Tattoo Nation documents California's romance with ink
Tattoo Nation documentarian Eric Schwartz isn't inked himself — "I'm nicknamed 'The Virgin,' " he admits — but when he started pho...
View ArticleISteve gives the iFinger to the iCompetition
In the rush to lead the pack, writer-director Ryan Perez, a UCLA grad and veteran of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theater, and who has been an ...
View ArticleStar Trek Into Darkness is basically Paradise Lost in Space
Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that's not...
View ArticleJoss Whedon on comic books and Shakespeare
After completing five months of principal photography on The Avengers, Joss Whedon flew back to Los Angeles and threw himself a welcome-home party. As...
View ArticleIn The East, Brit Marling takes on hipster hobos with humor
You're either with Brit Marling or you're against her. The 29-year-old blond filmmaker (who describes herself on Twitter as a tree climber/actor/write...
View ArticleThe "Anti-Casting" of Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in Prince Avalanche Marks an...
When David Gordon Green introduced Paul Rudd to Emile Hirsch, the two actors didn't click. It was an awkward seafood dinner. "Emile just started talki...
View ArticleLake Bell's In a World... Asks: Why Aren't Women Hired for Movie Trailer...
Lake Bell can do incredible things with her tongue. She can touch her nose, twist it to both sides, and fold it backward as flat as an omelet. In a s...
View ArticleBrian De Palma on how and why he made Passion.
Brian De Palma had a good reason for remaking the erotic French thriller Love Crime: He could do it better. "I think it's very dangerous to remake a ...
View ArticleThe pumped-up Prisoners nearly gets lost in its own plot twists
If five Oscar nominees lose two young girls in the woods, will their wailing make a sound? That's the key question of Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve's pr...
View ArticleLivin' la vida loca in Machete Kills
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he'd build on the U.S.-Mexico border: twenty feet ...
View ArticleTen Disneyland Tips From the Director Who Secretly Shot a Horror Sex Movie There
What's illegal at Disneyland? Dogs, drugs, alcohol, pamphlets, flags and large coolers. Not listed? Secretly shooting a feature-length movie. But Dis...
View ArticleThe Carrie Remake Is Surprisingly Good
Kimberly Peirce changes almost nothing in her rallying remake of Brian De Palma’s classic about a troubled telekinetic teenager. She doesn&rsquo...
View ArticleBad Grandpa's Kid Actor Outshines Johnny Knoxville
Think Little Miss Sunshine could have used an elastic penis? Behold: Bad Grandpa, in which a widower and an eight-year-old drive across the country hi...
View ArticleThor: The Dark World keeps the Marvel machine going
Among the Avengers, Thor should reign supreme. Sure, Captain America is the de facto leader, but even he — like the others — is just a jac...
View ArticleMichel Gondry Picks Noam Chomsky's Brain
Michel Gondry likes video stores. He is, after all, the director of the ultimate VHS sonnet, Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def re-create...
View ArticleLooking for ’80s action? Homefront almost delivers
Once upon a time — the 1980s — you could walk into a movie theater any day of the year, plop down a few bucks, and watch one man kick anot...
View ArticleThe Best of 2013, Take Two
I could write a Shakespearean sonnet about each film on my Top 10 of 2013, but we know we’re all here for the agreements and arguments. (Plus, h...
View ArticleJoaquin Phoenix: He's (Still) Still Here
In Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi romance, Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a divorcé who rebounds by falling in love with his smartphone. On a recen...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an uplifting crowd-pleaser
In the twenty years since Reality Bites, his directorial debut, Ben Stiller has metastasized from sketch-comedy lunatic to Generation X darling to blo...
View ArticleMarilyn Manson Convinces as a Nerdy Teen in Wrong Cops
When he was thirteen, Marilyn Manson — then just Christian schoolkid Brian Warner of Canton, Ohio — would hide out in the basement while h...
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