United Airlines Flight 93

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

Captain Phillips is a Hokey High Seas Drama Apt to Turn Stomachs and Elicit Groans

A Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies.

Pamela Geller's War

Eleven years ago, Pamela Geller declared war on savages who were trying to take over the world. This November, she admits she lost.

F2K Presents: The Nine Worst September 11 Response Songs

Today is the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a moment in American history that was pretty horrifying for reasons that have been enumerated countless times. Their effects on pop music weren't as tragic, to be sure, but they were pretty unfortunate—artists on both sides of the aisl ... More >>

9/11 Family Group Wants National Park Service to Take Over WTC Memorial

A 9/11 family group is calling for the National Parks Service to take over the memorial/museum at the World Trade Center site, claiming that the folks currently running it have turned it into a "memorial-industrial complex characterized by gross mismanagement, bloated salaries and out-of-control spe ... More >>

The Assault

Heather Penney, Female Fighter Pilot, Tells of Her Would-Be Kamikaze Mission on 9/11

Penney​Everyone has a 9/11 story, and each is important in its own way, but the story of Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, one of the first generation of U.S. female combat pilots, comes with a special kind of bravery and doing what you need to do in the face of unprecedented tragedy and danger. Pen ... More >>

9/11 Flight Numbers Will Be Retired Forever

​United Continental will "permanently retire" flight numbers 93 and 175, Bloomberg reports, in honor of the flights hijacked on September 11, 2011. Over the past decade, the numbers have not been in use, but an error earlier this week caused them to pop up again, much to the chagrin of pilots' ... More >>

The Way Back Is a Grueling Trip

Rightbloggers on DADT: A Slow March Toward Tolerance, With Side Trips to Insanity

This weekend the Senate repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the 17-year-old policy that allowed gays to serve in the U.S. military only if they could conceal their sexual orientation. The bill awaits Obama's signature. You might expect rightbloggers to be angry about it, and some of them are -- hila ... More >>

Matt Damon's WMD of a Movie, Green Zone

Finally confirming the big lie, Hollywood-style

The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger

Grounded: The Kite Runner Just Won't Fly

Still, controversy notwithstanding

Out of the Blue

A Star is Bourne (Again)

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

Mission: Midtown

Teenage girl prepares to blow up Times Square, and herself, in the harrowing Day Night

Bring Da Ruckus

Still don't nothing move but the money in thrilling Wu-Tang reunion-show doc

The Oscar Race Decoded!

Hoberman's Top 10

V For Violence

From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war

Lee's Top 10

A Memorial at Once Visceral and Sober

Letters

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

NY Mirror

The New Disaster Movie

How the events of September 11 renewed Hollywood's appetite for destruction

NY Mirror

Un-Hyped 9-11 Film Distinguishes Heroism From Patriotism

NY Mirror

Letters

NY Mirror

A Flight to Remember

Bloody Tuesday: Paul Greengrass's visceral cine-memorial stakes its claim to authenticity

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Conspiracy 101

The basics of alternative 9-11 theories

Trauma Drama: More 9-11 Movies

Letters

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

Fear of Flying

Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings

The 9-11 Gun

The 9-11 Bogeyman

Nation

Clichés for a Reason

Not Knowing What Else to Do, Singers Sing 9-11 Songs

Ragged Glory

Unsafe at Any Price

If Terrorists Take Down Nuclear Plants, You Pay—By the Hundreds of Billions

Fall Classics

Life in the Cheap Seats Suddenly Becomes Precious

Working-Class Heroes

Towering Losses, Towering Deeds