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The Worlds Smartest American Idol Fans A Roundtable (17 March 07:41) |
| Who cares what Simon, Randy, Kara, or Ellen think? We created our own American Idol panel, with four of the smartest judges we could find.
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TV Review Who Do You Think You Are (13 March 04:14) |
| 'Who Do You Think You Are?' NBC's new geneaology-themed reality show, dredges up details about celebrity's ancestors. How race casts a gruesome shadow on the results.
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Skinheads on TV (12 March 10:07) |
| Harlan is not the charming, genteel Mayberry you'd expect from a small town in Kentucky with a population around 2,000. At least not in , the new FX series starring Timothy Olyphant as Rayla... |
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Matt Damons War Film Green Zone Doesnt Ring True (12 March 03:29) |
| Paul Greengrass's new Iraq film, 'Green Zone,' pays admirable attention to the details of Baghdad. It's the story that's ludicrous.
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Oscars Rumblr We React to the Academy Awards (09 March 01:53) |
| Our staff discusses the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony.
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5 Ways to Fix the Oscar Ceremony (08 March 08:52) |
| This year's ceremony promised something for everybody. So why did it feel like it was meant for nobody?
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A History of Oscar Smear Campaigns (04 March 05:14) |
| With The Hurt Locker in one scandal after another, the mudslinging has never been this bad. And it could only get worse.
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TV Review NBC Family Sitcom Parenthood (04 March 02:19) |
| Forget the Cleavers, the Tanners, and the Cosbys of yore: NBC's family sitcom Parenthood argues that normalcy isn't entertaining. Why we don't buy it.
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Oscars What Happens to the Cast Ballots (27 February 07:38) |
| The world watches the Oscars, but the winners are decided by the fewer than 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Here's what happens to their ballots once they'r... |
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Movie Review Taking the Wonder Out of Wonderland (27 February 04:40) |
| The only way to understand Alice is to use your imagination. Do you even remember how to do that? In our society of Web links, Wikipedia, Facebook, and reality TV, everything and everybody c... |
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Family Guys Palin Lampoon Not Funny (23 February 05:41) |
| 'Family Guy' creator Seth MacFarlane is the latest TV personality to take aim at Sarah Palin. Why the jokes—and his brand of topical humor—fall short.
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Hollywood Goes to Sweden (18 February 10:34) |
| The Swedish film let the right is set during a Nordic winter so bleak that just watching it practically makes your nose run. The two main characters—a lonely, ostracized boy and the creep... |
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John Mayers Racism Shared by Others in Power (17 February 02:15) |
| The worst part of his deplorable Playboy interview? He's just saying what others are thinking.
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TV Review How to Make It In America (16 February 11:23) |
| On reality TV, mundane behavior nets you fame and fortune. When did scripted shows become the standard bearer for America's elbow-grease ethic?
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The Death of the Biopic (12 February 07:42) |
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The Curse of the Great American Novel (05 February 11:56) |
| Ellison died trying to finish his last book. That shouldn't stop you from reading it.
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TVs Newest Hero The CEO (05 February 11:40) |
| Say what you will about CBS, but don't accuse it of safe programming. Sure, the network is overrun with middle-of-the-road fare such as and , but rather than give one of its highly rated dr... |
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QA Director Garry Marshall (05 February 11:15) |
| Marshall directs Julia Roberts—and every other Hollywood actress—in Valentine's Day. He spoke to Ramin Setoodeh.
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Donald Margulies on His New Play (29 January 06:33) |
| ... disaster looks back at us. Donald Margulies talks about his new play on how war correspondents are affected by the conflicts they cover.
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A Prophet Heralds a New Wave of French Auteurs (23 January 01:39) |
| Now Jacques Audiard is poised to become the next native director to move into the global spotlight. His latest film, —a heart-pounding gangster movie set in a French prison—has already r... |
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Jay Leno Does Damage Control (23 January 01:03) |
| How the besmirched dark knight of late-night television can regain his stature—and fans.
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The Hollowness of The Hurt Locker (22 January 11:22) |
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Why Lost Is a Show About Faith (22 January 10:58) |
| In the beginning, Oceanic Flight 815 started shaking somewhere over the Indian Ocean. "My husband keeps reminding me that planes want to be in the air," Rose nervously tells the passenger si... |
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The Terrorist Who Saved 24 (16 January 07:13) |
| In the new season premiere of the real-time terrorist thriller , Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is a former federal agent trying to leave behind his run-and-gun past to spend more time with ... |
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The Disappearance of Gene Hackman (16 January 07:05) |
| Today's Oscar contenders should be thankful Gene Hackman's no longer acting.
