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At least it looks super fly. Its too bad that Director X (born Julien Christian Lutz), the Canadian short-form film master for the likes of Rihanna, Drake and Nicki Minaj, stumbles when he has to st…

Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon become unwitting spies in the new trailer for the upcoming action comedy film, The Spy Who Dumped Me . While the clip opens with a James Bond-styled theme (theres also th…

Will evil, murderous clown Pennywise ever find true love? Thats the question at the heart of James Cordens IT spoof The BachelorIT, in which the Late Late Show host plays the horrific villain as a c…

I n 2014, in advance of 30th anniversary of Purple Rain, Warner Brothers announced a new partnership with Prince one that promised remastered and unreleased music from his vaults in exchange for re…

T his years Tribeca Film Festival has hosted projects involving Tom Hanks, photographer Mick Rock, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Spacey and, oh yes, the Grateful Dead. Premiering at the downtown New York fil…

What goes into making a marriage last? Who the fuck knows seems to be the astute answer provided by 45 Years , a sublimely acted, ruefully funny and quietly devastating take on the topic from the gif…

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki road trips across the United States in Elvis Presleys 1963 Rolls-Royce, examining the musicians complicated legacy for the new documentary, The King . In the film, Jarecki tr…

The elusive bird of truth flies with intriguing, if wavering, purpose in this so-called True Story. Heres the setup: Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a New York Times reporter dismissed for fudging fac…

Aliens return to Earth to finish some unfinished civilization-erasing business in Independence Day: Resurgence , the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster film. After previous previews have teasedthe films …

The All-Star Pulp Fiction Gonzo Crime Farce (TM) its practically a genre. Get a bunch of famous people together (not like disaster movie or Oceans Eleven- level famous, but enough to reach Ive-seen-…

New Yorkers and tourists passing through Columbus Circle Thursday were treated to free shaved ice courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell, which was recently given preliminary approval by the Obama administrat…

Ask most folks what the most iconic thing about Los Angeles is, and theyll say the Hollywood sign, Graumans Chinese Theater, the Walk of Fame stars, maybe the Capitol Records building. Ask Damien Cha…

Come Sunday, a.k.a. Oscars night, well all be tipping our hats to the years winners. But before we do that, heres to the losers the worthy ones of 2016 that, for whatever cockamamie reason, didnt ev…

Game of Thrones star Lena Headey added her name to the growing roster of famous actresses coming forward about their alleged encounters with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. In a series of tweet…

Following its failed sale to an investor group, the Weinstein Company announced Monday night that it has officially filed for bankruptcy. Despite the filing to seek bankruptcy protection in the after…

Love, Gilda , anew documentary about Gilda Radner,the beloved comedian and an original Saturday Night Live c ast member, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 18th. As a fest…

Jonathan Demme, dead of cancer at 73. Its hard to take in those words. Or to stop feeling the gut punch of his loss. High praise will flow, deservedly, about Demmes virtuosity as a filmmaker; about …

When Gene Simmons and WWE Studios announced they had teamed to make what they called elevated horror movies, the word elevated raised some eyebrows and not in a Vincent Price kind of way. So Rolling…

A few years ago, Macon Blair came home to find that his New York City apartment has been broken into and his laptop stolen. Having recently relocated to Manhattan, the Virginia native viewed the inc…

Is it a movie? Or a Netflix streaming event? Why cant it be both? Were going to have to get used to the one-two punch in the new age of cinema, which now cedes the multiplex to blockbusters and often…