Michael Caine

Summer 2013 Film Guide

Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol: Your Seasonal Multimedia Fable

Dickens ghosts around the Abrons Arts Center

Lustig for Life: Dipping into Grimy Genre Greats from the Warner Archive

The Five Best Celebs To Interview

A journalist I know has grilled even more top-drawer stars than I have, so I asked him for his five faves--the ones who play the Q&A game with so much smarts and appeal that you long to shove a tape recorder right up in their face and watch them go at it. Here are his choices: (5) George Clooney ... More >>

Deathtrap Revival Canceled After Author's Sons Object To Nudity And Gayness

A production of the late Ira Levin's mystery play Deathtrap won't return to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center after all because Levin's three sons, who control his estate, didn't like two things about the production: 1) The nudity. (The aspiring writer character, named Clifford, disrobed at one poin ... More >>

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

For Shame: Our 10 Favorite Swinging Dicks of Films Past

Even More Cross-Dressing Movie Stars!

John Hansen, The Christine Jorgensen Story​There seems to be a bottomless well of these. Screen fame obviously equals a throbbing desire to get into heels if you're a man and a bowler hat if you're a dame. These are thanks to the J.C. Suares-edited book, Hollywood Drag. Let the glamorous, a ... More >>

Lightning McQueen's European Vacation in Cars 2

Men v. Food: On the Road With Steve and Rob in The Trip

Woody Allen's Best Movies Ranked In Order

​Midnight in Paris has gotten some of the best reviews in ages for master auteur Woody Allen, who keeps on cranking them out, as blissfully neurotic as ever. And that's a good opportunity for me to look back at Woody's incredibly large ouevre and pick his five best gems, in ascending order of ... More >>

ICorrect Website Allows Celebrities (and Others) to Set the Record Straight

​"I would like to set the record straight about the horse in Studio 54," Bianca Jagger writes on the recently debuted site, ICorrect, a place where celebrities and other public figures and corporations can legitimize the hearsay of online banter. "I love horses and I used to have a white horse ... More >>

New York City Remembers Elaine Kaufman of Elaine's, Restaurateur and Friend of the Stars

​Elaine Kaufman, referred to by the New York Times as the "salty den mother" of exclusive New York City restaurant Elaine's, died on Friday in Manhattan at the age of 81. The cause of death, perhaps darkly appropriate with regards to the period of New York City that Kaufman represented, was co ... More >>

Michael Caine's Company Not Enough to Carry Harry Brown

Is Anybody There? Is Crowley's Lighter Follow Up to Boy A

Murder, in Shades of Gray, in Boy A

Britain's infamous James Bulger case comes back, with nuance

Heath Ledger Peers Into The Abyss in The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan's Batman returns, delivers the kick-ass goods

Flawless

Nothing enjoyable about it

Hugs and Kisses #25: Kate Nash Interview, Part 2

Kenneth Branagh's Ferociously Arty, Vacuous Remake

Dean Johnson's Legacy, Anna Nicole's Lunacy

Devout banter about a very different Bible class, plus sleuthing about Sleuth and ragging on Rita

Going for the Gold

100 Years of Barbara

Plus 007 and oh, Canada

Don't Believe the (Lack of) Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

That Old Black Magic

Memento director takes his bag of tricks to the Victorian era

Past Masters

A rich repertory selection saves the year for cinephiles

Letters

Somewhere Else

Bill Laswell proves that Matthew Miller has a lot going on

The Big Uneasy

Absolute zero: Verbinski's chilly anti-drama is the oddest American film of the year

Cape and Scowl

Batman and sobbin': Orphan grief and existential questions in a grim franchise retake

Film

Film

Tracking Shot

Film

False Grooves

Tribes and Tribulations

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Learning Curves

Roads to Hell

Fling Time in a Quiet Town

'8 Mile' Lines and On-the-Job Bondage in Toronto

For Mature Audiences Only

Good Morning Britain

Sweet Release

Distributing the Art-House Wealth on the Cheap

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Hit Me Big Beat One More Time

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

Hogging the Spotlight

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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