That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

Apparently some pundits have become upset about the Watchmen movie. In case some of you think that this is a "superhero" movie, let me disabuse you of that mistake. One: Its based on a VERY dark graphic novel. If you haven't read it, hit up your neighborhood comic book store. (I recommend Dave's Com...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a n...

John Paul Kinhart's documentary "Blood, Boobs, and Beast" is a loving tribute to the filmmaker Don Dohler. Don who you say? Well Dohler was a filmmaker who gained some prominence back in the early 70's and 80's for his B-films. He is most known for such films as "The Alien Factor", "Fiend", and "Nig...

Terminally unemployed beer heiress Meghan McCain continues her very weird too-much-information blogging at Tina Brown’s secret charity project for the rich, The Daily Beast. Today, we learn how she is just not getting laid at all, and she is NOT turned on by Obama supporters (because they hate...

Jill Thompson posted some more preview art from Beasts of Burden #1 on her blog, including one of my favorite pages from the issue, a silent three-panel affair featuring the main cast searching the woods. There's also a photo of Em and her friend Josie reading Jill's Magic Trixie books at NYCC. I th...

Not a good day for the Twitterati! Dan Abrams found himself stalked by a coworker. Perma-perky PR person Brooke Hammerling got bummed out. And an underling of Tina Brown faced up to an unwelcome chore: Daily Beast West Coast editor Tom Tapp did his laundry at 11 a.m. Reporter-pimping rapscallion Dan...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty . CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour . NBC has the special Secrets of the Furious Five at 8, followed by a new Kath & Kim . FOX has a new American Idol a...

Not that Jossip is the arbiter of what's real nowadays -- in spite of it being a snarkily fun read -- but I couldn't help but notice it's antagonistic (if not anachronistic) view of the PR profession. In a post titled "J-School to Public Relations: Selling Out or Buying In?," the Gawker/Defamer wann...

On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...