By Drew Grant 10/05/12 8:30am

Big Apple Idolatry

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Big Apple Idolatry: Seinfeld’s Return, Scott Stapp’s Creed-O on Steven Tyler and T.I.

— Oh yeah, Chris Brown and Rihanna are definitely back together. He even dumped his girlfriend the night before going to a Jay-Z concert with his ex. At this point, we just hope for the best for these two, or at least that there’s a good laser tattoo removal place nearby.

— That letter in The New York Times was no coincidence: Jerry Seinfeld is touring in New York again. (For a better letter to the paper, read his 1999 defense of the Upper West Side.) Read More

By Rex Reed 1/24/12 7:47pm

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Liam Neeson

The Grey Sees Unlikely Brothers Band Together ‘Neath Darkness of Primordial Instincts

Prepare to be devastated. Films of hair-raising terror about people doing unspeakable things to each other are a dime a dozen, usually with a built-in hole in their armor (people can always outsmart people). But movies about helpless humans versus uncontrollable nature are rare. A new one called The Grey, about the survivors of an airplane crash in the frozen wastes of Alaska at the mercy of carnivorous wolves, is the movie equivalent of a wet finger in a hot socket.

This is the scariest wilderness survival movie about men stalked by animals since Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins landed on the menu of a bloodthirsty, 10-ton grizzly in Lee Tamahori’s 1997 thriller The Edge, written by David Mamet. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/18/11 6:24pm

Occupy Wall Street

Batman versus Anonymous

Would Batman Protect the 99 %?

It just keeps rolling in today: first MTV decided that when seven strangers get together and stop being polite and start being real, at least one of them should be protesting in Zuccotti Park. Now a tipster “involved in the production” of Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises has leaked to The LA Times that Liberty Plaza would be a great backdrop in Gotham.

But are these the smelly hippies that are city deserves? Would the Batman tolerate the General Assembly? Let’s discuss! Read More

By Rex Reed 2/16/11 1:26am

movies

Movie Review: “Unknown” is Better Left That Way

A fine actor who has played everyone from Oscar Wilde to Alfred Kinsey with great acclaim, Liam Neeson seems to have embarked on a new career of making one cheesy bomb after another. Maybe he’s bored. Maybe he just wants to soak up the money and throw in the bath mat. Maybe he needs to Read More

By Chloe Malle 8/23/10 9:11pm

Liam Neeson Sells C.P.W. Apartment

Irish-American actor Liam Neeson (the Schindler’s List lead became a U.S. citizen a year ago) recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million, say city records.

And while the 2,300-square-foot corner apartment sold for slightly less than the listing price of $1.375 million, it only lingered on the market Read More

By Rex Reed 4/08/10 4:30pm

Dead Girl Walking

After.Life, with a pretentious point between the two words in the title for no explainable reason, is a horror film with a macabre style but few of the creepy chills of cheaper, cliché-riddled thrillers that are a dime a dozen these days. That is not a recommendation, just a mild salutation to writer-director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 4/02/10 12:30pm

The Backstory: Clash of the Titans 3D

Thinking of joining the herd and seeing Clash of the Titans 3D this weekend? Here, five pieces of information that may make things a little more interesting.

3D or not to 3D?

Trying to capitalize on the boon of 3D releases—the only non-3D films to lead the box office in 2010 are Dear John, Shutter Read More