Joaquin Phoenix

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

Why You Have to See The Master in 70mm

Paul Thomas Anderson excels at coaxing brilliant work out of his collaborators -- which, on his last two features, specifically means not only his leading men but also composer Jonny Greenwood and cinematographers Robert Elswit and Mihai Malaimare Jr. -- and directing them so expertly that he distra ... More >>

The Master Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Reteams With Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To The Wonder at the Toronto Film Festival

See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including: *Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis *Threesomes at the Fest, Including James Franco Vanessa Hudgens *Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master As the summer of self-plagiarism comes to a close, add Terrence Malick to the list of those accused of t ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Returns in Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired The Master

There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film's official bow at the Venice Film ... More >>

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

The Ambassador Review: Mads Brugger Is the Sacha Baron Cohen of Denmark

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Top 10 Famous Vegans

A recent piece by the Associated Press got us thinking: Where are all the famous vegans? Gossip sites already tell us about famous people dating so-and-so, famous people shopping at some boutique you've never heard of, famous people traveling to some island they own, but we hardly get to hear about ... More >>

Future Islands - Echoplex - 11/17/11

Ian Cohen​See also: Future Islands: Too Noisy For New Wave, Too Pussy For Punk Future Islands Echoplex 11-17-11 Better than: Nursing your woes while crying in your beer. Having someone spill theirs on you while dancing in place takes way less effort I'd been told that Baltimore synth-pop be ... More >>

A Cure for the Monday Funk

Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams

The original art, in 3-D

The Joke's on Who?

Take that, Hollywood! Joaquin Phoenix implodes to prove a point. Some point. We think

Gwyneth Paltrow Sings!: Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird

​ Gwyneth Paltrow sings! (see #10). In celebration of this amazing revelation, we've compiled this handy list of Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird, starting, of course with: 1. William Shatner. Who can forget Shatner's much-parodied musical career, especially after Rhino Records' inclu ... More >>

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

Who Takes a Dump on "Rapper" Joaquin Phoenix in Upcoming Mockumentary?

Our hero, before the rapping, the beard, and the coke-and-escorts diet​Our friends at the LA Times got some reports from people who have been shown I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, the presumable phony documentary shot by Casey Affleck and Phoenix over the last couple of years ... More >>

Last Night: The New Lineup of Jane's Addiction @ Bardot

Gustavo TurnerJane's'n'Roses!​ Historic (i.e., pre-Chinese Democracy debacle) Guns'n'Roses bassist Duff McKagan debuted last night holding the low-end for Jane's Addiction in a small gig at Hollywood club Bardot. The band, dubbed by the fans Jane's Addiction 6.0 or Jane's'n'Roses, sounded hap ... More >>

Faux Hookers, Bartending Kids at Banksy Premiere

​ Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary starring (and apparently detourned by) street artist Banksy, had its LA premiere last night at the grand old Los Angeles Theater in Downtown LA. In our cover story this week, Banksy himself claimed that "the plan for the American premiere is to sur ... More >>

RADIO GOO-GOO

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Talking Hip Hop (and Phil Collins) With At the Movies' Ben Lyons

By Brandon Perkins Perhaps if Ben Lyons' movie chops were as obvious as his hip-hop track record, then sites like StopBenLyons.com wouldn't exist. Ever since the E! personality took the helm of the Siskel, Roper and Ebert's beloved At the Movies, Lyons has been berated with more thumbs down than ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Friday the 13th, Gomorrah

Also, Fuel, Polanski: Unauthorized, and more

Shades of Gray: Two Lovers Director on Ford and Fellini, Phoenix and Paltrow

... and that "Gallic fetish" thing

Will The Real Joaquin Phoenix Stand Up? New Rhymes for (or from?) a Budding Rapper

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Will_The_Real_Joaquin_Phoenix_Stand_Up'; Recently two comment posts have appeared as part of our Joaquin Phoenix Attempts a 'Reverse Will Smith' coverage, and we've been very impressed. In fact, we're kinda wondering whether MC Joaquin isn't floating us a few rh ... More >>

Only in Hollywood: Joaquin Phoenix to attempt a "Reverse Will Smith" by Leaving Acting to Become a Rapper

Actor Joaquin Phoenix is attempting an incredibly difficult maneuver in the entertainment world: he's leaving acting to become a rapper. The actor, whose work in Walk the Line certified him as a bad-ass, announced his retirement from the movie business last year, and since then there have been rumbl ... More >>

AFI Fest: A to W

Our comprehensive guide to more than 40 festival titles

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the movies, you know Marfa as a smalltown Hollywood, where both There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were filmed recently, and where Giant was fi ... More >>

Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the movies, you know Marfa as a smalltown Hollywood, where both There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were filmed recently, and where Giant was fi ... More >>

Trash and Vaudeville

Heavy Trash, Power Solo, Jail Weddings The Echo, November 10

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This egomaniacal vanity study called Heavy Trash, which I could take for ironic stagecraft if I wasn’t under the impression that his inflated id is all t ... More >>

Road to Hell

Terry George’s latest comes with plenty of reservations

Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

Also this week's pick, Colma: The Musical

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

Hot and Bothered

Music Video Showcase

Kids in the Mall

Another Lost Weekend?

What to do from March 3 - 9

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Back in Black

Some inspired detours sway Walk the Line from the straight and narrow

Ties That Blind

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda

Tofu On A Stick

The Kooch’s low-carb campaign heads west

Horse Balm and Bull Pucky

Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

Field Trips

Crap Circles

Whip It

Whip it good

Saving General Maximus

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator