movies

Rich Juzwiak · 08/13/12 03:00PM

David France's ACT UP doc, How to Survive a Plague, is brilliant. It's out September 21. Here's the trailer.

Russell Crowe as "Noah" Looks Just Like Russell Crowe as "Russell Crowe"

Caity Weaver · 08/10/12 04:54PM

The first image has just been released of Russell Crowe as Noah in Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky's biblical follow-up to his 2010 film about lesbian ballerinas who do it, real nasty, lesbian style. And it confirms what many have long suspected: Russell Crowe sure does look like that.

One Crazy Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee's Rollicking New Mess

Rich Juzwiak · 08/10/12 10:10AM

"I came here to hide but there was so much beauty it didn't seem like a punishment," explains Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters) deep into Spike Lee's latest, Red Hook Summer. Much of the film reads like an argument Lee is having with himself regarding a number of topics: religion versus atheism, progress versus tradition, redemption versus accountability, black Jesus versus white Jesus, fatherhood versus spiritual advisement. However, this moment is clear, direct and confirmed by much of what precedes it aesthetically. Red Hook Summer glows in a saturated glory, its succession of shots of the Brooklyn neighborhood where it's set unfurling like a slow-moving fireworks display. Perhaps it goes without saying, but Red Hook Summer is Lee's latest love letter to the borough he calls home.

Rich Juzwiak · 08/06/12 11:00AM

If Demi Moore is the Queen of Flops, Colin Farrell is their king. Sucks because he's fantastic to watch.

Louis Peitzman · 08/04/12 12:56PM

The former governor of California will return to the big screen in a movie that sounds even worse than you'd imagine.

Skyfall: James Bond Is Still James Bond

Louis Peitzman · 07/28/12 02:40PM


Last night, Daniel Craig's James Bond picked up the Queen at Buckingham Palace and flew her over the Olympic Stadium, where Her Majesty parachuted into the crowd.

Gina Gershon Ruins Showgirls by Admitting She Was In On the Joke

Rich Juzwiak · 07/18/12 02:07PM

The most stimulating thing about camp cinema is the ambiguity of intention: It's practically a game to figure out how aware the participants were in the creation of something so bad that it's good. Things can look so ridiculous that you'd assume any actors/directors/producers involved would have to realize it, and yet their perseverance in and clear commitment to an inevitable bomb suggests a glorious lack of awareness.

Daniel Radcliffe Terrorizes Children

Caity Weaver · 07/13/12 03:31PM

Danielle Radcliffe, who made his fortune teaching children that they can accomplish great things if only they have the good fortune to be accepted into a prestigious school of witchcraft and wizardy, has now resorted to terrorizing them.