Martin Scorsese and a big gold pizza. (DGA photo) In honor of Martin Scorsese's victory at the Director's Guild over the weekend, here's another poll using a different software application. This one's more compact: Just use the drop-down box and…
View image Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland." The New York Times asks: Which Best Actor Oscar nominee is the bestest articulater: Whitaker or Peter O'Toole? (Answer: Neither.) Senator Joseph Biden praised (or faintly damned)…
BAD WORD WARNING: In a world where people are stupid enough to mistake a childrens' lightbox toy displaying the likeness of a cartoon character (which looks no more sinister than any random Pac Man-era video-game pixel blob) for a bomb…
Don't ask me how I came up with these dozen options -- that's all the software allows, and these were the ones I thought of -- either because they were popular, conspicuous, or got some year-end recognition. (So sorry to…
View image Sarah Silverman in "Jesus Is Magic." Her Comedy Central sitcom, "The Sarah Silverman Program," begins Thursday at 10:30 p.m. (9:30 Central). I love Sarah Silverman and A.O. Scott all the more for this, from today's New York Times:…
Laura Dern in "Inland Empire": A Woman in Trouble is a Temporal Thing. My review of David Lynch's "Inland Empire" in the Chicago Sun-Times and on RogerEbert.com today: Put on the watch. Light the cigarette, fold back the silk, and…
Mr. Lazarescu pukes blood strings on his living room rug. He is not at all well. Critics, filmmakers and pundits have been writing quite a bit over the last few years about what "digital" means for the future of cinema,…
Raping Dakota and Feeling Minnesota: Despite all the publicity, "Hounddog" ain't nothin' but a dog, say critics. It's not dangerous, after all. "As its poster and advertising remind us, "Quinceañera" won both the jury and audience prizes at the 2006…
"I'm there right now": The lost highway goes down Mulholland Drive and through the Inland Empire... It is possible that many people would not describe David Lynch's movies as "straightforward," but they're really pretty simple to grasp if you think…
Supporting actress nominee Rinko Kikuchi (center) plays a deaf girl in "Babel." Here's Roger Ebert's analysis of this morning's Oscar nominations: Oscar is growing more diverse and international by the year. This year's Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday, contain a…
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