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In Evocateur, Morton Downey Jr. Roars Again

Stories We Tell: The Secrets of Sarah Polley’s Mother

The Iran Job: More Than an Underdog Sports Story

Aqui y Alla Is Simple and Elegant

Sightseers: Two Weirdos Find Love in This Jet-Black Comedy

Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: “It’s now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman.” Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and…

Judy Blume’s first novel, The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969, yet it’s only now, 44 years later, that the first big-screen adaptation of her work—Tiger Eyes, based on 1981’s novel of the same name—finally opens in theaters. This is a disgrace. One can…

Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even Stephanie Zacharek’s exhaustive, excellent one.) So, here’s more: Stephanie Zacharek, our lead film critic, and Film Editor Alan Scherstuhl hashing over all the portentous craziness in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel…

In This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco, and a handful of other famous funny people find themselves in the middle of the End Times. After the good people of the world ascend into Heaven via a Star Trek-esque blue beam, everyone else — including pretty much every Hollywood…

It ain’t easy being a hooker. The world’s oldest profession is wet, rough, and taxing as hell — particularly for females. Get your mind out of the gutter. We’re talking about fishing. The ancient sport is the subject of Animal Planet’s newest reality TV competition, Top Hooker. The show pits…

Dating in Miami is hard enough, even if you aren’t a venomous mythical jungle monster who has escaped from a laboratory. But in Spyderwoman, a new movie shot and set in Miami, this is exactly the raw deal faced by Taharai, a half-woman, half-spider (err…spyder?) hybrid from the Amazon. So…

Terence Nance isn’t exactly a household name. But Miami film buffs should recognize his voice from the Miami movie of the year. No, not Pain & Gain — Borscht Film Festival’s Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse. Nance voiced Bosh, AKA Star Prince Akilobataar, in the short. And soon,…

Before Midnight‘s Lovers Face the Darkness

The Purge: Your Family or This Homeless Guy?

Shadow Dancer: Terrorism, Betrayal, and Sacrifice

Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn’t stop Vladimir Putin’s government from arresting three members of the punk collective Pussy Riot, after the group stormed the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the…

Eager young people can’t find jobs; qualified older people can’t find jobs. There’s nothing funny about that, which is exactly why someone ought to be making comedies about it. The Internship, in which downtrodden old-school salespeople Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson enter the 21st century and land internships at Google,…

You knew it’d happen eventually. And you knew it’d probably happen on Lifetime. Anna Nicole Smith, the model, actress, Playmate, reality TV star and all-around troubled lady who died of a drug overdose in Hollywood, Florida, is finally getting the biopic treatment by Lifetime. And from the looks of the…

When we left the Starz original series Magic City at the end of its first season, Judi Silver and Ike wound up in the clink, with Ben eventually springing Judi. Mercedes and Danny finally got around to hooking up with an uncertain future in front of them. And Ben tried…

It’s guaranteed to top many critics’ lists and deserves an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. Frances Ha is the darling breakout indie film of 2013 that only the bitterest critic could loathe. Friday night, at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, the face and soul of that film, Greta Gerwig, will…

“Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich has unearthed for her new documentary Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic. The scene is of Pryor’s last great cock-up just before his last, great comeback. Pacing restlessly before a Hollywood…

Joss Whedon: From Comic Books to Shakespeare