Ten Movies to Watch in 2013

Most of the blathering this year about the death of film and film culture has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as “a beautiful island with a cemetery” following the world premiere of Holy Motors at Cannes…

Kim Kardashian is Pregnant With Kanye West’s Baby (Video)

Kim Kardashian: Just another victim of Miami’s sexy ambiance? After a stint living in North Miami to film her upcoming reality show, Kardashian is reportedly pregnant. Kanye West, who’s been dating Kardashian publicly since March, announced the happy news at his concert in Atlantic City on Sunday night, singing, “Now…

The Ten Best Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the ten so-called best movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I’d have 25 unnumbered slots. I’d cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young, and How to Survive a Plague. And if I were…

Django Unchained Is Quentin Tarantino Most Ambitious Film to Date

Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it’s starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django Unchained, opens on Christmas Day, is famously an analog evangelist: He writes his scripts in longhand; he bans cellphones from his sets, and hasn’t had one of his own in years;…

Marvel Releases Iron Man 3 Holiday Card

Nothing says Merry Christmas like flurries gently falling on Tony Stark. As a token gift to fans of the superhero series, Marvel released a holiday teaser image ahead of Iron Man 3’s 2013 release. The photo shows Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, standing in a snowstorm, sans suit. Obviously…