Now we officially want to punch the economy in the vagina (sorry, the vulva). Beloved Chicago label Touch and Go Records is shutting down distribution. [Pitchfork] Even Madonna is co-opting vampire culture. Apparently she wants a role in New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. [AfterEllen] Taylor S...

It looks like Roman Polanski had better get used to hairy armpits, dogpoo and comical nonchalance, because he’ll be staying in France for a while. Why? Because Roman Polanski has lost his bid to get his 1978 child sex charges dropped, so the fugitive status currently keeping him from returning...

= 5 stars Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston Directed by Roman Polanski Chinatown is of the film noir genre and although it was made in the seventies, its story is set in the period when many film noirs were made. The setting is Los Angeles, where water is money because of its desert...

Questionable artist Francesco Vezzoli commissioned famed rapist director Roman Polanski to make this 60-second ad for the perfume Greed, which is not a real perfume. Why? Because it's a statement, man. Art. It's like when I ordered all those pizzas for a party that no one was ever going to attend. T...

  Mickey Rourke doesn't care if he wins an Oscar or not... he just wants more of this incredible display of wintry boobs... Mickey is in France, probably trying to work out a deal with Louis Safer (i.e. director Roman Polanski, who has a rumored film in the works), and the groupies are foll...

The problem is, once you’ve said you’ve had sex with a child, people just don’t think of you as trustworthy. Just look at Roman Polanski. It’s been three decades since he admitted having sex with a 13-year-old girl and fled America, and now America is still keeping him at arm...

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

I saw this movie with a gorgeous shiksa in a dark and empty theater and one thing led to another and we were groping each other in the dark like there was no tomorrow. Pictures of the Holocaust do that to me. I didn’t waste my time while I was groping her however. I kept my eyes on the screen ...

Roman Polanski - forget the politics or the ethical questions about his character. The man can make a damned good film. Rosemary’s Baby, The Pianist, and - holy hell - Chinatown. To name a few. Sadly, the only thing that a lot of younger film fans know about the man is his rightfully despicabl...

It is the pitter-patter of her voice you hear first, falling lightly over the gloom of the hotel room as she rummages in her bag for her cigarettes and lighter. "Yes, it's not anymore what it was to be travelling," she is saying as she rasps the lighter, inhales, "even with trains." And when she eme...