Interview

Interview spoke to director/artist Steve McQueen, who previously directed Fassbender in McQueen's debut feature, Hunger, about speaking to sex addicts, the NC-17 rating slapped on the movie, and the painful period after he finishes a film.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/02/11

This week: Haywire vs. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, two spy thrillers about betrayal, redemption, and lots and lots of violence in between.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/01/11

The quiet and haunting Sleeping Beauty, written and directed by Australian novelist Julia Leigh, isn't simply a modern retelling of the classic story. The film follows the descent of Lucy, played with gusto by the young actress Emily Browning, into the shadow world of high-class-and-kink sex work.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/01/11

More than 40 years after it was shot on a beach in California, Andy Warhol’s lost film, San Diego Surf, finally makes its debut.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/01/11

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the subject of a new documentary by German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi, was said, at one point, to be the richest man in the world under 40 and on his way to being the richest man in the world, period.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/11

Off screen, Scarlett Johansson has never sought the spotlight, but she certainly knows how to command it−a skill that came in handy over the past year as the breakup of her marriage and an electronic-hacking scandal transformed some very personal aspects of her private life into very public tabloid fodder. Here, the actress opens up about her newfound insight into the faustian bargain of fame, the importance of maintaining a little bit of mystery, and why, when it comes to what really matters to her, she’ll never, ever run away and hide.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/27/11

The title of Madeline Olnek's first feature film, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, reads like a personal ad from The Twilight Zone. But it actually refers to a family-friendly lesbian sci-fi movie in which a trio of extraterrestrials believes their emotions are ripping holes in the ozone.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/23/11

Something is bubbling under the surface of A Dangerous Method, and it comes raging to ground level from the most unlikely of places—Keira Knightley, the princess of period pieces, subverting her prim and proper image.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/21/11

"It's a love letter to the movies!" actress Penelope Ann Miller declared last night at the Peggy Siegal Company premiere of Michel Hazanavicius' much-anticipated Cannes hit The Artist.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/18/11

While George Clooney is front and center in The Descendants, the name on the marquee, his performance is enhanced by the rich and essential supporting actors that surround him. Most surprising is the work of Nick Krause, playing the dim-witted but affable Sid, a broad comic character that in the wrong hands could have been a one-note joke but is played by the young actor with gentleness and emotional depth.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/18/11