Sean Penn

What Should Documentaries Do?

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Los Carpinteros Moonwalk through the Crack-up

A communist party

Matthew McConaughey Shapes Mud Into Man

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

L.A.'s Finest

Daniel Day-Lewis's Third Oscar?

If the protean Daniel Day-Lewis wins his third Oscar for Lincoln--which there's a much better chance of happening than Liz & Dick nabbing an Emmy--he'll be the first three-time Best Actor winner in the Academy's history. Other actors have won three Oscars, mind you, but not all for Best Actor. (Ja ... More >>

How to Speak Republican

Leaked document reveals the secrets of the GOP's coded language

The Gay Man In Marigold Hotel! Discuss

I had avoided seeing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel because the trailer looked so awful, but it's a hit, so I checked it out and found it pretty charming (except for the young couple's love story and all the platitudes). It's basically Enchanted April, Cocoon, and Love Actually meet Slumdog Million ... More >>

Best Movie Poster Ever!

Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn can be a hit-or-miss type of actor, but he's scored a golden coup with his new movie's poster alone. It's for This Must Be The Place, opening March 30, and it's described like so.

Milk

Real Men Get Their Facts Straight

Ashton and Demi and Sex Trafficking

Jessica White, Model, Gets Off Easy in Assault Case

​What a day for ladies and crime. First we had the innocent Trader Joe's Thai Food slapper and then the stealing socialite. Now, the marauding model gets her case dismissed. Jessica White was arrested outside Avenue Lounge after she allegedly hit a woman and pulled her hair in a dispute over a ... More >>

The Difficult Gifts of The Tree of Life

Summer Movie Guide 2011

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

Rightbloggers on Atlas Shrugged: It's the Feel-Good, Piece-of-Crap Movie of the Year!

When best-selling books like The DaVinci Code or the Twilight series become movies, their fans take to the internet to share their excitement. They argue over the film's fidelity to their favorite characters and scenes, and revel in their love-object's moment in the cinematic sun. So too it has bee ... More >>

Peeping at Susan Sarandon's Peepers at BAM

Phil Ochs, Folkie, Back Home in the Village

Plamegate Gets the Somber Sean Penn Treatment in Fair Game

HAPPY HOUR

Have a drink with your indie cinema

Still Not Voting For Wyclef Jean For President of Haiti Friday News Roundup

So now it's even more official: after confirming to the New York Times yesterday that he was running for the Haitian presidency, Wyclef Jean went on CNN last night to formally announce his campaign. Don't vote for him. Meanwhile, NPR questions whether he's even eligible to run, and the internation ... More >>

The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen

Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

March Through Lower Manhattan Commemorates Harvey Milk's 80th Birthday

​Eighty years ago today, on May 22, 1930, Harvey Milk was born in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. As the first openly gay elected official in California, Milk became an icon of San Francisco's 1970s Castro District and more generally, gay activism as a rising phenomenon. As Sean Penn showe ... More >>

Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply

So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is

Easy Rider

Waltz with Bashir Wins National Critics' Award

The National Society of Film Critics named Waltz With Bashir, an animated fable of the 1982 Lenanon war, its Best Film of 2008. Critics including our own J. Hoberman ("a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature") praised the film highly, though its chance ... More >>

Jon Voight Confronted About McCain!

Baggage from Marc Jacobs, Josh Brolin's take on Harvey's killer.

Gossip About Pamela Anderson, Madonna, and The Facts of Life!

The non-dish on Nancy McKeon; the worst recession sale in town.

Some Alternate Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes award that really matters: ours

Kaki King's Busker Therapy

Guileless dervish emerges from the subway, (real-life) guitar in hand

Going for the Gold

Iraq: The News You Haven't Read

Rallies Today: World Can't Wait--for What?

The Great Cover-Up, Part 1

Dear Abbie's Esquire

Talking with Gerald Lefcourt, attorney to stars many, motley, and magnanimous

La Dolce Musto

Film

Horoscope

Freeze Frame: Stabs of Beauty in a Chilly Romantic Dystopia

After The Rehearsal

Flirting with Disaster: Discussing Days of Heaven and Dylan classics with Sam Shepard

NY Mirror

Rock-A-Bye Granny: Shaw Air-Guitars an Unbiased Lullaby

Play Mystic For Me

With an ambitious crime thriller, Clint Eastwood opens NYFF and returns to top form

Exile in Dogville

22 films from 14 countries: Striking crimson gold at the annual New York Film Festival

Hooked on a Feeling

The 'Times' Records a Year of Bitterness

Memory and Desire

Toronto a Year Later

NY Mirror

The Emancipation Proclamations

NY Mirror

Teen Angels

Bad Habits

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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