Slumdog Millionaire was the runaway winner at the 81st Academy Awards last night. Danny Boyle's Mumbai-set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, winning best picture, best director, and best adapted screenplay among others. It seemed nothing, not even poten...

  In this week's New York Magazine, prediction guru Nate Silver made some oddball predictions, choosing mathematical calculations done on his computer instead of using common sense. We were baffled by one of his chooses, while he wisely stayed away from all of the categories in which the ra...

In Rolling Stone (February 19, 2009), Sean Penn is interviewed at length about...well, everything! We're treated to storytelling about some of his most famous movies, what it was like working with Eastwood and Allen, the death of brother Chris, how he felt about the Tropic Thunder "full ret...

The National Arts Club was filled with balloon animals and art-world notables last night for the club’s Gold Medal of Honor awards presentation to artist Jeff Koons. We asked about future plans for his work. “I am always wanting to prove myself to myself,� he said, smiling. He wore a somewhat ...

On a recent Wednesday evening, Robert was with a client in Greenwich Village. It was a first-timer who’d called him a few days earlier to arrange a meeting at a bar on 9th Street so they could speak face-to-face before closing the deal he'd proposed earlier. When Robert arrived, the man, in his mi...

When Judd Apatow first met James Franco around 10 years ago, he thought the 20-year-old was funny, strange, skinny and very greasy. He couldn't understand why women found him so attractive. Still, the producer cast the intense young actor in Freaks And Geeks, a critically acclaimed American televisi...

In November 2008, a temporary museum materialised in a storefront on the corner of Castro and 18th streets in San Francisco. Timed to coincide with the opening of Gus van Sant's Milk on the same block, its exhibition, Passionate Struggle, traced the history of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen...

While there is much in flux about Gus Van Sant’s upcoming adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s Zeitgeist-defining book, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,� which centers on the LSD-infused cross-country road trip that novelist Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters took in the 1960s, the director is certain...

There's a lot to recommend Gus Van Sant's Milk on political and historical grounds. But for reasons both diverting and serious Sean Penn's smile binds it together and lifts it up. Penn's performance as Harvey Milk is a wonder all around -- he is by turns impassioned, thoughtful, mischievous -- but h...

This is, of course, supposed to be all about movies, but if you'll indulge me for a second I just have to say goodbye to one of my favorite New York night clubs, which I thought would never die. When my brother and I were planning our musical nights out, I picked the "End of the Weak" hip-hop showca...