In Defense of ‘Only God Forgives,’ the Summer’s Weirdest Movie
“Gruesomely grotesque and pathologically pretentious, a diabolical horror called Only God Forgives may not be the worst movie ever made, but it is unquestionably in the top five.” Unquestionably!...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Movies You Need to Stream This Week
Welcome to Flavorwire’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other services to find the best of the recently available,...
View Article20 of the Scariest Movie Masks
The weather is getting cooler, and we can almost smell fall in the air, which means one thing: we’re that much closer to Halloween. Kicking off the scary movie season is You’re Next, from contributing...
View Article20 Pictures of the Most Important Beards in the Last Decade
Summer is slowly winding down, which means we will all be faced with a good deal of sartorial choices as we make the move from hot to cold. One of the most important facing many of us is whether or not...
View ArticleHilarious Photos of Internet-Inspired Costumes at Last Night’s HallowMEME
The Internet went offline at the fifth annual HallowMEME party at Brooklyn’s Bell House last night, thrown by Forced Meme Productions, Kelly Reeves, Andrea Rosen, and Lindsey Weber (who, it should be...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Movies You Need to Stream This Weekend
Welcome to Flavorwire’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other services to find the best of the recently available,...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Holiday Gift Guide: 50 Gifts for 50 Cultural Icons
Everyone knows that the holidays are a time for tradition, so here’s one of Flavorwire‘s long-time favorites: doling out gifts to some of contemporary culture’s biggest and boldest icons. Whether...
View ArticleThe Greatest Movie Trailers of 2013
Vanity Fair recently published an essay asking if 2013 is the greatest year for movies since the Gone with the Wind era. That benchmark is certainly debatable, but if we had to judge this year’s cinema...
View ArticleStrange Technological Romances on Film
“It’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness,” reads the ad for the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system in Spike Jonze’s Her. A romance between Joaquin Phoenix’s...
View Article13 Great Anti-Valentine’s Day Movies You Can Stream Right Now
If you’re dating or married, Valentine’s Day can be a high-stress holiday: figuring out what to get your partner, how much is trying too hard, how much isn’t trying enough, where to go, what to do,...
View ArticleHas the Ryan Gosling Era Come to an End?
Here’s the thing about premiering your directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival: whatever happens there, it’s going to happen loudly. Such was the case Tuesday, when leading man and Tumblr fave...
View Article10 Great New-to-Netflix Movies to Stream This Holiday Weekend
Another holiday weekend is upon us, with the Fourth of July luckily placed on a Friday for your three-day convenience. So you know what that means: lots of time on the couch, doing fuck all. But you...
View ArticleRachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling Had “Screaming, Yelling” Fights While Filming...
We’ve learned something today: even if you despise Ryan Gosling, you could end up in a relationship with him. For it turns out that despite their lachrymose lovin’ onscreen and their four-year...
View ArticleStylized Violence on Film Isn’t Just Lazy — It’s Immoral
I walked out of the first movie in The Hunger Games series, directed by Pleasantville‘s Gary Ross, feeling surprisingly frustrated. In fact, I may have ranted to my friends that the film was “morally...
View ArticleListen to Chvrches’ Single From the “New”‘Drive’ Soundtrack
The original Drive soundtrack was nothing to complain about — in fact, it was one of the most hyped soundtracks of the decade — but BBC Radio host Zane Lowe has compiled a sequel, of sorts, to the...
View ArticleWhy Chris Rock’s “Burn Hollywood Burn” Tour is Right On Time
Chris Rock has run out of fucks to give. His new movie, Top Five, debuted with a bang at the Toronto Film Festival, igniting a fierce bidding war for distribution — won by Paramount Pictures, which...
View ArticleWatch the Weird Trailer for Ryan Gosling’s Directorial Debut
Last spring, Ryan Gosling unveiled his directorial debut Lost River at the Cannes Film Festival, and the response was overwhelming….ly negative. Critics were brutal in their assessments, and those of...
View Article25 Culturally Relevant Valentine’s Day Gifts
Chocolate! Flowers! Little beady-eyed bears holding plush hearts! No, put down your sugarcoated wallets: these are no gifts for the culture connoisseur you so ardently adore. Instead, why not earn your...
View ArticleHBO’s True Crime Series ‘The Jinx’ May Solve a Murder Case
The gruesome, execution-style murder of writer Susan Berman in December 2000 has remained unsolved. But this week, as the New York Times reports, the case has been reopened — and the fascinating thing...
View Article10 SXSW 2015 Movies We Can’t Wait to See
Hold my calls, I’ll be in Austin. Yes, tomorrow marks the start of the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, one of the most purely enjoyable weeks of the movie year (and, no small side plus, a welcome blast of...
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