It might be just days before Thanksgiving (and, btw, when did that happen?), but if you head to a movie theater this weekend, don't be surprised if it feels a little bit like summertime. The box office is littered with big-ticket effects films (the second weekend of 2012), the... READ MORE»
It might be just days before Thanksgiving (and, btw, when did that happen?), but if you head to a movie theater this weekend, don't be surprised if it feels a little bit like summertime. The box office is littered with big-ticket effects films (the second weekend of 2012), the return of a beloved franchise (New Moon) and even a Sandra Bullock movie. You've heard of Christmas in July? Well consider this Independence Day in... READ MORE»
Because all other vampire angles are exhausted on this, the eve of the second Twilight movie's release, today's hot topic is old and/or smart people who like Twilight in spite of themselves. The Washington Post writes that "good, smart, literary women" have succumbed with shame-faced lust to the wiles of Stephenie... READ MORE»
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... READ MORE»
For the most obvious news of the fall, allow us to direct you to a recent Los Angeles Times article about dwindling television ratings. As it turns out, people aren't watching TV like they used to, unless it falls under the moniker of the NCIS franchise (how did that... READ MORE»
Certain situations make us aware of arithmetic eloquence. Two exhibitions, paying homage to series, do just... READ MORE»
By Andrew Rasiej | November 18, 2009 | 12:16 pm
An African-American president has Americans reexamining the way they view their country and its history, and now, a new book leaves readers pondering why slavery did not end with the American... READ MORE»
It’s not the Metropolitan Opera’s fault that its first production of Leoš Janáček’s final opera, From the House of the Dead, arouses more admiration than love. The company has rarely put on a more impeccably pedigreed show: The Met premiere of one of the major works of 20th-century opera, featuring the company debuts of a legendary director, Patrice Chereau, and a legendary conductor, Esa-Pekka... READ MORE»
We’re happy here, for the most part, in our coastal bubble. We know, or at least we’re repeatedly told, on the cable-news stations and in political dialogue, that the rest of the country isn’t like us and doesn’t like us. We joke about how we sometimes visit “America,” in which we certainly don’t live, and we think we’re being ironically clever, appropriating and re-purposing what’s intended as a slur, like gay people adopting “queer,”... READ MORE»
Inge Reist’s father was not interested in the subject of money. A medievalist in the comp lit department at Columbia, he reserved a “certain disdain for business and the stock market,” according to his daughter, and preferred instead to spend his time thinking about more meaningful things. “I think,” Ms. Reist said, “it was just the culture among academics to have this disdain for things that related to... READ MORE»
Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Pauli, the two handsome Italian owners of Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, were sitting recently on a spacious leather banquette in the dining room of their latest venture, Casa Lever, under the watchful Technicolor gaze of 10 original Warhol portraits (Bob Colacello, Robert Mapplethorpe, Giorgio Armani) on the opposite... READ MORE»
"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... READ MORE»
By Michael Miller | November 17, 2009 | 7:17 pm
On the night of Monday, Nov. 16, at the sixth annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards to support emerging designers, Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour stood at the entrance to the back room of Skylight Studios, greeting guests and nominees. Like any good host, she wore a welcoming... READ MORE»
By Marissa Capodanno | November 17, 2009 | 7:15 pm
The New York premiere of director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, doomful tale The Road was conspicuously missing its blond South African star: Charlize Theron. ... READ MORE»
By Chloe Malle | November 17, 2009 | 7:13 pm
“It’s terribly … terrific,” said Pop Art icon James Rosenquist when asked how he was enjoying the party celebrating his new memoir, Painting Below Zero. “What do you... READ MORE»
Red CliffRunning time 148 minutesWritten by John Woo, Chan Khan, Kuo Cheng and Sheng HeyuDirected by John WooStarring 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... READ MORE»
Broken EmbracesRunning time 128 minutes Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar Starring Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Tamar... READ MORE»
A little over a month ago, as the second wave of the great H1N1 hysteria of 2009 began to swell, it seemed like vaccines would be made available to any New Yorker who’d decided he would rather not gamble on contracting the feverish, vomit-inducing, kinda-maybe-sorta-lethal porcine plague. Things didn’t work out that ... READ MORE»
What a week! Or, should I say, “Wart a week!” Yes, a horrid wart! In full view of my public? Can you believe? That’s what I get for trying to avoid the H1N1 virus. What the hell am I talking about? I’ll explain all about Mr. Wart in just a moment. First, let’s talk about something more uplifting and... READ MORE»
Normally you have to be some kind of big shot—or perhaps familiar in the art of bit torrent downloading, which we are not—to get an Academy Awards screener. But today, everyone has the opportunity to go to their local Best Buy or Blockbuster (these places still exist!) and pick up a copy of not one, but two of the potential Best Picture nominees next March: Pixar's Up and the just released Star... READ MORE»
This summer, John Koblin considered the rift between publicity-seeking food bloggers and the secretive "old-fashioned restaurant critic." This week, in its annual Food Issue, The New Yorker reports on a breed of critic far more old-fashioned than Frank Bruni--the Michelin... READ MORE»
