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Cannes Responds To Last Year's Controversy

Posted 04.18.2013 | Entertainment

The 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced on Thursday morning, with new films from Joel and Ethan Coen, Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh, Al...

Watching 'The Big Lebowski' 15 Years Too Late

Mike Ryan | Posted 05.11.2013 | Entertainment
Mike Ryan

"Living a lie," seems a tad too dramatic of a way of admitting that I had never seen The Big Lebowski. I mean, I never technically lied to anyone about this. No one has ever asked me if I've seen The Big Lebowski because, at this point, everyone just assumes that I have seen The Big Lebowski.

The Oscars Category That Should Be

Kim Morgan | Posted 04.26.2013 | Entertainment
Kim Morgan

Why not an Oscar category for Best Soundtrack? Or, rather, the best use of pre-existing music?

What Now, Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.30.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Now that his first comeback movie has seriously bombed, what's next for Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Fargo Residents Ready For FX's 'Fargo'

AP | DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 12.22.2012 | TV

FARGO, N.D. — Ask folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not ...

Major Oscar Winners Making Giant TV Leap

Posted 12.05.2011 | Entertainment

From Zooey Deschanel and Christina Ricci to Dustin Hoffman, Ashton Kutcher and Jeff Daniels, TV has taken in an unusual number of established movie st...

The Best F*cks In Film History!

Posted 11.28.2011 | Entertainment

With box office opportunities of the utmost importants, producers often work to minimize the foul language in films. The general rule, according to th...

The Dude, The Buddha And A Joyful Mind Make Beautiful Music Together

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.20.2011 | Religion
Cathleen Falsani

With Jeff Bridges' new album, Dudeists have music to go along with their scriptures. Could a Dudeist liturgy be on the horizon as well?

A Conversation With Sheila E., Plus Chats With Manchester Orchestra and Jim Guthrie, and Weerd Science's Audio Exclusive

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.17.2011 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

It's really hard to imagine the level of creativity and output we see from Sheila E.

ReelzChannel Video: Top 5 "Helluva Town" Cities

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

If you believed the movies, to venture across the George Washington Bridge is to court danger down every street. But NYC's not alone in this treatment by Hollywood, and we've got the filmed documentation to prove it.

ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

It's a basic tenet of good storytelling that whatever plans your characters put into action, it can't hurt if things don't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.

HuffPost Review: New York, I Love You

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

What to make of omnibus/anthology films such as New York, I Love You? Do you judge them by the best of the short films contained within? Or by the wo...

A Serious Man

Will Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Will Menaker

The Coen universe is so meticulously crafted that the absence of an inherent order seems almost impossible. How could something of such exquisite function arise from something so absurd and meaningless?

Toronto Film Festival Wrap-up

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

The Toronto Film Festival ended over the weekend. In covering it I saw some 24 films in all, including a few Oscar hopefuls that actually delivered.

The Coen Brothers Get "Serious" with a Comic (and Spiritual) Masterpiece

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Cathleen Falsani

The Coens have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked -- if not always answered. It seems there's no question the brothers are afraid to tackle.

Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 2

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

Directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air puts Reitman at three for three, in terms of movies that manage to be both smart and wickedly witty. This film could easily put a second Oscar on George Clooney's mantle.

Toronto Film Fest Day 2: Two Hits, A Fun Miss and Then Malaise

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Reviewed: the new Coen brothers movie, George Clooney, fuzzy Ukrainian subtitles and a pack of arty Vikings.