You haven't seen the last of "L.A. Confidential." According to Deadline, James Ellroy -- who wrote the original 1997 film starring Kevin Spacey, Ru...
Ever the busy man, actor/director/author/teacher/poet James Franco has announced his next project. "We're going to do 'American Tabloid' by James E...
Woody Harrelson's tour de force performance in Rampart is reminiscent of Oscar winner Denzel Washington's in Training Day.
Harrelson's testosterone-fueled performance illustrates this Maui-based actor's ferocity, playing a character very little like his green (he grows his own produce), peace-loving, pot-smoking self.
Having teamed up for the emotionally demanding The Messenger, filmmaker Oren Moverman and actor Woody Harrelson join forces again for Rampart, a seari...
The Late Great Creature has been reissued and Brock Brower's hardboiled, horror-themed wit might finally find a new audience. It's at the very least found me.
Through Bunraku, an archly-stylized swordplay fantasy, Josh Hartnett returns to the genre spotlight. This computer-enhanced tale revolves around a "Man with No Name," and draws heavily on Samurai and Western tropes in an alternate-world dystopia.
From Flavorwire: A while back we did a post on literary love letters to NYC, but we knew at some point we should honor the entertainment capital of...
Our most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall. ...
To my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers.
It has come to my attention that a favorite interview question for authors, especially debut authors, is what you did before you were a published. The...
Norman Rush The New York Review of Books Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy Knopf, 640 pp., $28.95 1. James Ellroy's astonishing creation, the Underwo...
Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.
There are few hells more tormenting than hanging with other writers. We are an insecure, egocentric, petty, envious breed who enjoy spreading pain, hoping to maximize it for ourselves.
