Richard Dreyfuss

Summer 2013 Film Guide

Jenny Lewis Transitions From Everyone's Fave Indie Sweetheart To Very Good Girl

About a year and a half ago, singer-songwriter and former Rilo Kiley principal Jenny Lewis was in a difficult spot. Crippling writer's block had stopped her in her tracks right in the middle of work on her third solo album, the follow-up to 2008's Acid Tongue. Her father had just passed away. Her lo ... More >>

Lincoln: Good Spielberg's Bad Moments

What should we make of radiant Lincoln and blubbering Private Ryan?

Nativism, Fedoras, and the 'Hipster' Takeover of Montauk

A few weeks back, New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg wrote a piece on the newest victim of the constantly invading bohemian culture that sucks up dilapidation and spits out haute couture. Ugh, yes, it was another "This is where the hipsters are going this week" piece that we all love to hate b ... More >>

Albert Brooks Reveals Three Smash Movies He Turned Down!

I'll get to that in a second. But first let me remind you that Brooks is up for all sort of awards for his hipster performance as a Jewish gangster in Drive. Of course it didn't happen overnight. In a Film Society of Lincoln Center talk that I attended in my surgical shoes, Brooks talked about his ... More >>

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things, in Red

Leaves of Grass, Up in Smoke

Leaves of Grass Goes Up in Smoke

Oscar's Biggest Outrages!

​Did Liz Taylor really deserve that Oscar for Butterfield 8 or was it all about the tracheotomy? How about such surprise winners as Grace Kelly, Judy Holliday, and Richard Dreyfuss? Did the people who decided Dubya won Ohio in 2004 get their early training by tallying these Oscar categories? ... More >>

WE COME IN PEACE

Aliens land in Bryant Park

My Life in Ruins Is Nia Vardalos' Strangely Self-Loathing Anti-Comeback

Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to Dubya's M.O. In W.

But at this point, who cares? (Other than Josh Brolin.)

Wednesday 7/26

Sunday 7/23

Just Add Water

Mechanical disaster-movie remake removes old people, inserts expensive fireballs

Vision Quest

Get your avant-garde fix with plenty of experimental cinema this season

Sightlines

Stoned reader re-narrates Potter

Letters

Diamond Dogs

Scratch That Pitch

Death Be Not Proud

Sexy Beasts and Sweet Nothings

Former Garage

Children’s Crusades

Wizened Guys

A Guide to the Season's Competitors

Look Homeward