The Marx Brothers

The Birthday Boys on IFC: How a Cult UCB Sketch Group Became a TV Show

Spring Reading: Top 5 Book Events of the Week

Julia Solis Spectacle Theater Thursday, 8pm, $5 There aren't any actual deaths in the ghost story Solis tells, but it's still mighty chilling. In her new photography collection Stages of Decay (Prestel), she chronicles the fallen grandeur of abandoned theaters across America and Europe, affectionate ... More >>

FRESH FRUIT

See Albert Hammond Jr.’s favorite flick

Never Nominated For An Oscar...

There are actors (like Peter O'Toole and Glenn Close) who've gotten nominated a whole lot of times and never won. Yet. But how about the ones who've never even been nominated? In the case of the dead ones, I'm pretty sure they never will be! Now that's gotta hurt. Here are some of the top omission ... More >>

Polyamory Takes Double Dating To An Extreme

I thought it was going to be a new, kinky version of Pollyana. But it turned out to be Polyamory: Married and Dating, so I haven't watched. I can't even get one lover, let alone three! The Showtime reality show is about "non-monogamous, committed relationships that involve more than two people."

Hello I Must Be Going

Free Will Astrology: June 6-12, 2012

Super Noodle Debuts Super-Hot Noodles in the West Village

This is what the dan dan noodles at Super Noodle look like before you stir them up. Younger sibling of the East Village's Hot Kitchen, Old Town Hot Pot opened on Seventh Avenue South just as winter approached last year, hoping to capitalize on the comfort-food aspects and do-it-yourself thrill of ... 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 >>

Peter And The Starcatcher: My Review

Just as Wicked provided the Oz backstory for new generations, Peter and the Starcatcher serves as a prequel to Peter Pan, but it uses a whole other tone. In showing how a mopey orphan boy became the arrested youth known as Peter Pan and a creepy pirate named Black Stache evolved into the taunting, ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Biggest Disappointment Thus Far, and A Mid-Festival Notebook Drop

​With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

Proud One Percenter: "Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That's Come Out of the 99 Percent?" (VIDEO)

We've had extensive coverage of the "99 percent" here at Runnin' Scared, but starting today we're going to try something new. Knowing they just don't get their fair share of time to speak to traditional media outlets (and certainly, they never get the ears of politicians), we'd like to open up a for ... More >>

Ghetto Bards: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish and Sholem Aleichem

The Astor Room Noshes on Nostalgia

A mixed bag of American classics in Astoria. But no beaver.

Possible 'Great Gatsby' Mansion to Be Razed to Build Houses for Rich People

​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

Duck Soup

Boudu Saved From Drowning

Animal Crackers

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Who's That Bloomberg Guy Knockin' On My Door?

For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg. It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>

The Informant! Gets Cute with Corporate Scandal, Blows the Story

No exclamation point necessary

2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

Anthology Film Archives Revives the Public Mischief of Robert Downey Sr.

GESTAPO = BOFFO B.O.

Nazi jokes return to Broadway

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing.

Foreman’s Multimedia Chamber Piece Suffers From Not Enough Foreman

Moscow on the Hudson

Lincoln Center celebrates 100 years of Russian cinema

The History Plays

Riots! Devils! Mopey Danes! The famous shows we're most sorry we missed.

Springtime for Zizek

Plus one we've all been waiting for: the Reagen-obsessed serial-killer movie!

NY Mirror

Horoscope

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Just Jack

The Beat re-generation: ERS brings back late-night Kerouac

Not Yet Rated

Sly stalwarts, newly uncovered rarities in pre-Code series

Surgical Strikes

Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship

Funny Because It's True

Central Asian Indie Wastes Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

The Five Distractions

Schmucks, yuks, HK cool, film school, and a sociology experiment: 2004's best DVD sets

It's a Shame About Ray

Re-creating 70 years of a beloved pop icon's life, Taylor Hackford's gotta have a montage

No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

Bliss and Blarney

American Rhapsody

Horoscope

Culture Vultures Home to Roost

Theater

Nation

O! Battling Elizabethans! O!

Show-Offs on the Rise

Multitalented Local Leads Resurgence in Cabaret

Making Tracks

Patrice Chéreau's Train of Thought

Chills and Spills