In an exclusive interview with ‘EXTRA’, Joaquin Phoenix announced he’s quitting acting. While discussing his upcoming film, Two Lovers (a drama co-starring Gwynneth Paltrow), Phoenix had the following to say...

Like all of Wes Anderson’s pictures, Fantastic Mr. Fox dances between meaningful and artificial. Often the directors detractors spend too much time on the latter, and perhaps miss the immense character detail revealed in their diorama surroundings and...

**~~~ (2/5) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome opens with Max (Mel Gibson) tearing across the desert in a motorless truck, pulled by a team of camels. The poor man’s sure been downgraded. I mean, The Road Warrior (1981) had more engine-gunning than...

Nick Cave: musician, songwriter, novelist, screenwriter. Is there anything this man can’t do and do extremely well? Anyone that is familiar with his music undoubtedly knows his brilliant work with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (if not, here’s just a...

I have cut and pasted an interesting conversation with friends over on facebook. It comes down to the attachment people feel to a genre (pragmatic or fanboy) and how when something warps it outside your perceived safe-zone (Jumping the shark if you...

The Thin Man, playing on TCM at noon at Saturday   Ach. TCM is trying to kill us this week. Prepare your DVRs. In addition to a great slate of repeating content, we have a slew of new stuff. Like both versions of Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too...