Blog Entries by Karina Longworth
Redacted
About 10 people walked out of this afternoon's Telluride screening of Brian DePalma's Redacted, most during a horrific rape scene right in the center of the picture. The bulk of those who stayed gave the HD dramatization of the real-life rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S....
Rescue Dawn: No Longer Patriotic?
Posted August 21, 2007 | 03:38 PM (EST)
MGM's decision to release Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn on July 4 was more than just a clever Transformers counter-programming gambit: it was an implicit attempt to mark the German director's POW drama, a dramatic remake of his own documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly, as a red state-targeted tribute to...
Trapped in the Closet: It's Here, But it Could Be Queerer
Posted August 14, 2007 | 06:49 PM (EST)
Recently, IFC's Evan Shapiro defended his company's production and distribution of new chapters in R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet saga by comparing the "hip hopera" pioneer to postmodern trash god John Waters. Trapped, according to Shapiro, "challenges the traditional mores and sexual stereotypes of the current...
Lindsay Lohan: The Next River Phoenix? Or The Next Judy Garland?
Posted June 7, 2007 | 09:57 AM (EST)
In the days following Lindsay Lohan's Memorial Day hat trick -- the car crash, the arrest, the by-now-infamous passenger seat pass-out captured by paparazzi for posterity -- celebrity-ologists rushed to place the 20-year-old's bad behavior in proper context.
Sharon Waxman, a (former?) Hollywood beat reporter...
John McCain was booed by his own supporters during a rally on Friday after he described Barack...
Mark Wahlberg is not a fan of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from October 4th called "Mark Wahlberg Talks...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor...
Since our last...
The McCain campaign crossed the line today from negative...
Back in the days of Willie Horton and the Jesse Helms "hands"...
E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she...
Jon Stewart highlighted Fox News' coverage from the past few days in politics on his show Thursday night,...
UPDATED WITH TEXT: Brad Pitt's long-awaited photos of Angelina Jolie for W , shot...
NEW YORK — Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild...
We all put our pants on one leg at a time. But when you're running for public office,...
I don't know if Sarah would be into trying yoga. It can be a fairly...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
Posted September 2, 2007 | 09:27 PM (EST)