The Descendants

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Stacie Passon's Superb Concussion Is Why We Have a Sundance in the First Place

Lloyd Kaufman: The Toxic Director

The filmmaker gets his close-up after 40 years of Troma (more or less)

Wake and Seek: A Stoner Goes After His Destiny in Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Nostalgia Has Wussified Our Culture! Make It Stop!

It's getting out of control—hear me out

Angelina's Leg Has Started A Phenomenon

Angelina Jolie with her leg sticking out of that slit in her dress may well become as iconic an image as Marilyn with her shmatte flying up. When she swiveled out on the Oscars with her hand on her hip and her chickeny leg out, it prompted instant homage (The Descendants' writers did it with tuxes ... More >>

Oscars Live Blog: Finally, Some Attention for Our Nation's Celebrities

​Tonight, we'll be covering the 84th Annual Academy Awards, live from a computer. Stay here on Runnin' Scared for exclusive insight and commentary from a Hollywood insider who has seen THREE movies this year (not including a two-part episode of The Mentalist that looked pretty big-budget). Who ... More >>

Meryl Won't Win, and Other Surefire Oscar Predictions

This is the only ballot you'll need at your viewing party

The Tree Of Life Wins Film Lovers Poll

The poll was taken at a panel I was on last night at the Strand Bookstore. Slate's Dana Stevens, Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, and myself were there to gab about the Oscar race. (The New Yorker's David Denby, also scheduled, mysteriously never showed up.) After our talk, MC Deborah Reinisch asked the ... More >>

My Final Oscar Nomination Predictions!

​The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>

Rosie O'Donnell Trashes Some Major Directors

​Last night's National Board of Review dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street was a long but rewarding evening filled with gratitude and sass. Presenter Rosie O'Donnell ripped into Lars von Trier's movies and said it was OK for her to trash him; "I'll never work for him--or Woody Allen. Pedophile? Wh ... More >>

The Year in Film: Handicapping the Poll

Sure, The Tree of Life won, but did it really win?

Here Come The Oscar Films! Clooney! Leo! And Lots of Fucking!

Contenders are piling up in the theaters-here are the ones to watch

Fantasy Island: Alexander Payne's Feel-Good Hawaiian Excursion, The Descendants

This Week in the Voice: Ray Kelly's Secret List, Boring Married People

​This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman reveals the existence of Ray Kelly's list of police officers who cannot be transferred without his personal approval. "The list, which the Voice obtained from an NYPD employee, is part of a 23-page spreadsheet that contains the names of 2,300 o ... More >>

George Clooney Is Our Best Old-School Movie Star

​And by that I mean he harkens back to an era when movie stars were glamorous, a tad enigmatic, and full of instantly turn-onable charm. What's more, he's a reliable presence in movies, and no matter what he plays, he's always George Clooney, which winds up being extremely comforting for the ... More >>

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