Last weekend, Margin Call opened in movie theaters the same day it became available via video on demand. What happened next defied all expectations.
Hunter S. Thompson: A Gonzo Life In Pictures
The Rum Diary, a fictionalized account of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a freelancer in Puerto Rico, hits theaters on October 28. In honor of the late-career novel that he wrote during his early days as a reporter, a look back at …
Gaga in Love With Like Crazy
Most movie romances dwell on the chase, fading to black shortly after both parties first acknowledge that, yeah, maybe they do love each other. In the first few minutes of Like Crazy, Anna (Felicity Jones), a young Englishwoman …
In Time: Justin Timberlake Tries to Beat the Clock
This futurist parable, about the immortal 1% and the doomed 99%, has a great premise that doesn’t make a great movie
After 17 Years Away, Director Bruce Robinson Returns With The Rum Diary
Withnail and I’s Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S. Thompson’s to the big screen in The Rum Diary
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You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest
A mass audience is watching a drama about a creepy surveillance system that is watching and analyzing their every move–and cheering for the creepy surveillance system.
Do I Hate Coldplay? Or Just Think I Do?
I know I don’t like Coldplay, but I can’t seem to remember why.
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TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return
I always loved Beavis and Butt-Head, but it was mostly for the wrong reasons. The ’90s show was groundbreaking and culturally significant for its interstitial scenes, in which Mike Judge’s two cartoon idiots would watch music …
Netflix and Amazon, Punished by Wall Street: Attention Streamers, the Free Ride Is Over
For those of us who prefer to digitally stream our home entertainment, Tuesday might have marked the end of the world as we know it.
Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is.
Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh?
The Pirates star takes a break from kid-centric movies to honor his old pal Hunter Thompson with this louche, fitfully appealing comedy
Haunted Air: Spooky, Vintage American Halloween Photos
Greil Marcus used the phrase “old, weird America” when writing about Bob Dylan. But we don’t know a better way to describe these anonymous Halloween photos. Old and weird? Check.
Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really?
Disaster flick director Roland Emmerich turns Shakespeare into an illiterate baboon.