Colin Farrell

Byzantium Review: Neil Jordan Does Another Vampire Movie

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund Chat About the Movie Adaptation of On the Road

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

Why Is Martin McDonagh So Captivated By Villains Who Love Their Pets?

Vito Corleone has his cat. Dr. Evil has Mr. Bigglesworth. Jabba the Hut has whatever this thing is. Even Hitler had a German Shepard named Blondi. Villains throughout history have had pets. It's an easy way to humanize them, so that they're not just mustache-twisting caricatures. Sometimes they're ... More >>

Seven Psychopaths Review: This Is How You Make a Crime Movie

Total Recall Is a Retread of Blade Runner, Brazil, Minority Report...Oh, and Total Recall

By Chris Packham Total Recall, directed by Len Wiseman, aspires to be less stupid than its 1990 predecessor and kind of succeeds for the first third of the film. If you subtract all the metaphysical illusion-versus-reality nonsense, Philip K. Dick's Walter Mitty story "We Can Remember It for You W ... More >>

London Boulevard Review

Horrible Bosses Review: The Recession Makes Straight Dudes Worry About Getting Raped

​ There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word "pussy." Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with th ... More >>

Terrence Malick at LACMA

Filmmaker gets retrospective in advance of upcoming Tree of Life

Movie Reviews: Living in Emergency, Micmacs, The Painter Sam Francis

Also, Agora, Burzynski, Ondine and more

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die: A Look Back at Terry Gilliam's Most Memorable Characters

Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusIt's a journey through a magic mirror where the lead character in the film changes form not because the original script dictated it, but because the actor sadly passed away in the midst of filming. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus isn't just a fa ... More >>

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

AFI Fest: A to W

Our comprehensive guide to more than 40 festival titles

Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

Movie Reviews: Encounters at the End of the World, Finding Amanda, Wanted

Also, The Unknown Woman, Expired and more

In Bruges: More Adventures in Gangsterland

Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick isn't much of a trip

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Adrift in Cassandra's Dream

Allen's latest casts him in uncertain waters

Arthur Mag Dead

ARTHUR MAG IS DEAD. This on Pitchfork:  Hippies, stoners, and folk freaks the world over wept today as it was announced that Arthur magazine will close its doors after five glorious years of delivering discourse and pretty pictures on art, music, and more to our marijuana-stained hands. As con ... More >>

Undercover Blues

Violent shootouts and dangerous love in Mann’s visceral cop series update

A Mann's Man's World

Think you can keep up with the Miami Vice director?

40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

Who's Your Daddy, America?

Big Love and Sons & Daughters — dysfunction in two new models

Gone With the Wind

Robert Towne’s romantic valentine to a bygone L.A.

The New New World

Terrence Malick prunes his garden, leaves grass intact

Colin Farrell- A Style Council fan?

I got some flack a while back after dissing (does anyone say dissing anymore? we probably shouldn't) the knit skull cap, a co-worker even wore one in defiance. But ever since the post, Colin Farrell hasn't worn his usual hollywood douchebag cap. Coincidence? Probably. First he was spotted in a fedo ... More >>

Back to the Garden

The suffocating beauty of Terrence Malick’s earthy New World

That Reprehensible Man and His Flying Machine

Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator

Alexander the Not-So-Hot

Oliver Stone aims for respectability

Off the Cuff

Dump Bush, Er, Never Mind . . .

How To Manage a Ménage

Three’s company in A Home at the End of the World

Strange Bedfellows: Winona and the Chicago 7

Pre-Cognitive Dissonance

In Minority Report, the eyes have it

Twisted Roots

Little Otik’s comedy of terrors; plus, Hart’s War