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Recommended Instant Watch: "Pit Stop"
Just a heads up that one of last year's best festival titles is playing on Netflix Instant Watch. Yen Tan's Pit Stop unfortunately never saw theatrical release but it won a few festival prizes along...
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Review: "Enemy" Pits Gyllenhaal Against Gyllenhaal
This review originally appeared in my column at Towleroad Have you ever read Jose Saramago's "Blindness"? That genius novel, about a sudden epidemic that renders the whole world blind, is hugely...
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Box Office: Smart Dogs, Ab'ed Warriors, and Speed Racers
Because animated films have good legs at the box office, Mr Peabody continued to walk up right and traded places with the muscle-bound warriors of the 300 sequel for first place.  BOX OFFICE01 MR...
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The Link World
Gilt City contest to see IF/THEN the wickedly talented one and only Idina Menzel's new Broadway showThe Wire is documenting the Kevin Spacey / Rob Ford feudInstagram Madonna dresses up as Daenerys...
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A History of... Rob Lowe
Today is Rob Lowe's 50th Birthday. This photo was taken only a couple of years ago for Vanity Fair... To unearth the mystery (or at least to celebrate) Rob Lowe's continual beauty, undefiled by age,...
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Beauty Vs Beast - The Boys of Bruges
JA from MNPP here with this week's sorta St. Paddys edition of our "Beauty Vs. Beast" series. I say "sorta" because several factors contributed to me wanting to do a face-off between who we're doing a...
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Women's History Month: Greer Garson as Marie Curie
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with abstew's look at English Rose Greer Garson in a nearly-forgotten classic about one of the most important women in science. Marie Curie Born: She...
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Veronica Mars and the Case of 'What Is Cinematic'?
Glenn here to discuss Veronica Mars. Did you see it this weekend? Â Maybe you streamed it on demand or (like me) trekked to a cinema to see it on the big screen and watch the crowd collectively laugh at...
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Curio: Rob, Always and Forever
Alexa here. Before the Oscar ceremony this year I flashed back to Rob Lowe's low of 1989, dancing with Snow White, and I wished the ceremony would still include that tastelessness of yore. Â Alas, while...
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Kate Winslet is FINALLY a Star
Here is abstew on Kate Winslet's star ceremony  Ladies and gentlemen, the ground of Los Angeles literally shook in anticipation of Kate Winslet's star today. Don't worry, that earthquake in LA...
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Linkomaniac Pt. 1
The Daily Beast talks to Uma Thurman about Lars von Trier and gender politicsFive Thirty Eight parses Shakespeare and finds that Romeo & Juliet have a relationship that's not totally based on...
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Sofia Coppola's "Little Mermaid" Can You Imagine It?
I'm going to have months of fun fantasizing about what this film will be like. According to Variety, Sofia Coppola is in talks to helm a new version of "The Little Mermaid", the flexible originally...
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New Pixar sequels announced, one more incredible than the other
Disney announced today that Pixar has more sequels in the pipeline after Finding Dory in 2016. For our sins, one of them is Cars 3, because as long as the company can make the GDP of several small...
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Visual Index ~ Eternal Sunshine's Best Shots
In the "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series we ask participants (all are welcome) to post a single shot that they think is the chosen movie's best and tell us why. "Best" is open to interpretation of...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot. I am Joel Barrish. Or I was while rewatching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I hadn't seen the film in about 8...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "The Giver"
Normally we don't cover "teasers" in the Yes No Maybe So trailer series but we'll make an exception with The Giver because it is trapped somewhere between a short teaser and a full length trailer. And...
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Jane & Lily are "Grace & Frankie"
Lily & Jane together in 2006 for a Nine to Five party (photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)In the greatest news that ever existed today, Netflix has revealed that Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin will...
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Asian Film Awards: Snowpiercer, The Grandmaster, and More
The youngest of film awards for Asian cinema (they have quite a few) is the Asian Film Awards which are now in their 8th year. Unlike the prestigious Golden Horse which (mostly) goes to Chinese...
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Dinner with... Joel & Clementine & Link Roundups
November 19th, 2003. Dinner at Kang's again. Are we like those poor couples you feel sorry for in restaurants. Are we the dining dead?" How did i forget this shot of Joel playing with his food. Food...
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