Basketball Wives, Episode 4: Fiestas, Fists, and Food Stamps

Everyone catch last night’s episode of Basketball Wives? Looks like Suzie Ketcham is alone in this Basketball Wives game. Gloria Govan is leaving her ass for L.A., and Tami Roman said she pretty much would rather hang with Shaunie O’Neal, Evelyn Lozada, and Jennifer Williams over Suzie any day of…

White Material depicts a chaotic race war

White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is unspecified. The subject is the collapse of an unnamed West African state, and the protagonist, Maria, a French settler unflinchingly played by Isabelle Huppert, is the proprietress of a family-run coffee plantation. White Material…

Now playing: Casino Jack and Country Strong

The late George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “You’re either a big-leaguer or you’re a slave clawing your way onto the C train,” the avid antihero (Kevin Spacey) tells his mirrored reflection in the pre-credit sequence;…

Bad Girl Club‘s Catya Washington Behind Bars, Again

As opposed to Basketball Wives, where the featured ladies aren’t actually wives, the women of Bad Girls Club Miami are living up to their show name by being up to no good. In November, we told you how Catya Washington (AKA Cat or as she was known “The Elite Player”)…

Basketball Wives, Episode 3: When Broads Break Bread

On last night’s episode three of Basketball Wives, a lunch finally comes to blows. Suzie and Gloria’s nice day of lunching to discuss the ladies turns into a full-blown ambush by the Wives. The highlight of the entire episode had to be when Suzie explains to Gloria that the ladies…

Film Review: In The Freebie, The Seven-Year Itch Is a Bitch

Annie and Darren’s love for one another is genuine and their friendship deep. But trouble seems to be brewing beneath the surface. The loving wedded couple, it seems, have lost their lust for each other. Instead of consummating a spontaneous moment of passion, the two begin debating when the last time…

Four Lions Puts the Fun Back in Terrorism

Terrorists are people too. And they can be as idiotic as the rest of us, if not more so. In the film Four Lions, which opens at the Cosford Cinema on Friday, British humorist Chris Morris compiles a troupe of fictional wannabe jihadists a la Three Stooges and Marx Brothers…

The Freebie : a couple takes a break from fidelity

In The Freebie, writer and director Katie Aselton (who also plays Annie) gives us an affable, thought-provoking glimpse into the dilemma every married or long-time couple faces: What do you do when the thrill is gone? Can you break your fidelity for a moment, scratch the itch, and come out…

Gulliver’s Travels: now playing

Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has spent a decade stuck in the mailroom of a New York City newspaper before blundering and plagiarizing his way into a travel-writing assignment that lands him, en route to the Bermuda Triangle, in Lilliput. Black’s playing a “Gulliver,” but while sharing disproportionate size with Jonathan…

Top 2010 Films vs. the Ones You Actually Watched

We recently released our picks for the ten best films of 2010, written by LA Weekly film critic Karina Longworth. And as soon as we saw Greenberg (the pick for the second best film of the year), we knew this list was trouble. Was Greenberg good? Yes. Was it also…

Top movies to watch in 2011

Since we’re a heartbeat away from being sick-to-death of this month’s crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we’ve decided to cast a quick glance forward to the ten 2011 films we’re excited to see. We’ve seen some of the below, and make no promises for the others, but, as ever, we’re hopeful…

Ten best films of 2010

10. Enter the Void I can’t fully condone director Gaspar Noe’s trip—in my review, I called it a “mashup of the sacred, the profane, and the brain-dead,” and I stand by that. But I’ve come to appreciate its stoner stoopidness as part of its charm. And nothing else in 2010…

The King’s Speech shows how therapy saved the monarchy

A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza, The King’s Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor. The story is a good one: shy, young prince helped by irascible wizard to break an…

New in film: True Grit

Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers’ True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and seriously ambitious, returning the Coens to the all-American sagebrush and gun smoke landscape that has best nourished their wise-guy sensibility. This perverse buddy tale, in…

Danielle Staub Gets Own Show. Will It Be Worse Than Jersey Shore?

We as a nation adore everything New Jersey. We love the people, their establishments, and and anything regarding the Garden State. And don’t try to deny it: We all helped Mike “The Situation” make $5 million dollars this year.  And one thing we can’t get enough of: New Jersey’s housewives…