War of the Worlds

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

Tom Cruise Wants To Protect Us From Aliens Living In Our Bodies!

Now we know why Tom Cruise was jumping up and down on Oprah's couch so emphatically. He was trying to rattle those aliens up inside him and get them to come plopping out! That must be the same reason he wore assless chaps in Rock of Ages. (And yes, I know "assless chaps" is a redundancy, but I like ... More >>

David Koepp at the End of Civilization

The writer/director on filming in NYC, George Romero, and saying no to bad script notes

CUTTING EDGE

The largest Mexican animation festival comes to NYC

Spielberg and Fincher: Taming Creatures

WWI gets Spielberg’d; Fincher’s new girl in town

Hey, Scientology Celebrity, Here's Your Media Training Checksheet!

Our readers send us the most wonderful things. By e-mail and snail mail, our far-flung correspondents put in our hands Scientology's tasteless fundraising mailers (which we use in our recurring Sunday Funnies posts), they send us over-the-top glossy Scientology magazines, and of course they send us ... More >>

Not With a Whimper But a Bang: The End Times of Melancholia

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 4: Tom Cruise

​On August 5, we started a countdown that will give credit -- or blame -- to the people who have contributed most to the sad current state of Scientology. From its greatest expansion in the 1980s, the church is a shell of what it once was and is mired in countless controversies around the worl ... More >>

Super Fun, Super Loud, Super 8

Inside Scientology's Labor Camp That Benefits Tom Cruise: The Photos

Tom and Katie, beneficiaries of menial labor?​One of the many accusations made about Scientology in Lawrence Wright's masterful piece in this week's New Yorker is that the organization's "Sea Org" members -- who sign billion-year contracts -- work for a measly $50 a week and do hard labor that ... More >>

BLOODY BROADCAST

Macbeth goes on the air

When Lamps and Chairs Attack

A Game Trippy Enough for Timothy Leary

Still On the Waterfront

Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

The New Disaster Movie

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

'Scary Movie 4'

All's Wells That Ends Welles: Pal and Spiellberg Trade War Stories

Spielberg's New York State of Mind

NY Mirror

Armageddon It

Battlefield Earth: Spielberg’s traumatic blockbuster destroys the world in order to save it

Mystery Scientology Theater

They came from within: How War of the Worlds anticipated the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard

Wayne's World 3

The most inscrutable experiment in radio since 'War of the Worlds,' broadcasting from Wamego, KS

The Rosebud Express

Fake It So Real

The Curse of the Blair Witch

Welles of Loneliness

Love and War in Louisville

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

Letters

Letters

Virgin Territory