Movies

Culture

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

The '50s as filtered through SCTV

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2014 8:05 AM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews The Judge

Peter Suderman | 10.11.2014 10:15 AM

Culture

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

Culture

Gone Girl

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

Kurt Loder | 10.3.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

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

Weird, wonderful proto-movies

Jesse Walker | 10.3.2014 8:10 AM

Culture

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

Peter Suderman | 10.2.2014 1:14 PM

Culture

Avant-GIFs

Turning online animations into high art

Jesse Walker | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Culture

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

Politics

Video's Gutenberg Moment

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

Jim Epstein | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews The Equalizer

Reason Staff | 9.27.2014 8:30 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: FDR, Cartoon Character

Franklin Roosevelt meets Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Jesse Walker | 9.26.2014 10:10 AM

Culture

The Equalizer and Jimi: All Is by My Side

Denzel Washington kickstarts a franchise, Andre Benjamin illuminates a Hendrix biopic.

Kurt Loder | 9.26.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Ivan Reitman Cops to Libertarian Subtext of Ghostbusters

Brian Doherty | 9.23.2014 7:31 PM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews Kevin Smith's Insane New Horror Movie Tusk

Peter Suderman | 9.19.2014 9:59 AM

Policy

Friday A/V Club: That Time Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan Made a Movie Together

Killing the Spadina Expressway

Jesse Walker | 9.19.2014 9:13 AM

Culture

The Maze Runner and A Walk Among the Tombstones

More teen dystopia, and some middling Liam Neeson crime action.

Kurt Loder | 9.19.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

The Plight of the Scots

'We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers.'

Jesse Walker | 9.18.2014 8:05 AM

Civil Liberties

Black Actress Daniele Watts Handcuffed, Detained in Studio City for Kissing her Husband in Public [UPDATE: With Links to Audio!]

Brian Doherty | 9.13.2014 10:02 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: A Soviet Filmmaker Adapts a Post-Apocalyptic Ray Bradbury Story

Forget The Day After. This is the great nuclear-war movie of the early '80s.

Jesse Walker | 9.12.2014 9:17 AM

Culture

The Skeleton Twins and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Them)

Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig get serious, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy sail the sea of heartbreak.

Kurt Loder | 9.12.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt? Movie Premieres Friday; See Clips in New Documentary

Brian Doherty | 9.10.2014 3:32 PM

Movies

Friday A/V Club: Eugenicsploitation

When reformers accept the premises of the system.

Jesse Walker | 9.5.2014 12:03 PM

Culture

Wetlands and The Longest Week

A wild German import, and a limp Woody Allen tribute Jason Bateman can't quite save.

Kurt Loder | 9.5.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Politics

That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star

When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.

Jesse Walker | 9.2.2014 11:35 AM

History

The Year Armond White's Historical Perspective Broke

A film critic offers a strange take on recent American history.

Jesse Walker | 8.29.2014 3:25 PM

California

Calif. Plastic Bag Ban Survives After All (As Do Other Bad Bills)

Scott Shackford | 8.29.2014 10:15 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: The Nazi Summer Camps of New York

Those aren't Boy Scouts.

Jesse Walker | 8.29.2014 9:20 AM

Culture

The November Man and Life of Crime

Pierce Brosnan gets back in the spy game, Jennifer Aniston takes on Elmore Leonard.

Kurt Loder | 8.29.2014 9:00 AM

Communism

My Dad and I Are Kickstarting a Graphic Novel We Made About Loving America and Dodging the Draft in 1950s Communist Poland

Ed Krayewski | 8.26.2014 6:20 PM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Peter Suderman | 8.22.2014 4:05 PM

Culture

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Another all-star helping of blood and bullets from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.

Kurt Loder | 8.22.2014 9:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Friday A/V Club: Avant-Garde ACLU Ads of the 1970s

Directed by Godfrey Reggio

Jesse Walker | 8.22.2014 8:30 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Buster Keaton vs. the Los Angeles Police Department

The classic comedy Cops.

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2014 10:21 AM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews The Expendables 3

Peter Suderman | 8.15.2014 9:51 AM

Culture

Frank: Radiant Music and Madness. The Giver: Unnecessary Helping of Teen Dys-dopia.

Michael Fassbender gets a big head, and Jeff Bridges mutters through yet another post-apocalyptic franchise attempt.

Kurt Loder | 8.15.2014 9:00 AM

Civil Liberties

"Hollywood really lacks the courage to take a message like Ayn Rand's": Atlas Shrugged's Harmon Kaslow

Amanda Winkler and Nick Gillespie | 8.14.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

The Weird Wide Web: ISIS Supporters Tweet About Robin Williams' Death

Zenon Evans | 8.13.2014 11:00 AM

Celebrities

Lauren Bacall Dead at 89

Suffered a stroke

Reason Staff | 8.12.2014 8:10 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Lawyer for Shaneen Allen, the Writer of That NYT Mag Piece, the Mom Who Claims Cannabis Saved Her Kid, Plus Iraq War, St. Louis Riots, Tony Stewart, Robin Williams, and After-Show

Matt Welch | 8.11.2014 8:17 PM

Culture

Peter Suderman Reviews the New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Peter Suderman | 8.8.2014 10:32 AM

Politics

Friday A/V Club: Woody Allen's Lost Nixon Movie

A mockumentary that PBS wouldn't air

Jesse Walker | 8.8.2014 9:32 AM

Culture

What If: A Rom-Com Gem. Land Ho!: A Charming Indie Road Trip.

Zoe Kazan and Daniel Radcliffe in love and confusion, and two unconquerable codgers on an Icelandic adventure.

Kurt Loder | 8.8.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Inside the Sharknado: Mockbusters, Remix Culture, and the Earnestness of Camp

Zach Weissmueller | 8.2.2014 7:00 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Watch This Old Movie About Stranger Danger and Marvel at How Unsupervised Kids Used to Be

This film's fears can't conceal just how level-headed people were about allowing children a little autonomy.

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2014 12:12 PM