Karina Longworth

If you're heading to Austin for the SXSW Interactive or Music festivals and have a Gold or Platinum badge, you can use it to get into screenings at the SXSW Film Festival, which starts today and runs all the way through the end of the Music fest next week. SXSW......

Bob Murawski just won an Oscar for editing Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a long-in-the-works indie project that came seemingly out of nowhere to earn the respect and accolades of the Academy. Now Murawski's own long-in-the-works indie project is about to be unveiled at the Egyptian Theater tonight, and it's......

Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in Los Angeles when dating Jennifer Jason Leigh, now his wife, but for years he made do by bumming rides. "The idea of just getting in the car by......

The 82nd Academy Awards offered a referendum on what Oscar voters value versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. Kathryn Bigelow's stunning, groundbreaking achievement as the first woman to direct a Best Picture winner was the obvious headline, but considering the Academy's concerted effort to expand the audience for......

Corey Haim, the 38 year-old former teen idol (you may remember, as I certainly do, that he fucking owned the heyday of Bop Magazine) and star of The Lost Boys and License to Drive, has died of what appears to be a drug overdose. Haim was apparently found in his......

The Academy has a lot of stupid and/or controversial rules regarding the Best Documentary category, and one of them is that only two people can be nominated for a given non-fiction film--generally, the director and the producer most active during production. In the case of last night's winner, The Cove,......

The 82nd Academy Awards were a referendum on what Oscar voters value, versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. The headline will be Kathryn Bigelow's stunning, groundbreaking achievement as the first woman to win Best Picture. But considering the Academy's concerted effort to expand the audience for this year's......