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Interview: "Dior and I" Director. Film and Fashion Are More Connected Than...
Jose here to bring you and interview as the new documentary Dior and I opens in select theaters. In April 2012, Raf Simons was announced as the new creative director at Christian Dior, fashion experts...
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Ask Nathaniel
I'll pick ten questions to answer on Monday night. But remember to keep it tight because book length questions get ignored. Two (unrelated) themes to inspire your questions this week: "Stage" and...
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Crawford Week Finale: To Those Who Can't Blend In!
This week's Joan Crawford mania, sparked by back-to-back best shot eppys (Mommie Dearest and Johnny Guitar) and a coincidental shout out to Mildred Pierce on Mad Men / reader question about Golden Age...
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Posterized: Alex Garland of "Ex Machina" Fame
My schedule has been in complete disarray so I haven't yet seen Ex-Machina, opening today in limited release, but I've heard many thumbs up from the critical community. As an early adopter of this...
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April Showers: Rachel Getting Married
April Showers - some nights at 11. Here's new contributor Sebastian on a TFE favorite... a shower scene from one of my favorite films Jonatham Demme's Rachel Getting Married (2008) takes place over the...
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Say What Brad?
Amuse us by adding a caption or quote to this picture of Brad Pitt on the set of his new movie The Big Short (2016). Winner gets to choose the next banner theme because enough with the actors as...
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Daredevil 1-2
I fell in love with Daredevil as a young boy when Frank Miller, pre Dark Knight, took over the comic. It wasn't just the sexiness of a blind superhero (what?). Miller's run in the early 80s brought us...
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Coming Soon to "Best Shot"
Why not join our merriest movie club? You only have to 1) watch the movie, 2) take a screengrab of your favorite image and 3) post it somewhere online saying why you chose it. It's that easy! Here's...
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Daredevil 3-4
Daredevil bum never splits Murdock suits... even while leaping wildly up fireescapesThe secret reason that it's healthy to write about Netflix shows: it slows down the binge-watching. The side-effects...
View ArticleTweets For Your Amusement
Some of the best tweets of the week for your pleasure or in case you missed them. I'm off to a friend's birthday party. More movie, tv, and Tony-aimed stage stuff later. It's going to be a busy blog...
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Box Office Machina Sparks
Scott Eastwood (Son O' Clint) headlines the new Nicholas SparksFurious 7 and Home dominated the charts just like last week and Cinderella logged its fifth consecutive week in the top five -- she's got...
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Pay Homage At Your Own Risk!
Best wishes to Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergaras as they prep for opening weekend of Hot Pursuit (which I hope is fun) but good luck living up to this reference. You'll need it times ∞
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MTV Movie Awards: The Winners
Manuel here, pretending he’s still part of the demographic for the MTV Movie Awards. Amy Schumer (“Half of you don’t know me and half of you think I’m Meghan Trainor” she quipped at the start of the...
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Beauty vs Beast: Anna and the King
Every Monday morning I wake up excited to see what face-off Jason has challenged us with so I thank him as ever for this series. But he's out of town so I'm filling in. Let's go with a musical since...
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Mad Men @ the Movies: Ali + Brigitte = Megan?
Julia Ormond returns to her Emmy-nominated role as Megan's motherLynn Lee, back again to discuss Mad Men at the Movies. The title of this week’s episode was “New Business,” which may or may not be...
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79 Days 'til "Magic Mike XXL"
Channing Tatum's got the moves on the first of what is surely a series of character posters. Still wish we were getting new characters rather than bringing back the old ones (Channing excluded of...
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Q&A Part 1: Avatar the Musical (Not Really) & Instant Classics
For this week's "Ask Nathaniel" party, I asked people to be inspired by the theater (Tony season is upon us) or by the science fiction genre. I promised 10 questions. 10 answers but that's too long. So...
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Curio: Movie Amigurumi
Alexa here with some film craftiness. Amigurumi, those Japanese, uber-cute, anthropomorphic crochet dolls have been popular now for long enough that I thought they'd be jumping the shark already. But...
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Daredevil 5-7
Previously: Episodes 1 and 2 and 3 and 4... In the next three episodes the tension really escalates as Fisk starts taking down his own accomplices and Matthew's life gets far more crowded with thorny...
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Knock Knock. Who's Guest Blogging?
A Scene From PRISONERS (2013) It's David Dastmalchian! Perhaps you don't know his name yet but you probably know his face (The Dark Knight, Prisoners, TV guest spots and two movies this summer:...
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