This Song Makes Every Scene Better: Best Picture Fiasco Edition
A stunning Oscar night gaffe created one of the most surprising moments in live television history on Sunday after the wrong Best Picture winner was initially announced.
‘Weiner’ Review
It’s Like Living a Nightmare: The Huma Abedin Story
Weiner is a documentary about failure—unremitting, unrelenting, personal, professional, and moral failure. Failure of the sort you rarely get to see in real time. Feds Spending $90,000 for Climate Change Film Festival in Mumbai
‘Green Heroes Film Fest’
The State Department is planning to spend $90,000 for a film festival about climate change in India. ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Review
The best ‘Iron Man’ film ever made
Despite the name on the marquee and the content of the advertising campaign, this is very much a film about Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). ‘A Whit Stillman Trilogy’ Review
New Criterion set celebrates the auteur of UHBs
At some point last week as I was working my way through Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco—Whit Stillman’s triptych from the 1990s, each for sale separately and also helpfully collected in a new set by the Criterion Collection*—I realized that Chris Eigeman was my spirit animal. Students Censor ‘Zoolander 2’ Screening Because Film Pokes Fun at ‘Marginalized Identities’
Plans to screen “Zoolander 2” at a private college in California fell through after college students complained the movie was too offensive in its portrayal of individuals who identify with the LBGT community. Clinton: I’m ‘Too Busy Campaigning’ to See New Benghazi Movie
Chris Pratt Uses Raptor Training Skills to Help Sick Kids
What have Jurassic World's critics ever done to help sick kids?
As Jurassic World blows past box office records, and poorly thought-out critiques, Chris Pratt is using his raptor training skills to help cheer up sick kids. ‘Tomorrowland’ Review
Wholesome adventure with a dash of agitprop for the kiddies
Tomorrowland is both an indictment of the Hollywood Dream Factory and a paean to its power, a film that aspires to inspire. It’ll play great with the 8-to-14 demo, though their parents may heave a sigh or two. Film Goes Behind the Scenes of ‘Wildest Week’ in Washington
‘Nerd Prom’ digs into truth of D.C.’s biggest event
A new documentary film gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the hoopla surrounding the White House Correspondents’ dinner, which, much to the dismay of some, has become the most important social week of the year in Washington, D.C. 