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Can American Idol Survive Without Simon (13 January 12:09) |
| It's not just NBC struggling to keep its big stars happy. Fox made an equally risky move by letting Simon Cowell leave American Idol at the end of the season. Welcome to the new reality of n... |
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With the Rise of Art Prizes Everyones a Winner (09 January 11:45) |
| A decade ago, just a handful of awards conferred prestige on artists: the Turner Prize (for British art), the MacArthur (for creative genius in the U.S.), and the Archibald (for portraiture ... |
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Psycho Turns 50 (08 January 08:08) |
| Everything holds up fine in . That's the mystery. After a half century of far more graphic slasher movies, a genre pretty much kicked off by itself, why does this dark little film continue ... |
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Movies Denzel Rescues the Bible (08 January 08:07) |
| In the post-apocalyptic world of the most precious things on earth are a trial-size bottle of shampoo; a cache of hand wipes, individually wrapped; and the last existing copy of the King Ja... |
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Book Review The Computer That Ate the World (08 January 08:06) |
| In a watershed 1909 story, published when science fiction was known still as "scientific romance," E. M. Forster reimagined the Victorian dream of an empire of universal knowledge as a futur... |
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How Avatar Can Beat Titanic (07 January 01:16) |
| James Cameron is king of the box office again, but will his latest eclipse his Titanic success?
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Film The Criterion Collections Dicey Standards (01 January 01:51) |
| This is significant especially because Criterion has done such good work preserving great films. In 2004, the company released a 282-disc box set of its entire collection—making clear just... |
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Design Porn Goes to the Movies (01 January 01:32) |
| See Jane scramble. She's a mother, girlfriend, mistress, gal pal, owner of a thriving patisserie, and therapy patient. Not that you'd pick up oversubscribed vibes if you swung by for a glass... |
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The Life and Hard Times of Arthur Koestler (01 January 01:30) |
| Political commentators today tend to celebrate a certain kind of skepticism promoted by Cold War intellectuals, men who counseled a vigorous response to evil while remaining humbled by the p... |
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Mariah Carey Sleeps in the Nude (01 January 01:21) |
| She was almost booed out of Hollywood after Glitter, but Mariah Carey can act. Really. Don't believe us? Check out the homely, tough-talking social worker in Precious. She spoke to Ramin Set... |
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The Problem With the Follow-up Memoir (01 January 12:30) |
| Yet the serial memoirs keep coming, as publishers continue to gamble on lightning striking twice. It rarely does, especially because the follow-up is often rushed into publication to capital... |
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An Argentine Director Even Argentines Can Love (31 December 11:58) |
| In director Juan José Campanella's 2001 film, (), Ricardo Darín's character, a short-tempered restaurateur, bluntly tells his actor friend during a heated discussion: "I don't watch Argen... |
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Publishers Look to China for the Next Bestseller (31 December 11:48) |
| In recent years, China has increasingly flaunted its soft power, winning notice for its bold contemporary art and epic films featuring flying swordsmen. But when it comes to literature, the ... |
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QA Michael Haneke on Violence The White Ribbon (28 December 09:32) |
| Filmmaker Michael Haneke talks about the brutality of his films, respecting the viewer, and his new movie, The White Ribbon.
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David Ansens Best Movies Performances of 2009 (24 December 03:02) |
| The movies and performances that were most worth watching in 2009.
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Tiger-Stalking In Defense of Our Tabloid Culture (12 December 10:08) |
| In defense of our Brangelina-loving, Jon and Kate–hating, Tiger-taunting, tawdry tabloid culture.
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The Smothering of the Smothers Brothers (12 December 01:41) |
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Heaven on Film (12 December 12:39) |
| Heaven, according to polls, is a place nearly everyone wants to go to, so why don't movies ever remotely capture that yearning? We all carry inchoate visions of heaven around in our heads, b... |
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Zadie Smiths Double Life (10 December 11:25) |
| Zadie Smith's literary criticism is so good, it makes you miss her fiction.
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Jazz Is Dead (10 December 11:24) |
| The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging—if you know where to listen.
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Jazz Is Dead Commercially Long Live Jazz Creatively (10 December 11:24) |
| The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging—if you know where to listen.
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Tourists Journey to Their Favorite Film Locations (03 December 11:31) |
| Other countries are catching on. New Zealand saw dozens of tour operators spring up once the epic trilogy hit theaters. A Lord of the Rings Tours day trip includes a helicopter jaunt of var... |
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Let Heath Ledger Rest in Peace (03 December 10:51) |
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Movie Review The Lovely Bones (01 December 11:10) |
| If anybody could bring to the screen, Peter Jackson would seem a perfect fit. The director of the worldly (teenage girls, murder) and the otherworldly certainly has a vision broad enough ... |
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A New Kind of Bollywood Film (28 November 01:37) |
| Midway through Vishal Bhardwaj's 2009 movie (), the hero is captured by thugs looking to recover $2 million in stolen cocaine. As the goons torture him to find out where he's hidden the dru... |
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