Before anything else, here’s how dumb things get in A Good Day to Die Hard, which is being sold as a bang-bang movie sequel so that nobody catches onto its true nature: a black-ops experiment testing the human faculty for discovering coherent patterns in unrelated shards of image. Late in…
Beware of Mr. Baker: Great Drumming Almost Excuses Ginger Baker’s Dickishness
Ah, the life of a Real Housewife: The fortune, the (questionable) fame, the furry crotches and bitter battles with preservationists. And now, the free plastic surgery. Radar Online reports that the Bravo network, home to the Real Housewives franchises including The Real Housewives of Miami, paid for one of its…
More good news for the filmmakers of Borscht Corp: Four selections from this year’s Borscht Film Festival have been selected to screen at SXSW in Austin next month. There are just 34 films in the festival’s Narrative Shorts category, so having five of them come from Borscht helps to validate…
Just one week ago, 30 Rock broke the hearts of TV critics, everyone on the Internet, and roughly four dozen viewers when it ended with a near-perfect series finale. But tonight, those same people are rejoicing. Community, another little-watched but critically beloved NBC sitcom, is returning to our TV screens…
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As Luck Would Have It Movie Review: Accessible but Forgettable
Melissa McCarthy Is Not Your Best Friend Anymore
Side Effects Movie Review: May Induce Queasy Pleasure
Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns Talk Side Effects and Collaboration
As we reported earlier, Real Housewives of Miami cast member Lisa Hochstein really doesn’t appreciate it when you say nasty things about her on the Internet. But that hasn’t stopped her from trashing preservationists seeking control over Hochstein’s Star Island home, which they say is historic. Hochstein, with her husband,…
If you’ve ever soothed the heartache of a breakup with a pint of Half Baked or Chunky Monkey, you have Ben Cohen to thank. Cohen, half of America’s most beloved ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, doesn’t just make a mean frozen dessert. He’s also an activist, supporting Democratic candidates…
With shows like Pit Boss and Pit Bulls and Parolees as part of their programming, Animal Planet has done more than a little to showcase the work of pit bull rescuers and change misconceptions about the breed. And in their latest effort to promote these pups, the cable channel has…
Cult film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky burst on to the art film world in the late 1960s with a style of cinema that offended audience members and frustrated film programmers. His debut film Fando and Lis premiered at the Acapulco Film Festival in 1968 and caused a riot in the mostly…
The Super Bowl isn’t just for beer-swilling jocks. In fact, it’s the one day of the year when nerdy film types join their beef-brained rivals in the crowd around the TV screen. But not for the game — for the movie previews. The pauses between plays during the Super Bowl…
A Brief History of Movie Characters Getting Whacked in the Balls
The Great Director Walter Hill Brings a Bullet (and Ideas) to Your Head
Stand Up Guys Movie Review: A Blow to Al Pacino’s Legacy
