Movies

Culture

Unfinished Hunger Games Sequel Will Need Change After Philip Seymour Hoffman Death

Unnamed exec said one emotional speech was left to film

Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 7:55 AM

Policy

Authorities Find 50 Bags of What is Thought To Be Heroin in Philip Seymour Hoffman's Apartment

The actor was found dead in his Manhattan apartment yesterday

Reason Staff | 2.3.2014 11:20 AM

Culture

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in Apartment

He was 46. Drug overdose suspected.

Reason Staff | 2.2.2014 3:18 PM

Culture

Jesse Eisenberg Cast as Lex Luthor in Batman/Superman Film

Next gen Batman movie

Reason Staff | 1.31.2014 3:15 PM

Culture

Labor Day and Tim's Vermeer

Kate Winslet in a slushy romance, Penn and Teller on the trail of an artistic mystery.

Kurt Loder | 1.31.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Download Data

Which movies get pirated?

Peter Suderman | 1.31.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

"Alone Yet Not Alone" Oscar Nomination for Best Song Rescinded

Composer accused of improper lobbying

Reason Staff | 1.30.2014 10:15 AM

Movies

The Essential 1970s Conspiracy Thrillers

From Executive Action to Cutter's Way

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2014 11:14 AM

Culture

Tarantino Sues Gawker for Disseminating Movie Script

Canceled a Western movie after plot leaked out

Reason Staff | 1.27.2014 5:20 PM

Politics

Guns Against Government

A maker of the gun ad the NFL didn't want in the Super Bowl wants Americans to understand they might need guns to fight tyranny.

Brian Doherty | 1.23.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Brilliant "Let the Fire Burn" Explores 1985 MOVE Bombing by Cops in Philadelphia

Q&A w/ Jason Osder

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 1.23.2014 4:10 PM

Culture

'We Have to Break in Our New Celebrities Slowly'

To Sierra Leone with Elizabeth McGovern

Jesse Walker | 1.23.2014 12:02 PM

Culture

Google Glass User Interrogated by DHS on Suspicion of Movie Pirating

Brian Doherty | 1.22.2014 10:47 AM

Culture

Quentin Tarantino Putting Script for Western on Hold After It Leaks

Says he only shared it with six people

Reason Staff | 1.22.2014 9:10 AM

Culture

Watch the Great Lost Movie 'Nothing Lasts Forever'

A film preserved by piracy

Jesse Walker | 1.18.2014 1:56 PM

Culture

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Big Bad Wolves

Chris Pine in a franchise reboot, and a startling creepfest from Israel.

Kurt Loder | 1.17.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Oscar Nominees Announced

12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Philomena among those nominated for best picture

Reason Staff | 1.16.2014 8:57 AM

War on Drugs

See America's Longest War in Austin

Reason Staff | 1.13.2014 1:51 PM

Culture

12 Years a Slave, American Hustle Win Top Golden Globe Awards

Best drama, best musical or comedy

Reason Staff | 1.13.2014 7:30 AM

Culture

Former CIA Acting General Counsel: Hollywood, Washington Have Close Relationship, Actor Once Offered to Help CIA in Exchange For $50K's Worth of Cocaine

But who was it?

Reason Staff | 1.10.2014 9:40 AM

Culture

The Legend of Hercules

Kellan Lutz in a mythological misfire.

Kurt Loder | 1.10.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Disney Appoints Committee to Determine Star Wars Canon

Start prepping the complaints now

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 2:40 PM

Culture

Merryl Streep Calls Walt Disney "Gender Bigot," Anti-Semite at Awards Ceremony

Disney made a movie about Disney making a movie

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 9:10 AM

Culture

Run Run Shaw, Pioneer of Kung Fu Genre, Dead at 106

Maybe 107

Ed Krayewski | 1.7.2014 7:59 AM

Culture

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Still creepy after all these years

Kurt Loder | 1.3.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

What Do Ayn Rand, Dr. Seuss, and Buddy Holly Have in Common?

Locked out of the public domain.

Jesse Walker | 1.2.2014 4:24 PM

Culture

Reliving Genocide

Nick Sibilla | 12.31.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

William Burroughs' Claymation Christmas

Something seasonal.

Jesse Walker | 12.25.2013 12:08 PM

Culture

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese's electrifying tale of sex and drugs and very dirty money.

Kurt Loder | 12.24.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

Her

Joaquin Phoenix and the woman who wasn't there.

Kurt Loder | 12.20.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Will Ferrell returns in a good-not-great sequel.

Kurt Loder | 12.18.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

Actor Peter O'Toole Dead at 81

"Lawrence of Arabia" among the many movies he appeared in

Reason Staff | 12.16.2013 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Against The Hobbit 2: I Prefer My Orcs Be Named Mork and That My Smaug Come From LA

Nick Gillespie | 12.13.2013 11:01 AM

Culture

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, American Hustle, and Saving Mr. Banks

Dragons and dirtbags and Disney revisited.

Kurt Loder | 12.13.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

Golden Globe Nominees Announced

"American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" are tied for the most number of nominations

Reason Staff | 12.12.2013 10:40 AM

Economics

Celebrities Are Economic Hypocrites When They Attack Free Markets

It's easy to be a socialist when you have $100 million.

John Stossel | 12.11.2013 12:00 PM

Politics

Ben Affleck: Maybe Actors Shouldn't Announce Partisan Affiliation, Says He Feels Like a Prop For Democrat Fundraisers Sometimes

Claims he's not a blindly partisan Democrat

Reason Staff | 12.11.2013 10:20 AM

Economics

Price Control Cartoons

Vintage propaganda

Jesse Walker | 12.9.2013 10:48 AM

Culture

Inside Llewyn Davis and Out of the Furnace

The Coen brothers unplugged, Woody Harrelson unchained.

Kurt Loder | 12.6.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

Chaos Follows Effort to Honor Actor Paul Walker in Puerto Rico

More than 100 speeding tickets handed out and traffic jams due to caravans

Reason Staff | 12.4.2013 2:10 PM

Culture

New York Film Critics Circle Awards American Hustle Best Picture, Steve McQueen Best Director

Robert Redford named best actor in first film awards of the season

Reason Staff | 12.4.2013 9:20 AM

Culture

Movie Starring Actor Killed in Car Crash to Open as Planned

Paul Walker, 40, died Saturday

Reason Staff | 12.2.2013 5:10 PM

Civil Liberties

How Easy Money Makes Grand Theft Auto V Boring

Nick Gillespie | 11.30.2013 7:43 PM

Culture

DIY Horror

Scott Shackford | 11.30.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

Oldboy

Spike Lee's unsparing tribute to a classic South Korean shocker.

Kurt Loder | 11.27.2013 9:00 AM

Culture

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Jennifer Lawrence in a bigger, somewhat better sequel.

Kurt Loder | 11.22.2013 9:00 AM