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The Week in DVR: Ron Howard's Best, a Heavenly Father Goes Bad and Chefs Head to Napa!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:36:55 -0500

Monday: Home for the Holidays

Is anyone out there suffering from a little post traumatic thanksgiving stress disorder? We understand! And, we suggest you check out 1995’s Home for the Holidays. Holly Hunter stars as a single parent (her daughter is played by Claire Danes, who mainly just chatters about wanting to lose her virginity!) who was recently fired after having an affair with her boss and slinks home for Thanksgiving. Her...

New Moon Has Enough Bite For Us!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:41:47 -0500

So, Twilight Saga: New Moon. Where to start with this Twilight frenzy? Well, for starters, I--and the 13-year-old girl that will forever live inside me--totally get it! In the first film (and book) of the Stephenie Meyer series we were introduced to Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), as tortured and star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet (which is also the book that we see beside Bella's pillow in the opening scenes of New...

The Woman Who Takes Clooney To Task

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:44 -0500

"Think of me as you with a vagina,” Vera Farmiga’s character Alex says to George Clooney’s Ryan at one point in Up in the Air, the new film from Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking), opening in theaters Dec. 4. “It’s a killer line,” Ms. Farmiga said recently, drumming her fingers absently in a conference room overlooking the lights of Times Square. “That’s the line I had to stand in front of a...

Woo-Woo, Woo!

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:55 -0500

Red Cliff
Running time 148 minutes
Written by John Woo, Chan Khan, Kuo Cheng and Sheng Heyu
Directed by John Woo
Starring Tony Leung, Zhang Fengyi, You Yong, Chang Chen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chiling Lin

Red Cliff is two and a half hours long and in Chinese. These facts may be off-putting, but don’t be deterred: Red Cliff is, in fact, an action-packed epic so large in scale that it makes Braveheart seem unambitious.

Director John...

She's So Bad, She's Good!

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:53:01 -0500

Broken Embraces
Running time 128 minutes
Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Tamar Novas

Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, is one of those happy moviegoing experiences where you get a bit of everything—love, sex, style, wit, thrills and mystery. And if you somehow weren’t already sold on the ridiculous gorgeousness of Penélope Cruz, this should do the trick.

This is a film about...

The Week in DVR: Edward Norton is a Rock Star! Plus, Project Runway Finale, Penelope Cruz and The Notebook

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:29:26 -0500

Monday: House

It’s been interesting to watch the writers on this show try different things to see if they can breathe new life into a program that is plagued by complaints that it's the same week to week. We understand the argument--there tends to be a fairly unbreakable formula (strange patient and symptoms/three or four wrong diagnoses/almost death/cured by the brilliance of Dr. House in the last three to four minutes). That said, eat...

Anderson Makes Fantastic Fox

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:02:30 -0500

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Running time 87 minutes
Written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
Directed by Wes Anderson
Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Wes Anderson’s take on Fantastic Mr. Fox, the classic 1970 book by Roald Dahl, is full of the whimsy and cleverness one expects from the man behind Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, but it manages to escape the treacly feelings of overt twee-ness that have plagued...

Apocalypse (and How!)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:04 -0500

2012
Running time 158 minutes
Written by Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt

We Were Warned. So sayeth the tag line for the latest from Roland Emmerich, master of destruction. And you know what? We were! Back with the first trailer in 2008, it was clear that 2012 was gunning for the title of most-massive-most-deaths-most-destruction-in-a-movie ever: earthquakes, fiery...

The Week in DVR: Is Modern Family the Best New Fall Show? (Yes!) Plus, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and the return of Friday Night Lights

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:37:23 -0400

Monday: The Painted Veil

File this under movies not enough people went to see: 2006’s The Painted Veil is a haunting drama, based on the (excellent) W. Somerset Maugham novel. The film stars Edward Norton and Naomi Watts as a British couple in the midst of marital strife, who go to a small Chinese village during a cholera outbreak. We’re pretty sure it’s one of the more ingenious take-revenge-on-your-cheating-wife plots ever; it...

Wild Thing, I Wish I Loved You

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:16:54 -0400

Where the Wild Things Are
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris Cooper

I’m the first to admit that I went into Where the Wild Things Are with perhaps too high expectations. I blame part of this on the most excellent trailer—remember that teaser, released back in March,...

