Robert Rodriguez

Rick Perry Wants to Wrangle New York Business and Ride It All the Way Home to Texas

Kerflump, kerflump, kerflump. Hear that? It's the sound of Texas Governor Rick Perry riding an imaginary steed to New York and Connecticut, where he's set to launch a four-day tour next week in an attempt to herd local business back to Texas. Perry, whose presidential bid tripped up over an ad crit ... More >>

Village People's Randy Jones Starts a New Club Night!

Randy Jones, the original cowboy from the legendary disco group the Village People, is a man of many hats--not just cowboy ones. He's starting a party called Sunday Night Fever at Splash this Sunday, May 6. Here's what the ever-charming Randy had to say about stuff when I asked. On his input int ... More >>

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

True to Its Title, and Nothing More, Hobo With a Shotgun

American Grindhouse Traces the Lineage of Cheapjack Cinematic Slop

Year in Film: Hoberman's Top 10

Old timers, newcomers, and even Leo make the list

Introducing Frankie Latina's Badass Exploitation in Modus Operandi

Wish You Were Here: Venice Film Festival Opens With "Mickey Rourke in a Tutu"

​The 67th Venice Film Festival, where I'm currently on jury duty (although not on the jury headed by Quentin Tarantino) opened majorly pop with Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's warmly received and borderline risible follow-up to his 2008 Golden Lion winner The Wrestler. Although a generic horr ... More >>

When Not LOL-Funny, Machete Is Downright Dull

This Week in the Voice: New York's Gossip Loses Its Grip

​In the history of contemporary gossip, New York City's reputation for having the sharpest, most steely-nerved power players breaking news nobody else would--or could--touch was unprecedented. But something's happened over the last few years where New York's most powerful characters -- and the ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Fall Arts Guide, Interpol, Karen O's Style Guru, Robyn, Vijay Iyer, Matthew Dear, and More

Adios Carlos D! Photo by Lee Gwyn.​In this week's Voice, we present our fall arts guide: Mikael Wood on the return of Interpol, sans Carlos D; Angela Ashman goes shopping with Karen O's style guru, Christian Joy; Aaron Hillis interviews director Oliver Stone; James Hannaham talks to author Mat ... More >>

Predators, a Robert Rodriguez-Produced Sequel

This action-flick's pretense is like "Satisfaction" for bar cover-bands—if you hit most of the notes, it'll do

Rightbloggers Denounce Goddamn Liberal Law & Order, Celebrate Tea-Party Robin Hood, and Other Culture War Gibberish

After 20 years on NBC, Law & Order has been cancelled (though it may get picked up by TNT). The show had an extraordinary run -- one season shy of a TV drama-series record. So it would seem reasonable to blame its demise on old age and a superfluity of L&O spin-offs, right? Not in rightblogger wor ... More >>

'The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon’s Civil War ' at Walter Reade

Lebanese film series illustrates the absence of sense in a 15-year fight

Teachers Bring Suit Against Klein Over Rubber Rooms

Several schoolteachers are suing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, claiming their confinement to "rubber rooms" -- holding facilities for teachers removed from duty, usually on disciplinary charges -- violates their rights. They claim the Chancellor has no authority to charge or hold them, and that ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

Robert Rodriguez's CGI-Overload, Shorts

Mickey Rourke is The Wrestler

The onetime Hollywood A-lister climbs back in the ring with Darren Aronofsky's latest

Zombie Slasher Love

Match made in grindhouse: Rodriguez's undead meet Tarantino's psychopath stuntman in splatter-fest double-header

For a Few Dollars More

As technologies evolve and priorities shift, media nonprofits struggle to stay afloat

'Take the Lead'

Rack Focus

Pearl Street Mystery

They used to live here. Then one afternoon, they simply disappeared.

'The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D'

Encore Performances

Dardennes mine past to win second Palme d'Or, but Hou's hopes are tied to the future

Dark Night Returns

Black and white and red all over

Film

Film

NY Mirror

Rodriguez's Desperado Hours Drag, but Johnny Be Good

Tarantino-Tested

Will Quentin's Long-Awaited Kung Fu Gore-Super-Soak, Kill Bill, Inspire Moviegoing Fervor?

Children's Crusades

The Kids Stay in the Picture

U.S. Soldiers Who Died in Iraq

A Growing List

Lone Gunmen

Sexy Beasts

Keep It Together

Lost Dreams

Welcome to the Latino Gaze

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Season Opener

RGB Begins Annual Rent Ritual

The Faculty

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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Birthday Wishes

As Time Passes, So Does Hope of Finding Missing Loft Tenants