David Fincher

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Rooney Mara Takes Control of the Juggernaut

Lollapalooza: "It Was 20 Years Ago Today..."

​It's kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn't in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing love for The ... More >>

Fists of Fury

​It's kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn't in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing love for The ... More >>

Big Earl's BBQ's Leg of Beast Feast: 30 Pounds of Food, 6 People, 17 Minutes

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Indie-Darling Nominees Are No Match for the Most Old-Fashioned Films Among Them

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: A Final Installment With Stieg Larsson's Lady In Black

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Stone: Edward Norton, Master of the Dual Role, Talks About His New Movie

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

The Social Network: David Fincher Comments on Mark Zuckerberg's Status

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Brad Pitt Ages in Reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Wanted delivers the empowered Everyman sentiment of Fight Club, minus the guilt

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

New on DVD: Parenthood never looked scarier in the underrated Joshua

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Final Cut

The very, very best of 2007

Chow Time Again

The very, very best of 2007

Oh, the Humanity of a Heist

Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

Killer Instinct

Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

Hand It to Him

Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

The Year of Living Sequentially

Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Murder By Death

Like Se7en, but more jokes

Abort

Running the franchise into the ground

Boy Oh Boy

You have no idea what you're in for . . . but you'll learn

Shock Treatment

Going completely mental

A Cut Above

Saw is cinematic carnage of the highest order

Screenplay Zero

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley struggle through floundering frights

Breast in Show

Angelina Jolie stars in Taking Lives, but the filmmakers are the real boobs

Sidestep of the Machines

The Terminator's back. Again.

A Toothy Grin

Horror fans have good reason to smile at Darkness Falls

Tapeheads

Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Ass-Backwards

Reverse chronology leads nowhere fast in gimmicky Memento

Still Fab After All These Years

A spiffed-up Hard Day's Night continues to dazzle, with its jump cuts, slow motion and sped-up Beatles antics

The Spoof That Dreams Are Made Of

The first rule of Film Club is you don't talk about Film Club

The Late, Late Show

Shadow Hours descends into film noir hell zone

Tool of the Trade

A Perfect Circle tries to prove that its popularity is because of much more than just Maynard Keenan's pretty face

Pull the Strings!

The power of puppetry propels Being John Malkovich

The Beat Generation

Fight Club pummels promising premise in ground

Exorcise in Futility

As demonic-possession thrillers go, Stigmata's no head-turner

Monster Mash

Alien Resurrection breathes new life into the franchise

Waiting for McGuffin

Hitchcockian The Game fails to master suspense