Movies
Everybody Wants to Sit in the Bradley Cooper Booth at the ‘Silver Linings’ Diner
Move over, diner scenes from Annie Hall and When Harry Met Sally, tourists from across the globe are descending on little old Upper Darby to […]
You Think Boston Will Fight Us for Mark Wahlberg?
Don’t get me wrong—I like Mark Wahlberg. He was funny in Ted. He was scrappy in The Fighter. I appreciated his commitment to singing heavy […]
UPDATED: Silver Linings Playbook Gets Lots of Oscar Nominations
(Updated with fuller list of nominations below the trailer.) The Oscar nominations are being unveiled at this hour, and Silver Linings Playbook—the movie about tortured […]
Razzies Nominate 5 Worst Movies of 2012
The 33rd annual Razzie award nominations were announced today, and the losers are: Battleship The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure That’s My Boy A […]
Terry Gross: The Queen of “Like”
The first time I heard my father say it, I was seven years old. We were waiting for an elevator in New York, where we […]
The Best Movies of 2012 (Plus the Absolute Worst Film of the Year)
It was a big year in movies. With Dark Knight Rises we saw the end of Christopher Nolan’s influential Dark Knight trilogy. Joss Whedon helmed […]
12 Christmas Movies You Have to Watch or It Isn’t Christmas
Because watching Christmas movies is as legitimate a Christmas activity as midnight mass, here—besides the most obvious (Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th, blah, blah), are […]
Justin Timberlake Shooting Movie at Princeton
Looking like he stepped out of Landau, JT was spotted on Nassau Street Friday filming his new thriller “Runner, Runner.” It appears from IMDB that […]
5 Things You Should Know Before Seeing The Hobbit
It may be hard to believe, but it has been almost nine years since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won […]
Watch: Any Day Now
Set in the 1970s, Any Day Now is the story of a drag queen who sets out to adopt a child who’s been neglected in […]
We Live in a World Where People Who Don’t Recognize Animal House Quotes Are The “Smart Ones”
Pity poor Sweeny Murti, a reporter who covers the New York Yankees for WFAN radio. He’s featured in a calendar—The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said—for […]
The 14 Winners (and Losers) of 2012
Yesterday, Buzzfeed crowned Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield (or as they dubbed them, Stonefield) the winners of 2012. Now I certainly won’t argue against that—they […]
Before Hurricane Sandy, There Was the Dust Bowl
In these fraught times of partisan gridlock about, well, everything, but specifically about man-made climate change (does it exist? are we actually causing it? and […]
10 Pop Culture Coaches We’d Rather Have Than Andy Reid
In some ways, it’s easy to feel bad for Andy Reid. He’s had a terrible year on and off the field. The entire city is […]
Judd Apatow Hosts a Sneak Peek of This Is 40 Tonight at the Ritz 5
In the sequel to Knocked Up, writer-director Judd Apatow finds new ways to use wife/actress Leslie Mann to dive down into the Gen X angst […]