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"Sex Is Fucking Ridiculous": A Discussion With Peaches
Rich Juzwiak · 10/21/13 01:32PMWhat's Next for the Guy Who Wrote Gravity?
Max Read · 10/17/13 03:47PMJulian Assange's Dramatic Fan Letter to Benedict Cumberbatch
Adrian Chen · 10/09/13 02:59PM"I believe that you are a decent person, who would not naturally wish to harm good people in dire situations," is probably the weirdest compliment person-shaped-internet-meme Benedict Cumberbatch has received in his career. But Julian Assange is not your normal tween Cumerbatch fan on Tumblr. Assange is not happy about the upcoming Dreamworks blockbuster The Fifth Estate, which features Cumberbatch as him, and he's written a very long letter to express his dissatisfaction.
Movie Blogger Calls the Cops on Man Using Cellphone in Theater
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/10/13 10:48AMAmerica Will Now Be Entertained By Bible Sequels
Ken Layne · 08/30/13 04:00PMAll the good superheroes are used up, so the next fun entertainment for Americans will be various sequels and spinoffs from the Holy Bible. A lot of Americans still claim to believe in the Christian religion: 77 percent say they still follow the breakaway Jewish sect, which remains a huge demographic even if it's down considerably from its 90 percent market penetration a half century ago.
The Week in Movies: Passion and One Direction in 3Directions
Maggie Lange · 08/30/13 04:00PMRich Juzwiak · 08/28/13 10:13AM
The Week in Movies: Drinking Buddies, The Grandmaster, The World's End
Maggie Lange · 08/23/13 04:21PMSpike Lee Amends "Essential Film List" to Include Women-Directed Works
Camille Dodero · 08/20/13 03:00PMSpike Lee, a very accomplished New York film director and NYU professor, has spent a substantial part of this summer promoting a Kickstarter campaign he'd launched to crowdsource a $1,250,000 budget for his vaguely defined next movie. (On Friday, his $1.25-million goal was met.) One of the ways he'd drummed up publicity for the project was by releasing the academic list of essential movies he considers "the greatest films ever made," a slugsheet of cinematic titles he'd routinely hand out on the first day of class, which we published here.
The Week in Movies: Jobs, The Butler, Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Maggie Lange · 08/16/13 05:00PMThe Week in Movies: Elysium, Prince Avalanche, Lovelace, and Planes
Maggie Lange · 08/09/13 05:30PMWho's Worse: Movie Theater Shush-ers, or Movie Theater Talkers?
Max Read · 08/08/13 01:38PMThe Week in Movies: The Canyons, Spectacular Now, 2 Guns and Smurfs 2
Maggie Lange · 08/02/13 05:30PMAre We Facing a Critical Shortage of Good Male Action Leads?
Max Read · 07/31/13 02:30PMBen Stiller Gets His Wish Fulfillment: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Maggie Lange · 07/30/13 12:10PMHere's a Terrific Video Essay on David O. Selznick, Neorealism and Life
Maggie Lange · 07/30/13 11:25AMIn this five-minute video essay, filmmaker Ernie Park compares two different versions of a 1953 film: one edited for Hollywood audiences and one for Italian filmgoers. By comparing two different versions of the same footage, the video essay comes across like a think piece on how seemingly cosmetic changes can affect meaning, tone, and content in movies.
The Week in Movies: Blue Jasmine and The Wolverine‘s To Do List
Maggie Lange · 07/26/13 05:30PMJohn Cook · 07/25/13 03:00PM
Woody Allen and Cate Blanchett Construct a Perfect Breakdown
Maggie Lange · 07/25/13 12:33PMCate Blanchett is genius at demonstrating a veneer of icy sophistication slowly cracking. You can see glimpses in her eyes, her jittery jaw, her wringing hands, in the birdlike suspension of shaky limbs held akimbo. In Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen's latest film, her character Jasmine is a woman in the midst of a nervous collapse. Her real-estate swindler ex was imprisoned for stealing millions, and as a result, she's been torn from her Park Avenue penthouse. She’s holding on by a Chanel suit string, subsisting solely on Stoli, with a constant blur of mascara smudging her lower eyelid.