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Alberto Moravia's bloated novel Contempt and Jean-Luc Godard's masterful, transcendent cinema adaptation.
On The Divine Tragedy's pop culture corrective and the sappy nihilism of Club Kid.
Left-wing celebrators are shoveling dirt over MAGA, while cooler Republican heads are betting on a far-left Democrat overreach.
Politics always moves in cycles. What year is it (#657)?
Fjord is an on-the-nose, but nonetheless compelling “movie of the moment.”
Godzilla Minus Zero is another entertaining (albeit overstuffed) entry in the beloved franchise.
A 1973 Richard Schickel interview with filmmaker Frank Capra vs. a 2019 Thrasher Magazine interview with rapper and entrepreneur Earl “E-40” Stevens.
On Josef von Sternberg's overlooked The Shanghai Gesture (1941).
It's forcing Muslims to integrate into their society.
Learning what it’s like to work for “an intense marionette artist” like David Fincher.
The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable is a one-sided documentary with mixed messages.
Watching The Cat in the Cat, you get a distinct sense that the filmmakers resent the material and would rather be making a Pixar movie.
Japanese author Ryu Murakami has died at age 74; he will be remembered for his visceral novels having hyper-realistic reflections of modern society.
It’s not manly or unmanly to want to turn off your brain in the bedroom and feel owned and taken.
A pundit reflects.
That's my advice to you, young man.
This isn’t The Bourne Identity where all the characters have unlimited stamina and years of instinctual training.
The hour-long format is being treated as an afterthought.
The Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons and Mojave mojo.
Five letters, six guesses, and millions of people convinced they’re smarter than their friends.
And then they woke up, for a while.
The actress talks about Éric Rohmer, Jacques Tati, The Elephant Man, 3 Women, and more.
Candid footage of the iconic actress outside of her apartment in May 1962.
The band play the entirety of their 2005 classic Feels in Pomona on October 26, 2026.
The band perform "Sweet Lover Hangover" in this May 1, 1996 episode of Late Night.
The pop sensation extols the virtues of UHA Mikakuto Gummy Candy in this 1999 television commercial.
The author talks about heroin and how it worked for him.
The artist talks to Much Music about her album Bedtime Stories, fame, sexism, and more in this recently remastered interview.
From the double A-side single "Crazy" b/w "Woman With No Weaknesses."
The late author talks about his 1987 masterpiece The Bonfire of the Vanities.
The iconic singer-songwriter talks to Stern in this nearly two hour interview.
The maestro of Black Dice plays a solo set at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA on September 20, 2013.