Scott Rudin

Lady Rizo and Bridget Everett Show us How Stars Get Made

Breaking Big, But Slowly

Spring Arts Guide: The Testament of Mary, Quite Contrary

Fiona Shaw and Colm Tóibin explore the inner life of Jesus's mom

Gangster Squad's Cop-Turned-Screenwriter Faces the Thin Blue Line Edit

L.A.'s Finest

The Tony Awards Are Over! My Roundup

Here are the highlights from my very vivid three-hour viewing experience. Hold your applause till the end: Interviewed on the red carpet, Tyne Daly dismissively said the Tonys are a race meant for everyone else, "not for us." She wasn't nominated. How bad were the musicals this year? So bad that ... More >>

Clybourne Park Director On How She Dealt With The Horror

This week's column catches up with all the big Broadway shows of the season via my interviews with a slew of deeply honored Tony nominees. One of them, Pam MacKinnon, deserves a separate writeup. Pam did the socko direction for the Pulitzer wining Clybourne Park, which takes off from the racial pr ... More >>

The Year in Film: People of the Year

Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

According to The Social Network, You Are Definitely Not the Only Asshole on Facebook

The Star-Studded Hollywood Invasion of Broadway Continues: Stiller, Kidman, Rock, and More!

​The last year in Broadway theater saw the appearances of names like Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Zeta-Jones not just on stages, but in the same award categories as their Loyal-to-New-York-Theater co-stars. The trending caused our own lead theater critic Michael Feingold to pen an epic scr ... More >>

2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material

​The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>

My Favorite Things

​Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical -- an all-star remake of The Sound of Music -- is proving to be more difficult than anticipated ... More >>

Winslet and Fiennes' The Reader Takes the Long and (Oscar-)Worthy Road to Redemption

Sorting Through More of Harvey Weinstein's Garbage

The New American Realism

Backed by producer Paul Mezey, a group of like-minded filmmakers work outside of the indie machine

A Jones for Indiana

It's the Littlest-Blockbuster-That-Could. The notorious fan-made remake of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' rides into Anthology Film Archives.

NY Mirror

Drastic Alterations

Chang-rae Lee goes spinning on air—but keep an eye on the weird man in the margins

NY Mirror

The Connections

Perchance to Screen

Sex & Negrocity

John Singleton on Shtupping, Shaft, and Spike

Gripe Nuts

Actors Bite Hand That Feeds,
Insert Foot in Mouth

Both Sides Now

Having Your Way With Hollywood, or the Further Adventures of Steven Soderbergh

Freak Association

TV Maverick Mike White Stalks the Big Screen With Chuck & Buck

AMERICAN PSYCHOS