Michael Mann

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

Welcome to the Punch Gives Yesterday's Goods a New Polish

Parker: Rough Guide to a Rough Guy

Q&A: HEALTH's John Famiglietti On Scoring Max Payne 3

An enfeebling hollowness characterizes HEALTH's dark electronic pop. On 2007's HEALTH and 2009's Get Color, the Los Angeles-based quartet seemed to specialize in what might be described as "Grim Reaper ambient": vocals and tinny synthesizers bled through filters until impossibly brittle, riding a fo ... More >>

The Year in Film: Team Margaret

The best movie of the year (that you haven't been able to see). And 9 more picks.

Alec Baldwin Will Not Run For Mayor After All

​For a while, Alec Baldwin was doing his damnedest to sow the seeds of a possible mayoral run in New York City. Or at least to drum up enough buzz so it appeared that he was kind of serious about it, which it turns out (to few people's surprise) he's not; Baldwin said on WNYC today that he "do ... More >>

Last Rites of Joe May

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Shows Signs of Life on Narnia

The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

Philip Seymour Hoffman and His Stage Pals get it Right with Jack Goes Boating

T.I. in Takers

This is the best baseline-competent action movie to come out all summer

First Time's the Charm for Animal Kingdom Director David Michod

American Idol Season 9, Songs From Movies: Jamie Foxx Does the Michael Mann

​Well, I guess we're not getting a disco week this year, huh? What bullshit. Instead, this week was dedicated to songs from movies, a pretty incoherent theme when you consider the idea that songs from movies almost never have anything to do with those movies. There was a weird moment during t ... More >>

Rightbloggers On Healthy Conservative Debate: Shut Up! (Whoops, We Mean: Epistemic Closure!)

We're not accustomed to think of rightbloggers as intellectuals. For one thing -- as we have ample opportunity to observe here every week -- they sure don't act like intellectuals; in fact, they seem allergic to logical argument, and sometimes even committed to a backwards Bizarro World version of i ... More >>

Tom Mylan on 'Miami Vice,' Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri, Sake, and his Bachelor Party

Tom Mylan​ Yesterday, The Meat Hook opened, and we ran an interview with butcher Tom Mylan about the meats he's selling there, the tribulations of being called a "rock star butcher," and why butchering isn't as cool as you think it is. Read on to check out the second half of the interview, i ... More >>

The Informant! Gets Cute with Corporate Scandal, Blows the Story

No exclamation point necessary

Depp Does John Dillinger's Life and Crimes in Public Enemies

This Week's Voice: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

In this week's Village Voice, we remember Michael Jackson: Greg Tate on the man and his legacy, rapper Jean Grae on what Jackson meant to musicians everywhere, and Jessica Hopper, reporting live from Gary, Indiana the night Jackson died. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla describes the daffy sci-fi audacity ... More >>

Heath Ledger Peers Into The Abyss in The Dark Knight

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

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

Oh, The Humanity of a Heist

Noir screenwriter makes strong directorial debut; Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

Where is Jamie Foxx?

'Cocaine Cowboys'

Downward Mobility

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

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann's visceral cop series update

'La Scorta'

Ikea Techno That's Best When You Can't Distinguish It at All

Spy Game

Traffic writer's slick oil thriller oozes with intrigue but crams too much into its drum

Eclectic Boogaloo

Baxter actor Theroux on David Lynch and the art of deadpan

Foreign Legion

Annual French buffet offers an array of international flavors, both original and orthodox

Film

Film

Mediocre Marvel Probes Elektra's Complexes, Costumes

Double Exposure

The enemies within: Crisscrossing moles face off in a stylish hall-of-mirrors mood piece

Mann on Fire

Conducting a city symphony, an accomplished stylist hitches a ride on a flowchart script

Sunset Blvd. to Mulholland Dr.: Los Angeles Films Itself

Baad Boys

Discussing race and revolution with Van Peebles Sr. and Jr.

Monsters, Inc.

Maggie May . . .

The Many Sides of Indie Film's Newest Siren

Slinging Rehash

'Ali': Imitation of a Life

Fight Songs

Space Odyssey

Michael Mann’s Vision Quest

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Blood Sports

Crisis modes

Crisis Modes

I Want My B-E-T

Let Us Now Praise Famous Gangstas (and Their Videos)

The Last Picture Show

The optimist's guide to the Millennium's final fall-movie crop

Six Ways to Sunday

Seven Days Beats Its Pulp Into a Brain