Film

Daniel Radcliffe vs James Franco in a Ginsberg-off? Its possible. (Via Harry Potter and Howl)

Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg? A History of ‘Howl’-ing Portrayals (Video)

James Franco (and David Cross, John Turturro, et al) have reason to be worried: Harry Potter is about to smash your portrayal of New York beat poet Allen Ginsberg into dust. Daniel Radcliffe, fresh from filming the Victorian horror flick The Woman In Black has reportedly joined the cast of Kill Your Darlings (not to be confused with the 2006 flick with the same name) as the famous (and infamous) part of Jack Kerouac/Ginsberg/Lucien Carr trio. Read More

Time After Time

The Time Traveler’s Wife
Running time 107 minutes
Written by Bruce Joel Rubin
Directed by Robert Schwentke
Starring Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston

In the boring, benign and inconsequential transfer from best seller to film of The Time Traveler’s Wife, an adventurous Chicago librarian is cursed with a genetic mutation that Read More

Single Person’s Movie: Office Space

It’s 2 AM 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 movie to keep you Read More

Mr. Livingston, I Presume

HOLLY
Running Time 114 minutes
Written by Guy Jacobson and Guy Moshe
Directed by Guy Moshe
Starring Ron Livingston and Thuy Nguyen

MUSIC WITHIN
Running Time 94 minutes
Written by Bret McKinney, Mark A. Olsen and Kelly Kennemer
Directed by Steven Sawalich
Starring Ron Livingston Read More

Mr. Office Space Meets Neil LaBute

It somehow doesn’t come as a surprise that Ron Livingston is the kind of celebrity that takes the subway. Last week, the amiable 39-year-old actor rode the No. 6 train downtown, straight from rehearsing the new Neil LaBute play, In a Dark, Dark House, an MCC Theater production which starts previews at the Lucille Lortel Read More

Ty’s House

As the “team leader” on the ABC program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ty Pennington, late of the Learning Channel’s Trading Spaces, might be one of reality TV’s few break-out stars. The Sunday night show is a smash, literally: Headed by the 39-year-old Mr. Pennington-a self-proclaimed “handy guy” with an impressive physique and a little soul Read More