The Week in DVR: Dave Letterman's Show Must Go On! Plus, Woody Allen, Paul Rudd, Tim Daly, and Patrick Swayze (RIP)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:20:07 -0400

Monday: The Late Show With David Letterman

All eyes will be on the big guy tonight, the first show since Dave Letterman’s announcement last Thursday sent the world into a weird whipped up frenzy (Friday night’s show, with Larry David, was taped before the scandal broke). Call us crazy, but as far as what Mr. Letterman does in his private life, who cares? We’re actually more impressed at how badass he...

What to See at the New York Film Festival

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:46:21 -0400

Since 1963, the New York Film Festival has remained a quaintly stubborn institution tucked away in (now fully renovated!) Alice Tully Hall. Its mission from the very beginning, in the oft-sighed-over days when Richard Roud ran the show, was simple: screen roughly 25 features handpicked by a distinguished panel. Let’s be clear, these people do not give a hoot about Megan Fox, glitz or tabloid glamour; nor do they—unlike other festivals—award prizes. Getting in...

Fall's Best Includes Drew, Clooney and a Juno Reunion

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:12:33 -0400

Some people like autumn for the leaves changing colors—for us, it’s the quality movies piling up in theaters between Labor Day and New Year’s.

Clive Owen makes us remember why we liked him so much in the first place (who told him to do The International? Fired!) in The Boys Are Back, in which he plays a sportswriter who becomes a single parent after a tragedy, adapted from Simon Carr’s memoir (Sept....

Some Thoughts On Last Night's Emmy Awards

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:49:31 -0400

It’s been months since we’ve had a glitzy Hollywood-loves-itself-so-much awards show, and yet…it’s sort of hard to get worked up about the Emmys, isn’t it? We appreciated the hard work host Neil Patrick Harris was putting in up there – apparently it’s a law now that every awards show must start with a clever singing and dancing number -- but there was a moment…somewhere around 9:09 (and a note to future show...

The Week in DVR: Fall's Back! It's the start of the season for Gossip Girl, The Biggest Loser and The Office

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:22:31 -0400

MONDAY:Gossip Girl

OMFG! It really must be Fall, because our DVR runneth over with all the shows coming back this week (thank you, universe). Tonight, it’s the recession-proof Gossip Girl with season three. Most of the gang are in college now (though we can’t keep it straight how many of these guys have now “opted” to go to NYU instead of Yale – this play, btw, was totally trail-blazed by Andrea Zuckerman way back...

The Other Star of Bright Star

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:41:05 -0400

This Friday, audiences at the Toronto Film Festival will get to see Bright Star, the latest from writer-director Jane Campion, a breathtakingly beautiful film about the doomed love affair between 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, the outspoken girl next door. Undoubtedly, the already-buzzy chatter about the film, building since its premiere and positive notices at Cannes, will turn to its Oscar chances (as Labor Day inevitably marks the time to stow...

No Impact Man Left an Impression on Me!

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:25:18 -0400

No Impact Man
Running time 90 minutes
Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein
Starring Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin

I thought for sure that No Impact Man was going to drive me nuts. After all, the concept—New York City–based writer Colin Beavan tries to live a year without any environmental impact, meaning no electricity, no trash, no automotive transportation—is just the kind of thing that screams, “I’m doing a stunt and writing a blog...

9 Isn't Quite a Revolution

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:20:34 -0400

9
Running time 79 minutes
Written by Pamela Pettler
Directed by Shane Acker
Starring Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connolly, Crispin Glover

In 2004, a UCLA film student named Shane Acker created an 11-minute animated short called 9 that people lost their minds over. It earned him an Academy Award nomination and brought all sorts of interest from established filmmakers like Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted),...

The Week in DVR: It's Movie Week! Young SJP, Scary Michael Pitt, and Jack Nicholson Goes Wolf!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:43:33 -0400

Monday: Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Oh 1985, aren’t you just that gift that keeps on giving! Take our inner pre-teen favorite, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. That’s right – it’s not just a Cyndi Lauper song, it’s a fun dance movie starring all sorts of random celebrities. Playing Janey, an army brat with dreams of making it on a local TV dance program (imaginatively titled Dance TV), is...

Patton Oswalt Scores a Touchdown

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:01:37 -0400

Big Fan
Running time 85 minutes
Written and directed by Robert Siegel
Starring Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Rapaport

Here’s a little movie opening this weekend that might get overshadowed by some of the shlocky, studio-dump features coming our way at the end of August (we’re talking about you, The Final Destination and Halloween II), but it’s one that is very much worth seeing. Big Fan, starring Patton Oswalt, is one of those rare films...

