Bruce Willis

After Auteur: How M. Night Shyamalan Became Just Another Director

Quick -- name the new M. Night Shyamalan summer blockbuster.

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

Die Hard, Die Alone

When John McClane lost his family, the movies lost much of John McClane

Die Hard's latest breaks new ground in incoherence and stupidity

Looper makes time travel thrilling

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis deftly juggle complexity and action

Minneapolis is a great city for bald single men, study says

Bald is beautiful. At least here in Minneapolis, apparently.A new study by OurTime.com, an online dating site for singles aged 50-plus, ranked the top 10 cities where bald men have the most dating success with women, and Minneapolis came in fourth, according to the Huffington Post.The Huff Post cite ... More >>

A farewell to New Labor

Saturday is the end of New Labor. While their farewell show marks a bittersweet moment for the band, who formed in 2008 and have self-released two 7" records. The DIY band not only did their own records, but booked their own shows and designed and printed posters, t-shirts, and artwork all with a no ... More >>

Movies much anticipated in 2012

Red Tails, This Is Forty, and more

The Onion shaves off Tim Pawlenty's body hair: Photoshop of the Day

The Onion gives Tim Pawlenty a campaign makeover.​The rap on Tim Pawlenty is that he's too boring and too nice to run for the White House -- also, he's somewhat of a wimp, it turns out. But that's all changing. The Onion is reporting that he tried to change up his image by copping the chrome ... More >>

Helen Mirren in Red

She's just one of this film's bad-ass old people

Sex and semantics

In search of something less silly

Furry Vengeance has a message—and not much else

This just in: People do bad stuff to the planet

Surfer Blood's "Twin Peaks": demand it live

​Fess-up time: almost everything I know about Twin Peaks -- David Lynch's surrealist, televised take on fear, loathing, and murder in a fictional Washington state community -- I learned from Greil Marcus's excellent societal survey course The Shape of Things to Come. Here's what I do know for sure ... More >>

Weekend movie guide: See it or flee it?

You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

Kevin Smith's Cop Out

Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, and Jason Lee star

The Wet Spot: To pocket p*ssy, or not to pocket p*ssy

Weirdest. Wedding gift. Ever.

Kevin Costner & Modern West

Kevin Costner (yep, that one), Private Dancer, and more

Superzero

Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

'The Bank Job': Too much fun to fact-check

Is the heist flick true or false? Who cares?

Kevin McHale: Too sleepy for his own good

Past Action Hero

Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just...old

Get Inside—It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

4/17 Morning Communiqué

12/20 Morning Communiqué

12/15 Morning Communiqué

There's the Beef

'Fast Food Nation' may turn you off burgers for good

2/16: Morning Communique

11/14: Morning Communique

Charles Rocket, 1949-2005

The Encyclopedist of the Grind House: Tarantino on Film

Bringing Out The Dead

Frank Miller's 'Sin City' expands nationwide

There's no city like Sin City

Bigger Than Ebert

Is David Thomson the world's greatest film critic?

Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

'Solaris' favors faith and reality over science fiction

Children of the Corn

'Signs' offers more hints of Mel Gibson's paternal feelings

Night Falls

Unbreakable's writer-director is far from infallible

The Harsher They Come

Chris Carter's latest slice of millennial dread, Harsh Realm, takes the fun out of the apocalypse

$800-an-Hour John

Being John Malkovich is easier done than said

The Evil That Pop Ironists Do

The afterlife cop drama G. vs. E runs up against the mortality of hipness

Film for Art's Sake

Fighting Back

Knave Gazing

To the Landfill

Space Balls

Shooting Pain

Set it off: Takeshi Kitano in Fireworks

Inspecting the Cannes

In its 50th year, is the world's most prestigious film festival showing its age?

THE OTHER VOTE

There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

Shrug-Of-War

Ape Fear