At a recent sneak-preview screening of Tyson, the new Mike Tyson documentary that comes out today, someone sitting near me said something incredibly stupid.

It was after the Q&A session, during which the director, James Toback, who has been friends with Tyson since meeting him on the set on his...

The new Bond movie, out today, is good. Not quite Casino Royale good, but still good: tons of great action scenes, and more of Daniel Craig's glowering young 007, an anti-playboy who kicks ass and seduces women with ruthless efficiency. ("I can't find the stationary," he says--and, whoops, she's in...

When celebrities choose to remain unplugged from the wired world, are they exercising their privilege to be more aloof than the rest of us? Or are they setting a worthwhile example? The other day, Josh Hartnett confessed he pretty much uses his computer for iTunes. Also, he doesn't...

Short shorts are in! Okay, so maybe that's not breaking news. But I thought it could use some explaining, so I hit up a party Wednesday night at the Earnest Sewn boutique in New York's meatpacking district in search of enlightenment. From two top-notch fashion experts, here's the skinny on...

It's uncool to be too connected. This is the main lesson to be learned from August, a new movie set in millennial New York just before the dot-com market went bust. Josh Hartnett plays a flashy young entrepreneur with a promising Internet startup. He soars into stardom on a wave...

Okay, so it's kind of a no-brainer. Then again, the brilliant, off-the-wall author of Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and plenty of other vivid chronicles of the 60's and 70's was an irascible pro-gun maverick who liked to keep people -- especially his editors -- guessing.

I...

You may have seen her recently in the Ben Stiller comedy The Heartbreak Kid, or the Katherine Heigl vehicle 27 Dresses. Or maybe you remember her (as many people seem to) from a certain episode of Entourage involving a threesome. But before long Malin Akerman will definitely be easier to...

After a whirlwind week of (mostly) film-related activity and ubiquitous bold-faced names, things are finally starting to slow down at Sundance. Now is a good time to pause and take stock, so here's an impressionistic write-up of the week--a rundown of who was feeling what, when. Most conclusions are based...

Movies started unspooling last night at Sundance, and the gears of the festival's other big machine -- the celebrity-fashion juggernaut -- have started turning too. You can already feel the impact of its heavy wheels on Main Street, where festivalgoers stop to gawk at the same celebrities publicists are trying...

Most people have never heard of Uwe Boll. Hit up the right blogs and message boards, however, and you'll find all sorts of lively discussions devoted to this uber-lowbrow German director and his "shitacular" work. The abundance of scatological comparisons is astounding, whether in reference to a single film ("another...

There's a time-honored tradition in the movies of casting the government as the bad guy, but it seems like Uncle Sam is doing overtime as the villain these days. It's a bit like the mid-'70s, when the excesses of the Nixon administration made for dark, paranoid thrillers like The Parallax...

This serious-movie season, the war/political dramas (In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, etc.) are hogging the spotlight -- but can we please take a second to talk about the vampires? There are major developments going on in this particular branch of the horror genre. Check out the