Amy Nicholson

Congratulations, Detroit. In 1987, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop cemented it as the most violent city in the world, an honor the Motor City resented for decades until its powers that be realized they may as well erect a statue of Peter Weller and milk the tourism. Twenty-seven years later, the attention......

Consider the Lego, the toy of contradiction. With one — well, with hundreds of them — you can build anything: houses, airplanes, house-airplanes. You can even build something that will change the world, as Larry Page and Sergey Brin did in 1996 when they housed the server for their new......

It's impossible to pick Philip Seymour Hoffman's best performance. But I can pick my favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman movie: Synecdoche, New York. In a way, it's an easy choice. Charlie Kaufman's first and only directing effort is literally a film about everything: life, death, love, creativity, identity, frustration, forgiveness and......

While our ingenues scurry toward teen best sellers and David O. Russell flicks, here's the next generation of talented leading men swaggering into a dude-bro Sex and the City. At night, best friends played by Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan — aka the player, the goof and......

Baltimore's 12 O'Clock Boys are a dirt-bike crew who literally believe in ride or die. If it weren't for their Sundays in the streets causing havoc for the cops, boredom and stress would get them in worse trouble. And from what we see in Lotfy Nathan's documentary, we believe it......

For Robert Redford, Sundance's opening day was a bummer. He woke up to learn the Academy had snubbed him for a (deserved) Best Actor nod for the sparse yachting drama All Is Lost, and had to spend his typically triumphant morning press conference swatting down questions about being sad. Luckily......