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....

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...

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...

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...