Withnail and I’s Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S. Thompson’s to the big screen in The Rum Diary
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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.
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
Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really?
Disaster flick director Roland Emmerich turns Shakespeare into an illiterate baboon.
Cinema via Cell Phones? We Have Seen Park Chan- Wook’s iPhone 4 Masterpiece, and Now We Believe
A short film about psychics, floating corpses and the afterlife proves that riveting major-league cinema can be created on the tiniest of devices.
Nazis on the Moon: Iron Sky and the Crowdsourced Film
I love a good sci-fi movie. But these days, most of them are are like the Mets: tons of promise followed by complete disappointment.
Who’s Scarier—Spielberg’s Dinos or George Lucas’s Disgruntled Fans?
Every Tuesday, we shine a light on a few big, worthy or just plain weird DVD releases.
Lunchtime Movie Matinee: Musical Mayhem, Courtesy of the Blues Brothers
The cops have staked out the concert hall. The lead performers are nowhere to be found. The crowd is growing rowdy. The show must go on.
Yet, just when all hope seems lost for a great Blues Brother reunion at the Palace Hotel …
On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell
On Sunday night, Will Ferrell took to the red carpet inside Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center dressed in a lush blue velvet jacket, complete with velvet bow tie and pocket square. He had arrived to become the 14th recipient of the …
Paranormal 3 is Metafantastic
The third in the series of low-budget spook sonatas woke up the sleepy autumn box office with the best-ever opening for an October film
Bernard Herrmann at 100: Music of the Fears
On his centenary, a tribute to the Master of Musical Suspense, who gave viewers shivers with his superb scores for Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver.
John Hawkes’ Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal
Everyone loves Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now, some adulation for the movie’s cult leader John Hawkes.
Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top
There is a softness to the way Elizabeth Olsen moves on screen, as if her joints are made of recently melted wax. Simultaneously tough and unabashedly feminine, she can stretch out like a sleepy cat in one scene and coil up as if …