Article: Jennifer Lee Pryor talks “Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic”
The late comedian’s wife spoke to IFC about the new documentary and the legacy of her husband.
Article: SNL Sketch Showdown: More Cowbell vs. James Brown Hot Tub Party
Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy battle it out in an intense Round 3 matchup.
Article: Was Richard Pryor the greatest comedian of all time?
“Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic” premieres this month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Article: Lorne Michaels wins rare Peabody Award
The “Saturday Night Live” creator/producer is being honored for his body of work.
Article: Review: “Norm Macdonald Live”
The “Saturday Night Live” veteran hits the web with a new podcast.
Article: Jim Carrey versus The Gun Lobby
A look at the Carrey’s already controversial Funny or Die video, “Cold Dead Hand.”
Article: Rise of the Jason Bateman Comedy Brand
A look at the funny career of the “Arrested Development” star.
Article: The Political Radioactivity of “Zero Dark Thirty”
A look at the arguments surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-nominated film.
Article: Quentin Tarantino and the N Word
A look at the controversy surrounding the “Django Unchained” director.
Article: Top Five American Historical Films
In honor of Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-nominated “Lincoln,” we take a look at the greatest American historical films of all time.
Article: The Five Best Revenge Movies
We take a look at the most ruthless tales of retaliation in cinema history.
Article: The Tragedy of Arnold Schwarzenegger
A look at the peaks and valleys of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Article: Five Reasons We Need a Bane Movie Now
Is the chief villain of “The Dark Knight Rises” worth a standalone movie?
Article: Top Five Time Travel Movies, from Arnold to Willis
Looper, which opened at an over $20 million box office take on its opening weekend, is already being hailed as one of the great time travel movies of all time. Time – pun intended – will tell. What about time travel? The time travel film genre is quite broad, often involving travel to the past…
Article: Against The Superhero Fatigue Argument
Are audiences experiencing “superhero fatigue”? At the outset it should be noted in passing that this sickness unto death, this alleged superhero fatigue, is a year old argument. That would make it a manageable medical condition, this superhero fatigue. The studios have not, so far as I know, called a halt to all the superhero…
Article: Heavy Metal and Horror
How the rock genre and slashers go hand in hand.
Article: Five cool things about “Prometheus” marketing: A post-mortem
The build-up to “Prometheus,” or, as I like to call it, Geek Christmas, was pretty amazing. The film’s subject is artificial intelligence. The anticipation of the film involves the artful release of trailers and websites which has led, not surprisingly, to much social media conversation, magnifying the impact two months before the release date. In…
Article: The five greatest Martial Arts movies
The recent specialty run of The Raid: Redemption, a remake of an Indonesian language martial arts film, calls to mind all the great, hyper-gory kung fu movies that have come before. After viewing, over the years, hundreds of martial arts films – The Boxer from Shantung, which didn’t quite make the list, especially comes to…
Article: Has the Sacha Baron Cohen shtick jumped the shark?
Has America had enough of the British funnyman?
Article: Can We Get a Black Widow Movie?
Can we get a Black Widow movie up in this? Most of the Avengers – Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man – are bankable franchises. And fans of those franchises, to be sure, put their butts in seats to the record-breaking tune of a $200 million opening weekend, beating the previous opening record held…
Article: The difference between movie stars and actors
Is there a difference between “movie stars” and actors? Both of them act, obviously, but one of them does it as an art form and the other does it – how does one say this? — for the adulation and the box office. There has been endless speculation about psychological motivations. Why would someone need…
Article: The 10 toughest women movie characters
We’re just a few months into 2012, but it’s already shaping up to be the return of female protagonists handing out swift justice to the forces of evil. In January we saw Kate Beckinsale kicks some serious ass as “Underworld: Awakening” opened to wide release and Michael Fassbender, secure in his manliness, admitted that fighting…
Article: Why Patrick Dempsey should play Dr. Strange
Our writer explains how “Dr. McDreamy” would be the best choice for the “Sorcerer Supreme.”
Article: The top 5 Batman villains
In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman faces an incredibly brutal villain named Bane, a behemoth well known to readers of the graphic novel. “He’s a big dude who’s incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and -oriented fighting style,” actor Tom Hardy said of Bane, the character he plays, in Empire. “It’s…
