America’s split personality: Paranoid superstate and land of equality
From "The Heat" to "White House Down," from Snowden to gay rights, America plays both hero and villain
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
“The Heat”: Police misconduct as feminism
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy have a funny, uneasy chemistry, but "The Heat" leaves a nasty aftertaste
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 6:30 PM UTC 53Entertainment Movies, Action movies
“White House Down”: Destroying America in order to save it
Channing Tatum saves Jamie Foxx's peacemaking black president from a right-wing coup in "White House Down"
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 20Entertainment Movies, Action movies
Pick of the week: The mind-blowing black punk band from 1974
The unbelievable but true story of "A Band Called Death" -- and its amazing rebirth
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 11Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Music
“I’m So Excited!”: An air disaster, made fabulous
Celebrate gay pride with Pedro Almodóvar -- and an outrageous sex, drugs and death party on board a doomed plane
Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 7:53 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Our Picks
“How to Make Money Selling Drugs”: The war America keeps on losing
A slick documentary with a jokey premise argues that the "war on drugs" has been a soul-destroying disaster
Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 44Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Drugs
Are environmentalists rethinking nuclear power?
The enviro-doc "Pandora's Promise" enters the forbidden zone on nuclear power, exposing a deep split among greens
Saturday, Jun 22, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 111Sustain Movies, Documentaries
Pick of the week: Hijacked by Somali pirates
The riveting Danish thriller "A Hijacking" explores Somali piracy as capitalism by other means
Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 11:59 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Our Picks
“The Attack”: I married a suicide bomber
A Lebanese filmmaker violates taboos in this fable of an assimilated Arab-Israeli doctor facing a dreadful truth
Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Thrillers, arabs
“World War Z”: The zombie apocalypse gets super-sized
Brad Pitt's $200 million zombie epic is exciting cinema, but its sloppy, lazy script rips off many better films
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 6:45 PM UTC 23Entertainment Movies, Action movies
A head trip to a haunted recording studio
Part tribute to 1970s Italian horror and part Lynch-style art film, "Berberian Sound Studio" is one of a kind
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment Movies, Horror, Our Picks
From Ike to “The Matrix”: Welcome to the American dystopia
Part Orwellian security state, part Huxley wonderland and part "Matrix," America is three dystopias in one!
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 10:30 AM UTC 114Entertainment Movies, Politics, Surveillance
Pick of the week: Fighting the world’s worst homophobia
Pick of the week: "Call Me Kuchu" is the tragic tale of Ugandan activist David Kato, and a crucial film of our time
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 11:59 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Documentaries, LGBT
“Man of Steel”: Truth, justice and the Nietzschean way
Superman gets a massive, expensive reboot from Chris Nolan and Zack Snyder that feels way too "Dark Knight Lite"
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 10:45 PM UTC 153Entertainment Movies, Action movies
“This Is the End”: Dude, it’s the apocalypse!
Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Franco and other stars play "themselves" in a goofy, drug-addled Rapture bromance
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 17Entertainment Movies, Comedy, James Franco
Is Alex Gibney’s WikiLeaks film “state agitprop”?
Respected left-wing journalist Chris Hedges joins the backlash against "We Steal Secrets." What's really going on?
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 102Entertainment Movies, Documentaries
Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency
Reporter Jeremy Scahill's riveting film helps explain how the "transformational presidency" turned to nightmare
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 130Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Politics
Pick of the week: Joss Whedon does Shakespeare
The director's homemade, black-and-white "Much Ado About Nothing" sparkles with wit, sex and energy
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 11:00 PM UTC 12Entertainment Movies, Comedy, Romantic comedy
“The Internship”: A fatal overdose of Googliness
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are a pair of old-school idiots facing the Info Age in the lame and lazy "Internship"
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 8:05 PM UTC 12Entertainment Movies, Comedy, vince vaughn
Morton Downey Jr.: The man who broke talk TV
Before Beck, Rush and Hannity came the brief but horrifying career of proto-Tea Partyer Morton Downey Jr.
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 10:58 PM UTC 63Entertainment Movies, Documentaries
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