He's Mega-Twee, But We Love Him Anyway

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:28:24 -0400

"Have you seen the show?” asked Jason Schwartzman, via phone from his home in Los Angeles late last week. “I haven’t yet, not really. I’m just sitting here in a cocoon … not of anticipation … what would you call it? I’m feeling right now that something is in the oven and I’ve been cooking it all day. I set it out on the table and you’ve eaten it but I haven’t even tasted...

Jason Schwartzman Goes To The Eye Doctor!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:27:20 -0400

Sometimes actors are really fun! And sometimes we can't find room in our articles to fit all the wonderfulness in. Take, for example, this very interesting exchange we had with Jason Schwartzman recently while talking about his new role on HBO's Bored to Death. (Read our coverage of the show here.)

JS: Um, this is such an amazing interview already because I just have come from the optometrist, and my eyes are completely dilated. I’m...

The Week in DVR: Anna Wintour Is On Dave! Plus, Models, The Brat Pack, And Daniel Day-Lewis

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:10:03 -0400

Monday: Late Night With David Letterman

We just can’t wait to see how the big guy handles his lead guest: Anna Wintour. The ever-elegant and chilly editor in chief of Vogue is mysterious, terrifyingly powerful and—even with magazines gasping for existence—as close to royalty in certain publishing circles as you are going to get. But with the release of the documentary The September Issue, a behind-the-curtains look at how the fashion...

District 9 Blew My Mind!

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:19:07 -0400

District 9
Running time 112 minutes
Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt

Consider District 9 to be the anti–G.I. Joe (a movie that I saw, unfortunately—I truly wish with all my heart I could somehow go back in time and get those two hours of my life back). District 9 was made on a relatively lean budget ($30 million), with no well-known actors...

Five More Oscar Hopefuls You Shouldn’t Count Out!

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:12:32 -0400

There are just too many promising-looking films vying for Academy voters this year—don’t forget to factor in some of these pics:

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos): This film pairs the great Pedro Almódovar with his favorite leading lady–muse Penélope Cruz in a thriller about a blind writer (Lluís Homar) who must heal his wounds from the past. (Dec. 11, Sony Pictures Classic)

White Ribbon (Das weiße Band): Michael Haneke rebounds from the...

A Very Early Oscar Forecast

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:12:03 -0400

Yes, we know it’s way too early to be thinking about the 2010 Oscars (Or is it? You know Hollywood started a year ago.) And no, we haven’t seen 90 percent of the Big! Fall! Movies! But that doesn’t mean we can’t predict how the rest of the year will shake out. With the announcement that the Academy has decided to expand the Best Picture nominations from five to a head-scratching 10, things might...

Sterling Cooper's Silver Fox Speaks!

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:32:09 -0400

John Slattery—Emmy-nominated for playing Mad Men’s other irresistible cad, Roger Sterling—talks to The Observer about good writing (Katherine Heigl, please take notes!), cigarettes and the secrets he won’t tell us about in season three.

Are you getting sick of people gushing to you about how great Mad Men is and how excited they are for it to come back on the air? [Season three—for those who have just awoken from a coma —begins Aug. 16...

The Week in DVR: Harrison Ford Sure Looks Good in Amish Country! Plus, Spike Lee's Inside Man and Ian Curtis' Pretty Biopic

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:52:18 -0400

Monday: The Bachelorette

All the rose petals, candles, sky-diving, cringing hands-over-face-embarrassment and general buffoonery has led us to tonight, when our Bachelorette finally picks her man on the big finale. And yes, we are sort of un-ironically excited! Who will Jillian, former hot dog connoisseur and hot tub slut, choose? Will it be Ed, the beefy and terribly dressed...

The Ugly Truth About The Ugly Truth

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:10:37 -0400

Sometimes it’s hard to hate Katherine Heigl. Of course, it should be easy—the Grey’s Anatomy actress has made a practice out of doing things that almost seemed designed to make her fans turn against her (withdrawing her name from Emmy competition because she felt she was not given awards-worthy material from the writers of the show that made her famous, or criticizing Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up—a.k.a. the film that made her a movie...

The Week in DVR: Is That Matthew Perry on The Bachelorette? Plus, Julie Christie at Her Finest and Charlie Sheen as a High School Dreamboat

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:34:31 -0400

Monday: The Bachelorette

We justify watching this show by pretending to be engaged in a sociological experiment: Why is it just so much more weird and squirmy when it’s the woman who has to choose from a bunch of dudes as opposed to some blockhead picking among a gaggle of silicone? We haven’t figured it out yet, but tonight should be interesting as bachelorette Jillian Harris takes her final three men to Hawaii—...

