By Daniel D'Addario 1/24/12 9:23am

The Oscars

Academy Award Nominee Rooney Mara

Hugo Leads Oscar Race With 11 Nominations

This morning, thousands upon tens of New Yorkers are realizing they have to go see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, as that film was announced as one of nine Oscar Best Picture nominees.

Big surprises of the morning included that film’s nomination for Best Picture, the inclusion of Best Actor nominees Demian Bichir and Gary Read More

By Foster Kamer 9/20/11 11:11am

There's No Crying In Baseball

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Moneyball Advertising Irking Feminist Sensibilities: "Tell Your Guy It's A Baseball Movie"

Michael Lewis’ math-nerds-on-steroids baseball book Moneyball hits theaters on Friday with a whole bunch of buzz behind it! Mainly, (1) Brad Pitt’s an Oscar contender for his performance, but (2) in retrospect the book’s legacy and value to the sport of baseball is chronically overvalued and widely misunderstood. Now it has a new kind of buzz: pissed-off women insulted by the idea that they can’t enjoy a baseball movie! Read More

By Christopher Rosen 7/13/10 12:42pm

Moneyball Sounding Surprisingly Money

Maybe Moneyball won’t be so bad after all? It was just a year ago when the adaptation of Michael Lewis’ seemingly unadaptable baseball tome was all abuzz. That version — with Brad Pitt lined up to play the book’s central figure, Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane — was to be helmed by Steven Read More

By Christopher Rosen 7/30/09 1:27pm

Single Person’s Movie: Death Proof

It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.

Need a Read More

By Allen Barra 7/10/09 12:49pm

This Was a Movie Project?

You may have heard that Sony Pictures “dropped the ball” or “struck out” (depending on which baseball cliché jumped into a writer’s head) on a film version of Michael Lewis’ best-seller, Moneyball. The film was set to star Brad Pitt with Steven Soderbergh directing. 

The reasons behind Sony’s decision appear to Read More

By Josh Benson 5/14/09 4:17pm

The Goo Goo Thing

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
By Michael Lewis
Norton, 190 pages, $23.95

Here are some things I’ve learned since becoming a father:

—The Queens Zoo is a wholesome and inexpensive place to take two boys, ages 1 and 3, on weekends. Also: It is fine for boys that age to ride the Read More