If there is one thing we have learned about these this season of basketball wives, it’s that there is no shame in their game. Only days before, they were physically assaulting one another (or trying to at least). And on last night’s episode, they just have a nice little day…
Last night was a big night for television lovers. First, Miss America was on. But who really cares about beauty pageants if it’s not Toddlers & Tiaras? Then, our personal favorite Big Love was back on. (We love ourselves some polygamy, what can we say?) Then, there was the Golden…
Generously bankrolled, then shelved, by an imperiled Weinstein Co. and peopled with Oscar nominees, All Good Things might be called an upscale version of straight-to-cable true crime crap — only that would make it sound more entertaining than it is. The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of 2003’s…
Derek Cianfrance’s divorce drama Blue Valentine is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from too-cute introduction to irreconcilable differences in just over half a decade. Starting with the present-day married-with-kid Dean and Cindy, Cianfrance weaves long flashbacks of Dean and Cindy’s early days through…
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry’s 3-D spectacle, The Green Hornet. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the mid-January dead zone, this long-germinating prospective franchise, based on a character that first saturated the nation’s radio waves in 1939, seems pretty much DOA — although in the absence of…
The new year means a lot of things for a lot of people: maybe loose some weight, be a better friend, have more sex, stop smoking so much weed, etc. And for all you singles out there, we’re going to guess finding l-o-v-e is also on that list–maybe even above…
Thanks to demure, well-respected celebrities like Pam Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Vanessa Hudgens, leaked celeb nudes are old hats. So why post about yet another one, involving a Jersey Shore cast member? Especially on this fine arts blog? Because this particular instance really sets our fingers aflame.According to an exclusive…
Everyone catch last night’s episode of Basketball Wives? Looks like Suzie Ketcham is alone in this Basketball Wives game. Gloria Govan is leaving her ass for L.A., and Tami Roman said she pretty much would rather hang with Shaunie O’Neal, Evelyn Lozada, and Jennifer Williams over Suzie any day of…
White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is unspecified. The subject is the collapse of an unnamed West African state, and the protagonist, Maria, a French settler unflinchingly played by Isabelle Huppert, is the proprietress of a family-run coffee plantation. White Material…
The late George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “You’re either a big-leaguer or you’re a slave clawing your way onto the C train,” the avid antihero (Kevin Spacey) tells his mirrored reflection in the pre-credit sequence;…
As opposed to Basketball Wives, where the featured ladies aren’t actually wives, the women of Bad Girls Club Miami are living up to their show name by being up to no good. In November, we told you how Catya Washington (AKA Cat or as she was known “The Elite Player”)…
On last night’s episode three of Basketball Wives, a lunch finally comes to blows. Suzie and Gloria’s nice day of lunching to discuss the ladies turns into a full-blown ambush by the Wives. The highlight of the entire episode had to be when Suzie explains to Gloria that the ladies…
Annie and Darren’s love for one another is genuine and their friendship deep. But trouble seems to be brewing beneath the surface. The loving wedded couple, it seems, have lost their lust for each other. Instead of consummating a spontaneous moment of passion, the two begin debating when the last time…
Terrorists are people too. And they can be as idiotic as the rest of us, if not more so. In the film Four Lions, which opens at the Cosford Cinema on Friday, British humorist Chris Morris compiles a troupe of fictional wannabe jihadists a la Three Stooges and Marx Brothers…
In The Freebie, writer and director Katie Aselton (who also plays Annie) gives us an affable, thought-provoking glimpse into the dilemma every married or long-time couple faces: What do you do when the thrill is gone? Can you break your fidelity for a moment, scratch the itch, and come out…
Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has spent a decade stuck in the mailroom of a New York City newspaper before blundering and plagiarizing his way into a travel-writing assignment that lands him, en route to the Bermuda Triangle, in Lilliput. Black’s playing a “Gulliver,” but while sharing disproportionate size with Jonathan…
When we wrote our Who’s Who of Season 2 of Basketball Wives, there were only six wives (well, quasi wives) on the show. But last week, the puppet masters behind our new favorite reality show introduced three more ladies. And as there was no new episode of Basketball Wives last…
We recently released our picks for the ten best films of 2010, written by LA Weekly film critic Karina Longworth. And as soon as we saw Greenberg (the pick for the second best film of the year), we knew this list was trouble. Was Greenberg good? Yes. Was it also…
Since we’re a heartbeat away from being sick-to-death of this month’s crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we’ve decided to cast a quick glance forward to the ten 2011 films we’re excited to see. We’ve seen some of the below, and make no promises for the others, but, as ever, we’re hopeful…
Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel, reminded her while she was there shooting her new film, Somewhere. It’s the first feature to be granted clearance to shoot extensively inside the rooms…
10. Enter the Void I can’t fully condone director Gaspar Noe’s trip—in my review, I called it a “mashup of the sacred, the profane, and the brain-dead,” and I stand by that. But I’ve come to appreciate its stoner stoopidness as part of its charm. And nothing else in 2010…
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza, The King’s Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably amusing inspirational drama that successfully humanizes, even as it pokes fun at, the House of Windsor. The story is a good one: shy, young prince helped by irascible wizard to break an…
