RUNNING TIME 111 minutes MPAA Not Rated ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.37:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 1.0 LPCM SUBTITLES English REGION A DISC TYPE BD-50 STUDIO Criterion Ace in the Hole is ostensibly about the media circus (it was rechristened The Big Carnival after tanking in the public/critical…

On Sunday at noon, I was dressed up, with a flower in my hair, standing in front of a Rousseau painting at the Museum of Modern Art, looking for a well-dressed stranger. I'd been set up on a blind date. I was to meet the stranger, Mr. X, in front of The Dream. A winky, fitting beginning for a…

John Metcalfe Jul 14, 2014 One way to get back at the neighbors? Block their light and views. Nathan Jongewaard About a century ago, a Bay Area man named Charles Froling was just learning that he wouldn't be able to build his dream house. An inheritance had gifted him a sizable chunk of land, but…

Television is keeping Questlove busy. The Roots drummer and member of The Tonight Show house band is also the executive producer of SoundClash , a new music show premiering Wednesday night on VH1 and Palladia. Inspired by Jamaican sound clashing and the classic music programming of his youth,…

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Imagine if you were in some sort of hot makeout session with some lithe babe of your dreams, in my case some skinny nerdy bloke with stubble, low voice, and a weird penchant to hate you immediately after sex, and you were just going to proceed to take all your clothes off and make ‘aaah’ noises when…

Illustrations by Stephen Maurice Graham It's 1997 and I'm searching for the fabled "Lara Croft naked patch" on the internet. It is sometime around the era of when it took about 60 years and the screech of a modem that made your ears bleed to download anything. After about 30 years of downloading,…

Video games have been my home since I was young, and today I'd argue that they're even more than that — they're part of my livelihood. But the experiences they've given me have always been narrow, filtered through the eyes of one beefy white guy after another. Yes, it's hard enough to get developers…

Shortly after Rebellion Entertainment completed Sniper Elite 3 , Jason Kingsley, the studio’s CEO and creative director, brought the game home to let his partner have a look at it. They have both visited firing ranges, and she’s a good shot in real life, he says, so he figured she might enjoy it.…

Two times a year—once around the halfway point, again near the end of the year— Dissolve editor Scott Tobias circulates a checklist of films for staffers to see for best-of-the-year consideration. Usually, it’s just a raw list of titles, presented in order of release, but for you, The Dissolve…

DJ Premier is in great spirits, and for good reason. He’s a fairly new dad, and his success has afforded him the time to be both the DJ Premier that we all know, and the dad his son needs. He’s also taking a leap on the business front. In an independent venture, Premo has put his own shingle into…

Every good movie sheds its share of bad ideas. One of James Cameron’s for Terminator 2: Judgment Day was reportedly to have Arnold Schwarzenegger—the world’s top box-office draw when T2 went into production—play both the “good” Terminator, sent from the future to safeguard tween John Connor, future…

S tarting a restaurant is a risky and expensive endeavour. In Toronto especially where there is a plethora of great places to eat and a handful of new places opening (and closing) every week, it’s exceedingly difficult for new restaurants to set themselves apart from the crowd and even if a new…

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- Advertisement - In an episode of The Big Bang Theory (a sitcom lampooning modern “geek” culture with varying degrees of success), physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper refuses to watch the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series before the Clone Wars movie. He explains, “I prefer to let George Lucas…

It’s just the kind of movie clip YouTube was made for. In the 1965 Frankie Avalon vehicle, “Ski Party,” James Brown and his backing vocal group, the Famous Flames, enter a ski lodge after rescuing a frozen reveler. Resplendent in a white-and-red sweater, tight black slacks, black pointy-toed shoes…

Exploitation film Noel: Terminator 2: Judgment Day cost an estimated $100 million to make—in 1991, no less—but what I’ve always liked about the movie is that for all its shiny special effects, it still looks like a sequel to the first Terminator , which was a $6 million B-movie. James Cameron worked…

Back in 1984, James Cameron co-wrote and directed a scrappy, relatively cheap $6 million action film called The Terminator , which revolved around an unusually high-concept science-fiction hook: a nigh-unstoppable, futuristic cyborg killing machine, sent back in time to the present day to kill…

A few months after the turn of the millennium, unrecognizable new Radiohead recordings were uploaded to Napster, the first songs from the band’s then-unreleased fourth album crackling across the crude peer-to-peer service like scattered transmissions from a distant alien planet. Around that same…

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How to survive air travel This is how you survive the airport: Arrive early. Arrive early? Sounds simple. It is — let me show you. Arrive so early that a friend will text you, What R U sixty years old? No, you’re not sixty, you’re much older, because the wisdom of the early arrival seems to have…

From Everett Collection. Kubrick’s obsession with secrecy so infected his cast and crew that no one has ever spoken about it in detail. The day-to-day life on set can only be inferred from facts and hints. The most major fact: Eyes Wide Shut was exhausting. Kubrick had asked Cruise and Kidman to…

Maciek Jasik It's bright but cold and the yellow cabs and skyscrapers are on some Big Apple snow-globe shit—the whole thing looks like a Hollywood back lot. Fifty-third and Fifth Avenue is an aggressively New York corner and one I usually avoid for reasons of: It's gross. At 11 am on a Friday the…

Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content "Women are the niggers of gender," the email said. "If you killed yourself, I wouldn’t even fuck the corpse." I blinked at my phone, fighting simultaneous urges to hurl my phone across the room in anger and cry. Later…

Photo: David James/Twentieth Century Fox Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a rousing, well-directed, soulful blockbuster with a lot on its mind, which makes it quite unlike most of the big and brain-dead movies we’ve gotten this summer. Still, there is one depressing characteristic that it…

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In 2005, the House of Representatives passed an act that forbade consumers to sue fast-food operators over weight gain. “The Cheeseburger Bill” (formally, “The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act”) attempted to legislate the message that the costs of fast food are personal, not social,…

As far as films, I think the Coen brothers write the best scripts — “A Serious Man” in particular I thought was marvelous. Another writer-director I like is Chris Morris, who made an excellent film called “Four Lions.” And the best comic writers ever? P. G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut,…

The Terminator type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa R runtime 108 minutes performer Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lance Henriksen director James Cameron distributor Orion Pictures author James Cameron genre Mystery and Thriller, Action Adventure, Sci-fi and Fantasy Thirty…

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In case you haven't heard, Thor is now a girl. In an announcement on The View this morning, it was revealed that a woman will soon be wielding the Mjölnir in the Marvel comics. Naturally, people went nuts over the news. It was, to borrow a phrase from Vice President Joe Biden, a big f*cking deal.…

Silicon Valley is already a land unto itself, a parallel universe where twentysomethings become overnight billionaires, where cars learn to drive themselves, where code is the common tongue and nerds rule. Unemployment rates are low. Housing prices are sky-high. Not coincidentally, this mostly…

Dungeons & Dragons turns forty this year. The game, which I played in my youth, is entering middle age just a few years behind me. My interest in—or, I should say, my obsession with—D. & D. coincided with the height of its popularity, in the nineteen-eighties. D. & D. was more than just a fad or a…

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues. He started in the summer of 2010, working at night and on weekends, and by the…

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It took New York a decade to turn me. Friends in the city said it would make me a bit tougher, a bit gruffer and a bit harder, but I didn't believe them. But it has, and I should leave. I'm a Midwest boy. We had a good run, but this is probably for the better. There's a saying that you should leave…

The last few weeks have seen the release of Snowpiercer and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes , two science-fiction action pictures that depict a future where the human population has been reduced to a minute fraction of what it is now. Both films traffic in analogy and metaphor, using their premises…