Karina Longworth

GHETTOPHYSICS

Karina Longworth
GHETTOPHYSICS Co-directed by William Arntz, the theorist/funder behind pseudoscience quasi-doc What the Bleep Do We Know?, GhettoPhysics is an infomercial for its other co-director, E. Raymond Brown, the self-proclaimed "visionary" behind a self-published tome of self-help sociology, Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up? (also the subtitle of......

JACKASS 3-D

Karina Longworth
JACKASS 3-D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players — including a midget (Jason "Weeman" Acuña), a clown (Steve-O) and a greaseball stud (Bam Margera), all led by would-be-actor-turned-ringleader Johnny Knoxville — into celebrities, the Jackass franchise pounces on Hollywood's latest cash-cow fad with......

JACKASS 3D

Karina Longworth
JACKASS 3D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players—including a midget (Jason “Weeman” Acuña), a clown (Steve-O), and a greaseball stud (Bam Margera), all led by would-be actor-turned-ringleader Johnny Knoxville––into celebrities, the Jackass franchise pounces on Hollywood's latest cash-cow fad with its third feature......

JACKASS 3D

Karina Longworth
JACKASS 3D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players—including a midget (Jason “Weeman” Acuña), a clown (Steve-O), and a greaseball stud (Bam Margera), all led by would-be actor-turned-ringleader Johnny Knoxville––into celebrities, the Jackass franchise pounces on Hollywood's latest cash-cow fad with its third feature......
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Edward Norton: Dancing With Himself

Karina Longworth
Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative anonymity of a character actor if not for the gossip-media market value of a few of his habits (an aggressive perfectionism that has earned him a “reputation” for “being difficult,”......
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Life As We Know It

Karina Longworth
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT Set up on a blind date by their married best friends, Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) show each other the worst of themselves (“You look like you read,” he says disparagingly. Trust me, she doesn’t.) and separate in a huff before making it......

BARRY MUNDAY

Karina Longworth
BARRY MUNDAY Patrick Wilson unconvincingly hides his male-model bod and visage under a layer of dough and a greasy goatee in order to play the sleaze-made-good title character of Barry Munday. Though his choice of facial hair is, according to UrbanDictionary.com, synonymous with "not getting laid," Barry is actually a......
The Sad Ballad of Silver Lake: Mike Mills' Beginners

Sleepless in Toronto

Karina Longworth
It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs. While the trade pubs breathlessly trumpeted the flurry of deals that took place at the Toronto International Film Festival, an epidemic of grumbling had spread through press and industry screenings. Key complaints concerned the quality of the lineup......
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How to Hallucinate Without Drugs

Karina Longworth
A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void unfolds in four major parts: Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is a young, drug-dealing American in Tokyo, with an unusually close relationship to his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), and......
Buried

Movie Review: Buried

Karina Longworth
BURIED Paul (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver for a KBR-type contractor in Iraq, is captured in an insurgent attack and wakes up buried in a coffin, totally defenseless but for a Zippo, a pencil, a flask, a flashlight, anti-anxiety meds and someone else's cell phone. He uses the latter......