Can Two Straight Men Make a Gay Porno?

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:26:54 -0400

Humpday
Running time 95 minutes
Written and directed by Lynn Shelton
Starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore

It’s interesting that Humpday, a movie as sneakily taboo-nudging and subversive in a lot of the same ways as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno, opens on the same weekend but with a lot less fuss. The film begins with Ben (Mark Duplass) and his wife (Alycia Delmore) sharing an intimate happily married moment before his college friend...

Bah, Brüno! We Miss Borat!

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:20:29 -0400

Brüno
Running time 83 minutes
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer and Jeff Schaffer
Directed by Larry Charles
Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten

So here’s the problem: How exactly should one judge the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, Brüno? Should it be critiqued on its success in shocking people (a resounding yes), or for the queasy, teetering-toward-darkness comedy that incites waves of nervous laughter (yes, again), or for the insane...

We Say Oui Oui to Marion Cotillard!

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:10:05 -0400

I saw Public Enemies last night—and plenty of critics have already weighed in about how cool and beautiful and entertaining the movie is (Rex Reed called it “one of the best movies of the year”). But here’s what I took away from it: my total and unabashed girl-crush on Marion Cotillard is still going and stronger than ever.

The 33-year-old actress (and, hooray to her being born in the mid-’70s!) first...

The Week in DVR: Start Watching The West Wing From the Beginning! Plus, Matthew Goode Is Great in Brideshead Revisited and Liv Tyler Sure Loves Italy

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:10:46 -0400

Monday: The West Wing

Isn’t it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Don’t get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesn’t love Alan Alda? But there’s absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin's rule. Today brings us the pilot episode, introducing us to the fast-talking, fast-walking characters—each one unbelievably witty and flawed...

Am I Dumb For Not Understanding Transformers?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:10:42 -0400

It’s been well over 12 hours since I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and I must say I’m not sure my audio/visual senses have quite recovered. It is almost two-and-a-half-hours long; the most common reaction when people spilled out of the packed theater in Times Square last night (some cheering, others limping out of their chairs like they had just undergone great robot battle) was a head-shake or ear clap as one does...

Smith Misses

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:22:28 -0400

Commencement
By J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, 320 pages, $24.95

One of the characters in J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel Commencement thinks of her first year out of college (a.k.a. the real world) as her freshman year of life. It’s one of those funny-’cause-it’s-truisms that most of us can relate to: It’s awfully hard to shake the foundations laid in those four germinal years.

Ms. Sullivan’s book revolves around four women who graduated from the...

Hold the Geritol! Sandy Bullock Still Has Sass

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:07:26 -0400

Okay, let’s start (for a change) with some math. Sandra Bullock will be turning 45 this July and Ryan Reynolds is 32. And yet, amazingly, in The Proposal, their age difference is not the main focal point of their romantic hijinks. The premise is a simple one (one can practically hear the pitch in some executive’s Burbank office): Ms. Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a high-powered book editor feared by everyone she comes in contact...

Get Your Summer Movies!

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:45:36 -0400

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Sara Vilkomerson's Third Stringer: Space Oddity

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:07:39 -0400

Considering we’ve always been a bit, shall we say, wary (read: terrified) of both outer space and robots, imagine our surprise to discover just how enjoyable a moviegoing experience Moon is. Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an astronaut who is close to completing a three-year contract with a company that mines Helium-3—one of the main sources of energy for our little planet, spinning hundreds of thousands of miles below. He desperately misses his wife...

Page Six Goes to the Beach

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:33:00 -0400

Mercury in Retrograde
By Paula Froelich
Atria, 272 pp., $24

Bring on the breezy beach reads! Page Six’s Paula Froelich puts a good deal of fun, wit and observation about New York City (which she no doubt picked up on the job) into her debut novel, and all without a smidgen of mean-spiritedness. Seriously!

Mercury in Retrograde follows three women—Penelope Mercury (hence the title), a young, go-getter reporter at the New York Telegraph (hmmm, whatever...

Hit of the Week: The Hangover

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:49:04 -0400

We’re guessing this weekend’s release of The Hangover will be an exercise in everyone finding and embracing their inner frat boy. Do not try and resist! The set-up—four dudes go to Vegas for a bachelor party that goes awry—could have easily devolved into clichéd territory. But, thankfully, there is no “Vegas, baby, Vegas” moment. Instead, the film’s funny action takes place after the debauchery, with the boys waking up to chickens and tigers and...

