By Drew Grant 1/08 1:23pm

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Adrien Brody in InAPPropriate Comedy (YouTube)

Adrien Brody and Lindsay Lohan Star in ‘Comedy’ by ShamWow!’s Prostitute-Beating Vince Offer (Video)

Did you ever wonder where late night infomercial hosts go after they ruin their career? I know I sure do! And now, thanks to InAPPropriate Comedy, the brainchild of ShamWow!’s Vince Offer, a man who was once arrested on felony battery charges after hitting a 26-year-old prostitute on Miami Beach. It’s rude, it’s crude, it definitely stole a font from CollegeHumor.com, and it also stars Adrien Brody.

Obviously, this will be an outstanding feature, remembered in the pantheon of films as being “like the Scary Movie franchise, but way worse.” Read More

By Rex Reed 3/13/12 7:33pm

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Detachment: Rancorous Portrayal of Noble Profession Lectures Incoherently and Fails Narrative 101

Detachment is the latest curiosity from London-born singer-songwriter-painter-film director Tony Kaye, whose first film, a violent exposé of neo-Nazism called American History X, caused a minor sensation in 1998. This one is about a month in the life of a different kind of tortured, alienated soul—the substitute teacher. It opens March 16 but like a flight to nowhere, it’s already available for preboarding on television, where you can catch it anytime on Video on Demand. Read More

By Rex Reed 5/19/09 11:00am

Boo on The Brothers Bloom!

Duh.  From the “What were they thinking of?” school of wasted opportunities comes a disaster called The Brothers Bloom, a dismal second feature by writer-director Rian Johnson, whose first film was the moronic, quickly forgotten Brick. Working with a bigger budget and three major stars hasn’t sharpened his observations or quickened his fading pulse one Read More

By polspot 11/11/08 5:38pm

Queen B

On a recent sunny autumn afternoon, Beyoncé Knowles—singer, actress, full-time superstar—was sitting coiled on a sofa in the penthouse suite of the Soho Grand hotel. The “hottest chick in the game” (as she is referred to in verse by her longtime paramour, Jay-Z) looked young, fresh-faced and wholly honey-hued, with minimal makeup and her dark Read More

By David Foxley 9/25/07 6:23pm

Welcome to Wes World

“I’m not going to theorize on what the symbolism of luggage is,” said the designer Marc Jacobs in a smoky, lilting voice. Speaking on the phone from his office in Paris, Mr. Jacobs was talking about the candy-colored Louis Vuitton impedimenta he created for Wes Anderson’s new film, The Darjeeling Limited.

The luggage epitomizes Read More