Bay shoots the moon

This Week In the Voice: Real Men Get Their Facts Straight

​This week in the Village Voice, out today: Martin Cizmar, Ellis Conklin, and Kristen Hinman explore the origins of a statistic about underaged sex-trafficking, slam Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's new ad campaign, and shine a light on the celebrity philanthropy industry in their feature "Real ... More >>

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

​This week in the Village Voice, out today: Martin Cizmar, Ellis Conklin, and Kristen Hinman explore the origins of a statistic about underaged sex-trafficking, slam Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's new ad campaign, and shine a light on the celebrity philanthropy industry in their feature "Real ... More >>

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Cam'ron and Vado Engage In Some Study-Hall Slumming On "Gunz N' Butta"

​Here's what's on the table with Gunz N' Butta, the new mixtape from Cam'ron and Vado: Cam'ron, six years removed from his last best shot at stardom, smirking and plucking the lowest hanging lyrical fruit available. His latest protégé, a scrawny, slightly bummy-looking dude with an unfortuna ... More >>

Attack of the Shaky-Cams in Battle: Los Angeles

​Here's what's on the table with Gunz N' Butta, the new mixtape from Cam'ron and Vado: Cam'ron, six years removed from his last best shot at stardom, smirking and plucking the lowest hanging lyrical fruit available. His latest protégé, a scrawny, slightly bummy-looking dude with an unfortuna ... More >>

Getting America Back on Track in Unstoppable

​Here's what's on the table with Gunz N' Butta, the new mixtape from Cam'ron and Vado: Cam'ron, six years removed from his last best shot at stardom, smirking and plucking the lowest hanging lyrical fruit available. His latest protégé, a scrawny, slightly bummy-looking dude with an unfortuna ... More >>

Tuesday Afternoon Explosions: Things Blowing Up in East Village and Park Slope

​Another Tuesday afternoon, another set of arbitrary, terrifying, and dangerous explosions in New York City to reaffirm that you basically live in a Michael Bay movie waiting to happen here in the five boroughs. Today? The East Village and Park Slope get hit.

The Bieber Bowl: The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards Live Blog

Just how awkward will the awkwardly staged moment between Kanye West and Taylor Swift be? Will Eminem deign to smile? Which uncomfortable pop star will B.o.B choose to bring up on stage with him? And how will your hosts, Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal and eMusic's Sean Fennessey, make it to midnight withou ... More >>

This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

It's a Small, Small World

Disney and Bruckheimer, blockbuster bros, rewrite history

Mono

Disney and Bruckheimer, blockbuster bros, rewrite history

Megan Fox Claims She Wasn't Fired From Transformers

​The living inflatable doll is insisting she dropped her option on the franchise, not director Michael Bay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Nikki Finke swears it was Bay who popped Fox's balloons and sent her flying, and this might be poetic considering foxy Fox once compared him to Hitler (and not fav ... More >>

Migrating Forms and the Search for Meaning

All avant-garde all the time at Anthology

Elm Street Remake Is No Dream

Why won't you DIE?

Gobot Cosplay & Those Sad Homemade Cabbage Patch Kids : Studies in Crap on the '80s Most Disappointing Toys

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1 ... More >>

The Mixed Bag of 100-Years-Young Akira Kurosawa, at Film Forum

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1 ... More >>

Viggo Mortensen's The Road Takes Path of Least Resistance

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1 ... More >>

If Queen Latifah Married Samantha Bee...

​...she'd be Queen Bee! Yes, it's time for THAT fun little parlor game again, the one where you marry off two celebs that would make for a felicitously wacky new name. And so--with respects to my colleague Cindy Adams, who's perfected this sort of thing:

Interview: No Age Talk Spike Jonze, Live-Action Animal Films, and Playing the New Museum

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

Letters

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

Michael Bay Can't Live Up to Michael Bay in Transformers Part 2

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

Michael Bay Melting In Our Mouth? No Thanks!

Michael Bay might be the last guy you want to put in your mouth, which makes this ad depicting the misogynist director as a disturbingly unshaven purple M&M all the more unsettling. [via NYMag/Vulture]

Bail Out The International

A movie with troubled assets, indeed

Iron Man, Mighty Avenger

Robert Downey Jr.'s comic-book hero a thing to marvel

Eye of the Beholder

Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story of paralyzed Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby

Enjoy Every Scapula

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Summer Lovin'

A week before his Ten Commandments comedy opens, David Wain's cult fave hits the midnight circuit

Cashback

A week before his Ten Commandments comedy opens, David Wain's cult fave hits the midnight circuit

Man Down

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

Transformers get gully

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

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning'

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

Downward Mobility

Brit movie brat takes the B horror movie where it deserves to go

'Typhoon'

Brit movie brat takes the B horror movie where it deserves to go

DimClone

'Island' flopping: Frat-metal bad boy Bay's sci-fi waxes philosophical before blowing shit up

Attack of the Clonus

'Island' flopping: Frat-metal bad boy Bay's sci-fi waxes philosophical before blowing shit up

Full Metal Racket

Steely resolve: Superhero family combats insurgent machines, supports tort reform

Magical Mediocrity Tour

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

Film

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

Days of Infamy

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Auto Ban

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Flashbacks: The Year in Movies

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Bugging Out

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls