Revisiting Hours: How Walk Hard Almost Destroyed the Musical Biopic
Every Friday, were recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. Were c…
Help Fund Intimate DJ AM Doc With Indiegogo Campaign
Adam DJ AM Goldstein helped revolutionize DJing before his tragic 2009 death, but his life was also filled with tragedy and depression. Kevin Kerslak…
Thanks for Sharing
Sex addiction can be a subject for drama ( Shame ) or a comedy with dramatic undertones. That would be Thanks for Sharing , starring Mark Ruffalo, a fine actor in rare form, as Adam, whos in a 12-ste…
First Reformed: Paul Schrader on Faith, Hope and Returning to Form
Its a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, and Paul Schrader is asking for forgiveness as an American flag flaps outside his window. If he appears distant…
If Beale Street Could Talk Review: Barry Jenkins Ode to Love and Heartbreak
Love intimate, familial and fraternal infuses director Barry Jenkins ravishing adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel about a battered romance …
Going in Style Review: Remake of Cute-Coot Crime Comedy Could Use Some Viagra
If you want to hang with a trio of old-coot charmers, you could do worse than Going in Style, a comic softball that, for the price of a movie ticke…
Should Movie Theaters Allow Texting?
The latest idea out of Silicon Valley is one that means to bring new audiences into dying movie theaters: Raise the lights a little and allow smartph…
The Beguiled Review: Sofia Coppolas Southern Gothic Is Pure Estrogenic Bliss
When a shirtless Clint Eastwood starred in The Beguiled in 1971 he played a wounded Yankee soldier who finds refuge from the Civil War on the groun…
See Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace in American Crime Story Trailer
I will not allow that man, that nobody, to kill my brother twice, says Donatella Versace, portrayed by Penelope Cruz, in the new trailer for FXs The …
10 Best Jokes From the James Franco Roast
James Franco faced a comedic firing squad last night during Comedy Centrals Roast of James Franco . Seth Rogen led a whos who of the actors friends a…
Michael Parks, Twin Peaks Actor and Tarantino Favorite, Dead at 77
Michael Parks, a character actor who enjoyed a career renaissance in recent decades thanks to high profile roles in films by Quentin Tarantino, Rober…
Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and Young Frankenstein Star, Dead at 83
Gene Wilder, the comedian known to a generation as Willy Wonka and an icon thanks to his works with Mel Brooks on The Producers, Blazing Saddles and…
How Black Bodies Liberated the Movies of 2016
Back in January of this year, in the middle of the viral #OscarsSoWhite fiasco and an increasingly heated national discussion on race in America, a m…
RZA Honors Paul Walker With Destiny Bends
Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA has just released a song he wrote in honor of Paul Walker, the Fast & Furious actor who died in a car accident Saturday. …
Kate Winslet Refused to Thank Harvey Weinstein at 2009 Oscars: That Was Deliberate
Kate Winslet made a statement with silence during her acceptance speech at the 2009 Oscars, refusing to thank producer Harvey Weinstein after winning…
Upcoming Aaliyah Biopic to Include R. Kelly Marriage Details
The upcoming Lifetime network biopic on late R&B artist Aaliyah will include information about her contentious relationship with R. Kelly, theNew…
Jack Nicholson: A Singular Guy
J ack Nicholson is ambling down the stairs of his place on Mulholland Drive, in Los Angeles, a little late, having just zipped up. Hes lived here for more than 30 years a two-story stucco-type pad b…
