Between a lack of interesting non-Cloud Atlas yellow face stories and the giant megastorm lumbering its way slowly over the entire Eastern United states, the roundup is somewhat slight this week. Because of that, I’ll take this time to really encourage you guys to watch the three short films I’ve posted below. If you...
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The Artist will win this award tomorrow night. Some people will be happy, some people will be livid. Most people will shrug because they haven’t seen it. I will probably shrug even though I have seen it. I liked it as a film. It was fun and whimsical and, most importantly for a gimmick film,...
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Somewhere along the way – probably with the 2005 win for the execrable Crash, because all bad things can eventually be traced back to that piece of shit – this category went very, very wrong. It was on a role for a while there. Once the dominion of Billy Wilder, the Coen brothers and...
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The holiday news lull is officially over, and we’re back into the swing of things with a ton of news and links this week. The biggest film news of the week might be that The White House seems to be siding with the “tech companies” (aka everyone in the world who doesn’t draw an...
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Let’s see how horribly wrong I can get this, shall we? Now, the most obvious part about this whole thing is that the only reason to watch the Golden Globes this year is to see celebrities squirm in their seats, hoping that Ricky Gervais’ caustic-comedic spotlight doesn’t touch on them. Otherwise, it’s the most...
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So it looks as if Deathly Hallows pt II doesn’t quite have the legs it was expected to have after smashing so many opening day, weekend and week records. It looks to be handily beaten by Captain America once the final numbers are released Monday. Of course, Harry Potter has made almost $300m in...
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We’re already a few weeks into the summer movie season and we’re at the point where it is momentarily shifting away from the action blockbusters like Pirates 4 and Thor to the big, dumb comedy (I mean this in the best possible sense) this weekend, with The Hangover II and Kung Fu Panda II,...
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It’s that time of the year again. The special time of the year when we hear about all of these amazing films starring amazing actors, directed by wonderful directors the world over that we have to wait twelve to eighteen months to see. That’s right, the big news of the week was the beginning...
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Woody Allen’s next film, untitled as of now, will begin production this summer in Rome. It will feature a cast of Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page, Roberto Begnini… and Woody Allen? So says, Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood, who posted the tidbit to tease a longer interview she will run...
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Fringe Fest 2013 reviews Arts & Culture: Our top seven picks By Jessica Bryce Young 5/22/2013
Album Review: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Daft Punk ascends to new heights of what-the-fuck on arguably the year's most anticipated release. By M.T. Richards 5/22/2013
Live Active Cultures Arts & Culture: “Naruto” star Maile Flanagan on anime, fan conventions, being a military brat and thanking her wife at the Emmys By Seth Kubersky 5/22/2013
The Survivors Project News: Excerpts from ebook that gives sexual-abuse survivors a chance to tell their stories 5/22/2013
Attorney John Morgan backs marijuana legalization News: Local celeb-attorney is new chair of statewide marijuana advocacy organization United for Care By Billy Manes 4/24/2013
Savage Love COLUMN: Twenty-one-year-old female here. When we were both 14, my first boyfriend took advantage of me. I wanted to explore my sexuality a little, but... By Dan Savage 5/22/2013