Originally slated to open in September, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre “inappropriate.” Four months later, a turn in the film’s plot that relies on gunning down an adolescent risks recalling Newtown, but the proximity…
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson’s 2005 short story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift…
“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he…
It’s not easy being famous, as the famous love to remind us. Just ask Jennifer Aniston, Kid Rock, or any of the other instantly recognizable talking heads director Kevin Mazur has assembled for his docu-evisceration of the parasitic celebrity apparatus, appropriately titled $ellebrity. Although no one would deny that the…
It’s almost impossible to dislike Chris Colfer, the young Glee star who wrote and stars in the high school comedy Struck by Lightning, which plays like a cheerful gay Revenge of the Nerds. However, never having seen Glee, I’ll make two observations about Colfer: (1) Yes, he’s very likable, but…
When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong Il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994 until his own passing 17 years later, was a noted…
As Downton Abbey season three mania sweeps across South Florida — and the nation — we’re all starry-eyed imagining the ins and outs of life at the turn of the century. And with the introduction of Cora’s sassy American mother, more of that attention is aimed at our own shores…
The Bravo network is good at many things: making irrelevant people famous, teaching us how to cook, and making housewivery the most desirable job in the country. But if we had to find the network’s strongest skill, it would be padding 15 minutes of actual entertainment into a full-blown hour-long…
Sunday night, Gleeks across America were simultaneously zapped. Or so it seemed as girl Gleeks in attendance at O Cinema fawned over Chris Colfer during the live webcast that followed the preview screening of his film, Struck By Lightning.Twenty-six theaters across the country previewed the film before its official release…
“Miami, the Kardashians are here!” It’s a warning, a threat, a declaration of citywide takeover, another step in the reality tv family’s march to worldwide domination. But it’s also the line that opens E!’s new preview of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, shouted by chipmunk-voiced new baby mama Kim Kardashian…
It’s been seven long months since we last saw Ike Evans and Ben Diamond battle it out over the business of high-end hotels and mob dealings on Magic City on TV. But if you were in South Beach or downtown during December, there’s a good chance you got to see…
Cynics will think they know everything about Texas Chainsaw 3D solely from its title. To that, we say, “Maybe, but do you know which three dimensions it’s in?” (Okay, fine. Unless you’re Buckaroo Banzai, it’s probably the three you were suspecting.) Which isn’t to say there aren’t surprises in the…
For most people, wrestling deadly swamp-dwellers is the stuff nightmares are made of, but for the Gator Boys, it’s all in a day’s work. These South Florida-based wranglers are famous for capturing nuisance alligators in the Everglades, and last year the antics of Paul Bedard, Jimmy Riffle and team became…
If you whip out your dictionary and turn to the word “reunion,” you will find a definition that reads: the act of uniting again. Please note that that definition includes no mention of Andy Cohen, Bravo, or bitches acting as though they are on bath salts in a ball gown…
Even with all the guts, chainsaws, and shapely rumps thrust in the audience’s face during Texas Chainsaw 3D, the film could have very nearly taken on a wholly different tone. The effects were so realistic, according to star Alexandra Daddario, because “they were the same special effects [used by] people…
It’s senior year of high school, and all any kid is thinking about is making it to graduation, the first real milestone for a young adult. These years require, in essence, survival of the most awkward and angsty times of your life. But tough titties, because sometimes a lightning bolt…
To most viewers, the celebrity-studded “Demand a Plan” public service announcement video released in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was just an instance of Hollywood adding its voice to the nationwide cry for change. But at least one person, a YouTube user calling himself…
Tyra Banks groupies and Giselle wannabes, start boning up on your catwalk strut.America’s Next Top Model is looking for few runway hotties in South Florida, and for the first time ever, that includes dudes. The reality TV standby, which has been on the air a whopping 10 years as of…
2012 Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll
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Best Film: The Master Best Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, The Master Best Supporting Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike Best Undistributed Film: Everybody in Our Family Best Documentary: This Is Not a Film Best First Feature: Beasts…
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