By The Editors 11/22/11 10:17am

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Malkovich.

Thanks Heaven

With turkey season around the corner, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the things for which we’re grateful. (Christmas/Hanukkah is better spent getting sauced, and New Year’s Eve is the time for making New Year’s resolutions with week-long expiration dates.) For those of us at The New York Observer, it’s hard to choose just what we’re the most thankful for. Is it the Occupy Wall Street movement, for providing us with a rich number of stories to cover for the past two months? Or should we be thanking Josh Schwartz & Co. over at Gossip Girl—which celebrated its 100th episode with a party at Cipriani this weekend—for introducing the nation to our very own “Power Couples” list? Read More

By Lee Siegel 8/18/10 1:11am

The Last Critic

I Scorn iPorn! My Secret Garden: Organic Soil

When I was a boy, “dirty” was the epithet of choice for the hated other. It wasn’t enough to call someone any of the slurs for being Jewish or black or Latino. You had to put “dirty” before it.

The genealogy of the insult was firmly established in the history of the world. Your tribe-your Read More

By Rex Reed 3/18/09 8:58pm

Do You Believe in Malkovich Magic?

The Great Buck Howard
Running time 87 minutes
Written and directed by Sean McGinly
Starring Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt

In The Great Buck Howard, John Malkovich finally plays one of his most accessible roles in one of his least pretentious films. I don’t even like movies about young mentalists, mediums, Read More

By Andrew Sarris 9/09/08 6:55pm

Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading Is Too Hot to Handle!

Burn After Reading
Running time 96 minutes
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I’ve ever seen. What Read More

By Staff, Staff 2/13/06 12:00am

The Transom

Meet Mrs. Mudd

“Mr. Mudd was a gentleman who was John’s driver during the shooting of The Killing Fields,” said Francesco Rulli, referring to his business partner, the actor John Malkovich. “He was apparently a murder convict and had just come out of prison. And one day they were driving very fast down this dirt Read More