The Birth of a Nation

Django Unchained Upends the Western

A history of violence

Tales of the Night (Les Contes de la Nuit)

Meet the Breitbrats: Carrying on the Work of Andrew Breitbart, Only Really, Really Badly

When Andrew Breitbart died at the absurdly young age of 43, rightbloggers were sad -- and also mad at liberals, whom some of them blamed for the rageaholic activist's death. After a period of mourning, they decided that the best tribute to their fallen leader would be to follow his example, i.e., ... More >>

The Conspirator: Another Dull History Lesson From Robert Redford

Battleship Potemkin, a/k/a Cinema History's Third Greatest Game-Changer

'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

Nashville Flood Proves to Rightbloggers: Obama Hates America, White People

Even if you don't know much about rightbloggers, you probably know that since time immemorial conservatives have blamed the nation's problems and Democratic Administrations on something called the Liberal Media. This nefarious press syndicate (of which the Village Voice is considered a charter membe ... More >>

Intolerance

The Avenging Conscience

Letters

Bergman's Bad Girl

Planet of the Ape

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Channeling the Sixties

A mature woman revisits the music her young self loved, creating a rich solo dance journey

Popular Parsing

On the most American of American movie critics

Who the Man?

The Democrats scramble to find a scream-proof alpha

Final Fantasy

Conclusions of grandeur: Peter Jackson's opus hobbitus goes out in a blaze of digital glory

A Judge's Life: The Final Reckoning

'Look at the Justice System From a Black Perspective'

Keepin' It Unreal

$elling the Myth of Bla¢k Male Violen¢e, Long Past Its Expiration Date

Monster Mash-up

Nation

Melodrama Queen

Brave Hearts

Go Western, Young Man

Personal Bests

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Palace Walks

On the Road With the Theatre Historical Society

Fest Forward

Digital Video at Cannes

The Movies Made Me Do It

How much are 'Natural Born' Killers affected by film violence?

Devil's Advocate

Up Beat

History Repeating

Kevin Brownlow on His Obsessive Period Reconstructions

Taking Another Stab