Michael Moore Announces He’s Still Relevant

“I know Roseanne. And I know Trump. And they are about to rue the day they knew me…” Via Twitter, Michael Moore Announces He’s Still Relevant

Japan PM Snubs Kore-eda

Japan PM Snubs Kore-eda

Peter Howell In Praise of Caddyshack, the “Glorious Disaster that Endured”

Peter Howell In Praise of Caddyshack, the “Glorious Disaster that Endured”

Slender Man Producers Gamble Sony Pictures Exit

Slender Man Producers Gamble Sony Pictures Exit

Rachel Kushner On Sharing Sidney J. Furie’s The Leather Boys With Her Parents

Rachel Kushner On Sharing Sidney J. Furie’s The Leather Boys With Her Parents

Solo Costume Designers Glynn Dillon and Dave Crossman On Dressing Lando And Han

“Our main influence was more Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown. The main concentration was getting Donald looking good in the black cape and the yellow shirt, because the story demanded that was gonna be his main costume throughout.  The whole Lando’s closet thing grew. In the end we made around 30 capes for that…

Ed Solomon On Building Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (And A Career) From A Succession Of Failures

Ed Solomon On Building Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (And A Career) From A Succession Of Failures

When Donald Pardoned Dinesh

“Nobody asked me to do it. I read the papers – I see him on television.” When Donald Pardoned Dinesh

The Ankler Is Skeptical On I. P. Drive

“The whole point of Bob Iger’s great leap forward was supposed to be that once you had these mega-brands they would sell themselves. Apparently not! Marvel’s incredible winning streak remains the exception. The Rule, which has not been repealed, remains defined by DC, Universal Monsters, etc.: A run continues as long as you keep making great…

The DVD Wrapup: Annihilation, Kaurismäki, Borzage, Sweet Sweetback, Two of Us, Cold Turkey, Weinstein, Jackass and more

Alex Garland is a terrific writer-director who challenges the imagination and rewards viewers, for whom patience a virtue. Garland received sole screenwriter credit on 28 Days Later … (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012), while sharing the writing credit with Tameem Antoniades on the video games and “DmC: Devil May Cry” and “Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.” He also wrote the novels from which The Beach (2000) and The Tesseract (2003), were adapted. None of them enjoyed an easy stroll to the big screen. Those difficulties were a walk in the park compared to the difficulties the London-born author and filmmaker faced getting Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation into theaters. Together, they represent two of the finest examples of Earth-bound science fiction — or, if you prefer, speculative fiction or cutting-edge fiction – to be produced sequentially, in memory.

For RWF’s 73rd Birthday, Filmmaker Reprints 1997 Remembrances By Everett Lewis, Harmony Korine, Tom Kalin, Lynne Stopkewich, Ira Sachs, Jon Moritsugu, Todd Verow

For RWF’s 73rd Birthday, Filmmaker Reprints 1997 Remembrances By Everett Lewis, Harmony Korine, Tom Kalin, Lynne Stopkewich, Ira Sachs, Jon Moritsugu, Todd Verow

Jason Bateman Says It’s Time He Gets To Play A Woman

Jason Bateman Says It’s Time He Gets To Play A Woman

“Tambor, on the other hand, has just been repeating the same canned apology he’s been spouting: he’s a guy who gets so deep in his process that he doesn’t realize he’s behaving badly, please excuse him for his commitment to the art, and so forth. It’s – what’s the word? – horseshit. There are plenty of great actors who don’t need to yell at people to make a scene work. Tambor’s good at what he does, but he’d probably be even better if his collaborators weren’t walking around him on eggshells.”

“Tambor, on the other hand, has just been repeating the same canned apology he’s been spouting: he’s a guy who gets so deep in his process that he doesn’t realize he’s behaving badly, please excuse him for his commitment to the art, and so forth. It’s – what’s the word? – horseshit. There are plenty…

Drew Magary Has Words For The Sainted New York Times Op-Ed Cadres

“This is not a time to calm down. David Brooks has no right to tell people who are mad as hell to stop being mad as hell. He can afford to be calm and collected because he is so wealthy and sequestered that nothing truly awful can happen to him. His civility is a luxury….

The Star Child Lives

The Star Child Lives

Dumb on purpose

I don’t like that word and I’m not thrilled my friend and hero used it, but to suggest it’s equivalent to a historic and ugly racist stereotype is dumb on purpose. — John Hodgman (@hodgman) May 31, 2018

Outrage cycles

There's basically no one left involved in these Fake Outrage games that doesn't know they're fake. Literally everyone involved, on every side, in the media, reading Twitter, everyone knows. It's just become this weird ritual that we all enact over & over. — David Roberts (@drvox) May 31, 2018

Gideon Resnick

it owns to be completely emotionally dead and worn down by outrage cycles and the cycles of outrage about the outrage cycles and the performative outrage about the outrage around the outrage cycles — Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) May 31, 2018

I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it. — Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) May 31, 2018

Sally Field In Defense of That Word

Sally Field In Defense of That Word