Movies

Friday A/V Club: An Exclusive Look at Sony's Revised Cut of The Interview

Or something like that

Jesse Walker | 12.19.2014 9:14 AM

Movie Theaters Forced to Cancel Showings of Team America: World Police

Peter Suderman | 12.18.2014 3:08 PM

Four Thoughts on North Korea, Hollywood, Free Speech, and Terrorist Threats

Notes from the post-Interview era

Jesse Walker | 12.18.2014 9:43 AM

Texas Theater Will Show Team America in The Interview's Place

The Alamo Drafthouse takes a stand.

Jesse Walker | 12.17.2014 7:56 PM

Will Moviegoers Ever Get to See The Interview? Source Tells Hollywood Reporter That Five Major Theater Chains Won't Show the Movie

Peter Suderman | 12.17.2014 3:04 PM

Hackers Threaten Attacks If Sony Releases The Interview, Major Theater Chain Declines to Show the Film

Peter Suderman | 12.17.2014 1:02 PM

Peter Suderman Reviews The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Peter Suderman | 12.17.2014 10:45 AM

On The Independents: John Bolton on Torture Popularity and Sony Terrorism, Timothy Sandefur on Sony's Free-Speech Claims, Deroy Murdock on Jeb & Hillary, Plus Heroes of Freedom, E-Cigs, De Blasio Hypocrisy and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 12.16.2014 8:12 PM

The Sony Hack and the First Amendment

If Sony sued to keep the press from publishing info acquired by hackers, it would probably lose.

Jesse Walker | 12.16.2014 10:32 AM

The Most Popular Motion Pictures of 2014: An Alternative List

Better than the box office.

Jesse Walker | 12.15.2014 12:16 PM

Innocence of Muslims

Innocence of Muslims Copyright Claim Back in Court

Scott Shackford | 12.15.2014 11:20 AM

On The Independents: Justin Amash on the Secret Surveillance Bill, Bernie Sanders on Economics, Andy Levy & Jimmy Failla on Torture, Guns, License Plates, Rick Perry, and Sony; and Me on Rolling Stone

Matt Welch | 12.12.2014 8:38 PM

The Sony Hack Will Define Hypocrisy Downwards

Nick Gillespie | 12.12.2014 6:57 PM

Peter Suderman Reviews Exodus: Gods and Kings

Peter Suderman | 12.12.2014 2:30 PM

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Nanny State

'Sit on Santa's Face,' and Other Scenes from the U.K. #PornProtest

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.12.2014 9:50 AM

Wild

Reese Witherspoon on a long walk into a new life.

Kurt Loder | 12.5.2014 9:00 AM

Rosewater

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.1.2014 7:00 AM

Music

Free Speech and Free Jazz

A documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.

Kurt Loder | 11.29.2014 12:00 PM

The First Trailer for the New Star Wars Trilogy Is Here and It's Great

Peter Suderman | 11.28.2014 11:25 AM

Policy

Peter Suderman Reviews The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Peter Suderman | 11.21.2014 4:45 PM

Freeform Radio: The Movie

Doing radio without commercials, underwriting, or government subsidies.

Jesse Walker | 11.18.2014 10:02 AM

Stillborn Utopia

Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.

Jesse Walker | 11.16.2014 10:00 AM

Video Game Violence: A Scientific 'Consensus' Cracks

Reel violence does not lead to real violence.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2014 1:30 PM

Video Games

Ronald Bailey Parses New Research That Shows That Killing Pixels Doesn't Lead to Killing People

Reason Staff | 11.14.2014 1:30 PM

Foxcatcher

Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo in a very chilly art film.

Kurt Loder | 11.14.2014 9:00 AM

Peter Suderman Reviews Interstellar

Peter Suderman | 11.7.2014 1:01 PM

Tonight on The Independents: Election Desperation, Grover Norquist Woos Libertarians, John Fund Warns About Voter Fraud, Everybody's Racist and Sexist, Rock the Non-Vote, and Assisted Suicide

Matt Welch | 11.3.2014 8:00 PM

Peter Suderman Reviews Nightcrawler

Peter Suderman | 10.31.2014 3:44 PM

Friday A/V Club: A Haunted-House Triple Feature for Halloween

Au Secours!, There It Is, and The Live Ghost.

Jesse Walker | 10.31.2014 10:17 AM

Nightcrawler and Horns

Jake Gyllenhaal brings the creepy, Daniel Radcliffe gets lost in a failed fright flick.

Kurt Loder | 10.31.2014 9:00 AM

Stalkers of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Sneaking into a radioactive wasteland

Jesse Walker | 10.29.2014 11:10 AM

Intellectual Property

Goodfellas Actor Suing Simpsons Because Mafia Character Looks Like Him

Ed Krayewski | 10.24.2014 10:11 AM

Citizenfour

Bombshell documentary brings Edward Snowden into sharper focus.

Kurt Loder | 10.24.2014 9:00 AM

The Unexpected Release of the Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Shows How Fans Have Won

Peter Suderman | 10.23.2014 8:02 AM

Peter Suderman Reviews Fury

Peter Suderman | 10.17.2014 3:47 PM

Birdman and Fury

Michael Keaton at his high-flying best, Brad Pitt bogged down in the mud of war.

Kurt Loder | 10.17.2014 9:00 AM

Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Commie Werewolves

The '50s as filtered through SCTV

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2014 8:05 AM

Peter Suderman Reviews The Judge

Peter Suderman | 10.11.2014 10:15 AM

Whiplash and The Judge

J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller jazz it up, Downey and Duvall go to court.

Kurt Loder | 10.10.2014 9:00 AM

Gone Girl

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike plumb the noir depths of a dark bestseller.

Kurt Loder | 10.3.2014 9:00 AM

Friday A/V Club: GIFs of the 19th Century

Weird, wonderful proto-movies

Jesse Walker | 10.3.2014 8:10 AM

Netflix Aims to Reinvent the Movie Business With Some Help From Adam Sandler

Peter Suderman | 10.2.2014 1:14 PM

Avant-GIFs

Turning online animations into high art

Jesse Walker | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

The Surprising Power of Subtitles

From Jesus on a bed sheet in Tagalog to Rasputin rapping in Ukrainian

Greg Beato | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Video's Gutenberg Moment

How the VX1000 camera revolutionized news, documentaries, and porn.

Jim Epstein | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM