Karina Longworth

Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the tea party movement? It's certainly something of a surprise. When the movie was announced in 2007 with the title Nottingham, reports suggested that it would sympathize with the normally vilified Sheriff of Nottingham......

In the opening scene of Straight Outta LA, two globally franchised multihyphenate multimillionaires stroll around a deserted theater of public spectacle, talking about the iconography of cultural revolution. If that descriptor conjures up an image of old white guys in suits and ties offering an academic address of an anthropological......

In Tom Six's torture-porn game-changer The Human Centipede, an evil German doctor (Dieter Laser) kidnaps a Japanese man and two vapid American girl tourists, imprisons them in his basement lab and shows them a presentation of simplistic hand-drawn slides that illustrate his diabolical plan: By surgically connecting all three via......

Tweens and cinephiles, Get Excited: The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival lineup has been released, and highlights include the world premiere of the next installment of the Twilight series, Eclipse (but don't get too excited--it's billed as a "bonus by-invitation" event); Sundance hit bourgie lesbian family-in-crisis-com The Kids Are Alright......

According to E! Online, tabloid staple Lindsay Lohan--these days best known for getting denied entry from both nightclubs and movie sets--is set to star in Inferno, a biopic of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace. I'll believe it when I see her swallow it......

Last night I went to the premiere of Search and Destroy: Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power, a short documentary included in the just-released limited edition Raw Power box set. The big draw of the film is the new footage of Iggy Pop, candidly shooting the shit about drugs, music,......

It was the money-grubbing movie-studio fuckup to end all money-grubbing movie-studio fuckups. George Cukor's epic musical remake of A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland as a rising ingenue and James Mason as the alcoholic fading star with whom she falls in love, opened in September 1954 to widespread critical......

Attention, super-avid Avatar fans who are also into linguistics: Paul Frommer, the USC professor who created the Na'vi language used in James Cameron's film, will be lecturing and signing DVDs at Laser Blazer on Pico tomorrow night. You have to buy the film at Laser Blazer in order to get......