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Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

The 10 Sexiest Men In Show Biz

According to Glamour UK's reader poll. I'll give them to you in ascending order of popularity.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Amazing Fantasy

The spider becomes a man—and a joy—in The Amazing Spider-Man

The 18 Best Rapper Movies

Since the days of Wild Style and Krush Groove, rappers have put their music on hold and delved into the film world. A bunch of these efforts were pretty bad—remember Ice-T in Leprechaun in the Hood—while others were so bad they were good. Cam crying in Killa Season or KRS fleeing the sce ... More >>

For Shame: Our 10 Favorite Swinging Dicks of Films Past

The Social Network Cleans Up at the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Burns Them to the Ground

​Last night's Golden Globes were...weird. They were sad, they were awkward, they were kind of bleak and sinister, like a cocktail party gone on way too long, till everyone's smiles are forced and dresses rumpled. The Social Network did well, winning four awards, as did Glee, which took home th ... More >>

Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet: Superhero Slob

Courtney Love: "Get Me Out of Movie Prison!"

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown's in town, and she's not one of them.

Breaking: Michael Arrington Responds to AOL/TechCrunch Acquisition Rumors with Potentially Suicidal Segway Rides, Truancy

​It has recently been rumored that TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington -- a tech/media entrepreneur who takes the whole "bustin' down doors" bravado pretty seriously -- is in acquisition talks with media giant AOL, Om Malik at GigaOm reports, noting that the deal "is at a sensitive stage and migh ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 5 Results

I hear Lady Gaga's in the house tonight for the Cinco de Mayo installment of the results show, and hopefully singing a Frank Sinatra song. Or duetting with Harry Connick, Jr. That would be awwwwesome. 9:03pm. Group sing: the four boys sing "The Lady is a Tramp" and does that make Crystal Bowersox ... More >>

The Losers, Not a Winning Comic-Book Thriller

Will & Grace Star's Affair With George Clooney

Chattering with Emmy winner Leslie Jordan, plus sounding off on Broadway.

Hound of the Baskervilles and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on DVD

Choose Basil Rathbone over Robert Downey

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin as Oscar Hosts!

​Remember the comedy team of Martin and Lewis? Hello? Well, brace yourselves for Martin and Baldwin! Yep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will cohost the Oscars next year, and they should do pretty well, especially if no one tells them that Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. unceremoniously turn ... More >>

5 New York 70s Movies We Are Terrified to See Remade

At the Observer today, Christopher Rosen, stimulated by the unfortunate new The Taking of Pelham 123, decries remakes of 70s New York classics. But his complaint is that "Only '70s period pieces remain locked inside the isolation of past events... We want '70s films to be something other than a ... More >>

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

Bill Maher Takes Us to Hell!

Sally Hawkins just grins, while Greg Kinnear spills the Soup

-30- for Dunleavy, with a Correction

Free Will Astrology: October 1 through 7

Jonathan Lethem: We're the Joker; McCain's Batman; Obama Settles for Wall-E

The American Idol Season Finale Running Diary: David Archuleta Totally Loses

Thursday Is Officially 'Thriller' Night

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.

Freak, Out

Playing legendary photographer Diane Arbus, Nicole Kidman is an unconvincing weirdo

Brain Candy

Richard Linklater's literate Dick adaptation is a brain-bending D-light

Nightmares of TV's Messy Adolescence

'Game Six'

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Smoke and Mirrors

Foe McCarthy: Clooney's compact, conscientious paean to a bygone era of principles

Extinguished Journalist

The story behind Ed Klein, author of the latest Hillary-bashing tome

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Ignorants and Know-Alls Keep Out

Eight inauthenticities hard to resist, even when hard to understand, or impossible to love

Triple X

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

Nuts and Volts

Halle Berry's looney-tuned fireworks jinxed by a French ex-auteur's waterlogged ambition

Fall Film

Animal Crackers

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Who’s Sorry Now?

Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade

Stars and Bars

Law-Breaking Celebrities Like Robert Downey Jr. Are in the News Again. Interested?

‘Boys’ Keeps Swinging

Curtis Hanson’s Second Coming

Sports

Street Smarts

Desperate Men and Twisted Sisters

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Neck and Neck

Hollywood Starlets Vie for the Audrey Hepburn Mantle

Opposing Farces

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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