Sara Vilkomerson's Third Stringer: Baby on Board

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:17:54 -0400

It is something of a relief to find Away We Go nestled in theaters among the summer season blockbustery craziness. It’s one of those rare movies that manages to be both wickedly funny and also incredibly poignant to the point where, yes, tears might be shed. Written by novelists and real-life married couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida and directed by Sam Mendes, the film revolves around a happily unwed couple (finally!), played by...

The Week in DVR: We Dare You Not To Cry During Broadcast News. Plus, Richard Dreyfuss, Movie Star?

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:16:43 -0400

Monday: Sense and Sensibility

Forget about Bridget Jones’s Diary or Love, Actually (but just for a minute!). This 1995 Ang Lee film is about as satisfying a romantic film as you are going to get, compliments of Jane Austen (natch). There’s the always-fabulous Emma Thompson (who wrote the screenplay) as poor good-girl Elinor Dashwood, the sensible sister as opposed to Kate Winslet’s tempestuous loves-to-walk-even-when-it’s-raining Marianne. Hugh Grant is...

Dear Bradley Cooper: Please Just Play Jerks

Fri, 29 May 2009 08:12:37 -0400

Do you remember the first time you became aware of Bradley Cooper? I sure do. It was sometime during the first episode of Alias, circa 2001, and Mr. Cooper played Will Tippen, best friend to Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Briscow. What I remember is being distracted from the increasingly complicated plot by the fact that an actor as handsome as he had been cast in the dreaded “best...

SNL Songstress Tries Serious Acting

Tue, 26 May 2009 19:13:46 -0400

Sitting in a quiet corner of the Mercer Hotel recently, Saturday Night Live alumna Maya Rudolph, curls demurely pinned back, was dressed in a soft pink sweater over a black dress that just barely showed the swell of her second pregnancy with her long-term partner, Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of There Will Be Blood. “I will be ordering breakfast throughout the day,” she warned.

Ms. Rudolph needs the energy. At 36, she is...

Sara Vilkomerson's Third Stringer: Buddha Me Up

Tue, 26 May 2009 17:47:06 -0400

After all the scary future robots and Trekkies and Ben Stiller at the museum, you’d be forgiven if you were looking for a meditative break of some sort. On June 3, the Film Forum premieres Unmistaken Child, a documentary chronicling the search for a reincarnated Tibetan master. We’ll be honest: We know nothing about Tibetan Buddhism (beyond its occasional outbreak on the terrible N.Y.C. dating scene), nor its precepts of reincarnation, so this film...

Dear American Idol, I Already Miss You!

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:45:12 -0400

So, we have our winner on American Idol: Kris Allen. At a certain point, midway through the incredibly-long-seeming two-plus-hour finale last night, I began to get a feeling this was the way it was going to go down, and then it went. Sigh. Ever since that terrible Gokey mess got voted off, I told myself it didn’t matter who won — the amazing sex alien from planet Glitter, Adam Lambert, or the pocket-sized...

Sara Vilkomerson's Third Stringer: Ride 'Em, Wilson!

Tue, 19 May 2009 14:12:15 -0400

Is it weird that of all the great Owen Wilson screen performances out there—we’re including The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander and Marley and Me—we kinda love him the best as the itsy-bitsy miniature cowboy Jedediah in these Night at the Museum movies? We can’t explain it. … The man says “flapjack” and we’re sold. So, yes, we’re talking about Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Following up on the immensely successful 2006 film,...

Week in DVR: XOXO Gossip Girl! Idol Final! Plus, Hot Jude Law and Furry Fox

Mon, 18 May 2009 07:54:32 -0400

Monday: Gossip Girl

OMFG you guys! It’s the Gossip Girl season-two finale! And sheesh, what a long and crazy ride it has been … hmmm, we can’t really remember a single continuing plot point! But tonight the you-know-what will really hit the fan when Gossip Girl sends out a “scandalous” email as the kids graduate from high school. Will Chuck Bass be that guy not wearing any clothes under his gown? Will Jenny try to...

The Soderbergh Experience

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:08:43 -0400

"A few months ago, my wife said, ‘Look at this Twitter from Sasha,’” said the director Steven Soderbergh recently while discussing his new film, The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey. “It said, ‘I’m on my way to fuck so-and-so porn-star woman.’ I told her I think porn stars should be the only people that Twitter. Now that’s a good use of technology.”

The 46-year-old director, responsible for such seminal films...