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Summer 2013 Film Guide

Oblivion: Tom Cruise is an App That Producers Can Buy to Power a Blockbuster

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

Another Subway Death Solution: NYPD Tracking Of Mentally Ill?

Okay, the platform doors, laser alert system and the advice for conductors to slow down were one thing. But this goes a little above and beyond that. Yesterday, news came that the NYPD, in accordance with the Health Department, has tracked down twenty-five mentally ill patients that have been deeme ... More >>

Alex Cross: The Dumbest Movie of the Year?

The Funniest 9/11 Movie Ever: An Interview With The Makers Of Unclear Holocaust

Last year, as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was approaching and the rest of America seemed to be preparing for a memorialization in keeping with the previous decade of jingoism and revenge, three young filmmakers were hard at work on a different sort of commemoration. Calling themselves the Anti-Ban ... More >>

Wuthering Heights: Black Like Me

Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Brontë braves lines of color

Oscars Live Blog: Finally, Some Attention for Our Nation's Celebrities

​Tonight, we'll be covering the 84th Annual Academy Awards, live from a computer. Stay here on Runnin' Scared for exclusive insight and commentary from a Hollywood insider who has seen THREE movies this year (not including a two-part episode of The Mentalist that looked pretty big-budget). Who ... More >>

For Cannon Films, Chuck Norris + Godard = Success

"Eddie Murphy is The Most Commercially Successful African-American Actor...

"...in the history of the motion picture business." That's what it says in Eddie's bio in the press notes for Shrek Forever After, and press kits never lie, right? To double check it, I looked up lifetime b.o. gross totals on boxofficemojo.com and sure enough, Eddie tops other heavyweights like De ... More >>

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results

Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell​ Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reasons #6-#3: Clothes, Yankees, Mets, Racism

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. We're behind schedule, so here are four for the price of one. Previous reasons here, here, here, and here. ​6. Fashion: We stopped trying, outsourced our clothing trends to stars. 50's: Pegg ... More >>

SAG Award Nominations Heat Up Movie Prize Fever

​Hot on the heels of the big critics' awards and the Golden Globe nominations, the Screen Actors Guild has unveiled its annual award nominations for films and television. SAG has been handing these out for 16 years, but only in the past few years has awards fever caused non-professionals to pa ... More >>

Johnny Depp Remembers Heath--And Other Oscar Treats

Showstoppers and rip-offs in the blowsy movie musical. Plus: Paper's Nightlife Awards

Be the Wolverine of the Photocopier: Studies in Crap Carves Up How to Be a Business Superhero

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.​ How to Be a Business Superhero Author: Venture capitalist Sean Wise Date: 2008 Discove ... More >>

Modern-food fads we wish would go away

What We Learned about the Election in This Summer's Movies

From the multiplex to the stump: It's caped crusader versus community organizer, and the end is nigh

Overlooked and Undervalued, the Films of Jerry Schatzberg

Forgotten auteur of 70s skepticism and American waywardness

Interview: Jazz Bassist Marcus Miller, the "M" of S.M.V.

Talking Strategy with Mets' Manager Jerry Manuel

And Tolstoy. . .

The Dark Knight: Selling Tickets—and a Muddled Political Message

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is also shilling a jumbled message of the paranoia of our age and the politics of fear.

Batman's Muddled Political Metaphors

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is selling tickets—and a jumbled message on the paranoia of our age and the politics of fear

Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad

On Returning with Mister Lonely

Michel Gondry Celebrates the Bygone Days of VHS

Caught on tape: the best of do-it-yourself indie culture in Be Kind Rewind

Beantown Boys Make Good

The Brothers Affleck come through with a complex, sophisticated Boston crime drama

Evan Can Wait

Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

To Catch a Predator

In his hunt for the Zodiac killer, David Fincher forgoes the personal for the process, and in the process Nathan Lee geeks out.

Private Enemy

Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

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My Flood of Tears

Shame for my city, shame for my country

Cape and Scowl

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

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Monumental Errors

Can the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Campaign Be Saved?

Flights of Clancy

Almost Heroes

Conduct Unbecoming

Faith No More

'The Believer' Makes the Long Pilgrimage to the Silver Screen

Repeat Offenders

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Desperate Remedies

Picture This

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

Doing Time with Glowing Saints and Glowering Sinners

Ardor in the Court

Shekhar Kapur, Queen Maker