Before the Fyre Festival was an epic flop it was an astonishingly stupid, impossible idea its founders sold with their signature combination of heavy-handed hyperbole, ineptitude and utter shamelessness.
Read MoreThe master builders over at Lord-Miller have assembled another clever, riotously funny winner.
Read MoreSurviving R. Kelly got me to reflecting back on an epic piece I wrote about R. Kelly and Jay-Z’s doomed collaboration. Plus, a beginner’s guide to Kanye West!
Read MoreFor the love of God, why does anyone think they can get away with doing blackface in 2019?
Read MoreLars Von Trier took a brief break from punishing audiences and the world for 2006’s The Boss of It All, a surprisingly straightforward solidly funny and extremely inventive workplace comedy that suggests what it might look like if Von Trier directed The Office or remade a Francis Veber farce.
Read MoreRemembering one of the all-time greats.
Read MoreListening to Still Dwelling, Neil Hamburger’s latest album of stone-cold bummers, prompted a realization about the fundamental nature of comedy.
Read MoreSam Peckinpah’s career as a Western auteur kicked into his gear with his brilliant second film, the achingly sad, beautiful 1962 western Ride the High Country, which gave long in the tooth cowpokes Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea obscenely juicy roles to play.
Read MoreTo celebrate the amazing Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of Elaine May’s Mikey & Nicky, which I somehow got to write the liner notes for, we’re giving away a copy to one erudite reader/commenter.
Read MoreWe Hate Movies’ Eric Szyszka joins us to talk the worst of M. Night Shyamalan (Glass, The Happening) and humanity (the Fyre Festival).
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