With incredibly strong central performances and thematically dense subject matter,
“Masters of Sex,” a drama about sex researchers Masters and Johnson, serves as a nice partner to Showtime’s returning
“Homeland.”
Ten of the oddest baseball movies ever, just in time for the playoffs.
Lou Godfrey reflects on his memories of his mother and their movie-going.
Popular Science shuts off its comments; a letter to Grand Theft Auto’s progagonist Niko Bellic; why “Man of Steel” co-writer doesn’t buy into a no-kill policy for Superman; a new theater resurrects lost musicals; odd habits of famous writers.
A case for abolishing apostrophes; new Newsweek owner accused of labor violations; why we need a documentary about the D.C. snipers (sorry, “Blue Caprice”); a PBS exec kvells over literary adaptations; who really writes letters to the editor?
An online community for men who believe female oppression is a myth; a thick glass ceiling for women conductors; how “Breaking Bad” redeemed its worst mistakes; Britt Ekland talks shop (and Sellers); NY regulators crack down on fake Internet reviews.
Inside the Kenyan mall massacre; the death toll of acetaminophen; that heartwarming story of the pastor who posed as a homeless man is a fake; one person who’s really glad that Breaking Bad is ending; ten great movies set in museums.
How popular culture lies about criminal justice; why Stephen Fry won’t quit Twitter; sex addiction cinema; funerals for fallen robots; Gen Y has had just about enough of your lectures.
Writer Sheila O’Malley responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Is it worth seeing “The Wizard of Oz” in the new IMAX 3D presentation?
Why “Breaking Bad” viewers whitewash Walter White; Pandora just got worse for musicians; U.S. home care aides to be covered by labor laws; N.J.’s ban on self-serve gasoline; the world’s first invisible tower; James Franco on all book covers.
After spending years in the long comedy shadow of regular collaborator and scene-stealer Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant steps into the awkward spotlight of HBO’s new comedy “Hello Ladies.”
“Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and
Transformative Era” is a remarkable collection of reviews and essays
from critic Peter Rainer. This essay on film noir and neo-noir is excerpted from the book.
Extraterrestrial life may really exist; House Republicans slash billions in food stamps; “Invisible Man” banned in North Carolina; an object of Internet ridicule speaks; Hollywood luminaries who got their start with Roger Corman.
The sounds of ‘Twin Peaks’; the case for Internet newsletters; Jonathan Franzen is very, very angry; rethinking headphones; an app for building a database of everyone’s dreams.
Mamet’s screenwriting career, the hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in detail, why creatives are good for the economy, how Facebook keeps you from quitting, the political economy of zombies.
More debate about the future of U.S. healthcare reform; Twitch Film apologizes to director Sono Sion; friends don’t let friends remake “Ben-Hur”; how television does better by women than movies do; deconstructing a “Carlito’s Way” scene.
The 1963 Birmingham bombing, observed; J.D. Salinger as seen by Joyce Maynard; Roman Polanski as seen by Samantha Geimer; the impossibility of ending a great TV drama; R.I.P. Mr. Dolby.
We catch up with Irv Slifkin, the man behind MONDO MEYER, a Philadelphia event celebrating the work of filmmaker Russ Meyer.
This excerpt from James Greenberg’s “Roman Polanski: A Retrospective” looks at Polanski’s breakthrough American film “Rosemary’s Baby.”
