Karina Longworth

In Brian Poyser's hilarious, unexpectedly suspenseful love-triangle indie Lovers of Hate, a loser, would-be novelist (Chris Doubek) loses his wife (Heather Kafka) and accidentally finds her shacked up on a wintry mountaintop with his younger brother (Alex Karpovsky), a successful novelist who may very well have built his career on......

I'm Still Here — "that Joaquin Phoenix movie" — capitalizes on an anxiety that's very of-the-moment, uniting pop-cultural phenomena as seemingly disparate as the too-stupid/too-good-to-be-true Jersey Shore characters, James Franco's baffling side careers as a professional student and soap opera stud, and pretty much everything having to do with Vincent Gallo. Basically,......

The 1953 New York Times review opened with the kind of qualified, mildly patronizing praise that's become the default critical response to first-time filmmakers whose ambition exceeds their results. "The need for encouragement of fresh talent and its fairly common concomitant, the audacity of youth, was never made more pointed......

In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around the character of Machete — a stringy-haired, leather-faced ex-Federale turned down-and-dirty hit man turned violent crusader on behalf of his fellow illegal immigrants. While Trejo played a different character named Machete in......

GOING THE DISTANCE "What really matters is what you like, not what you are like," says John Cusack in High Fidelity, a very good romantic comedy about a 30-something man who can't maintain a relationship, partially because he's holding on to stale record-nerd dreams. Going the Distance is a not-very-good......

Gone With the Pope is a '70s-era low-budget exploitation flick about a crew of bumbling Italian gangsters who come up with an ingenious plot to kidnap the pontiff, demanding a ransom of 50 cents from every Catholic around the globe. Directed by its star, Duke Mitchell, a nightclub singer and......

"You've got an actress in career distress, meeting an over-the-hill legend, and at the end of it, there's a dead woman in a castle." Vikram Jayanti — producer of the Oscar-winning When We Were Kings, director of the James Ellroy doc Feast of Death — is calling from London to......