Sonics 100 Knicks 99: Don’t blame this one on Stephon Marbury. Yes, he missed the tying free throw with under a second left, but after scoring 40 points, the blame for this loss lies elsewhere. Start with the defensive effort by the entire team, which was nonexistent until Malk Rose showed up in the third quarter. Seattle shot 52% for the game, which is inexcusable. You can also point the finger at Eddy Curry who......

There's two majorly horrific films coming out this weekend, though only some of the frights are intentional. Gaspard Ulliel seemed like such a nice boy in A Very Long Engagement, but that was before he decided to take on the psycho killer character Hannibal Lecter in the prequel, Hannibal Rising. Apparently in this installment of the series we'll find out what led the Doctor to become a creepy dilettante with a taste for fava beans,......

This weekend at the movies means a bunch of overblown new releases. Clerks II is out this weekend and if Kevin Smith didn't think he was the coolest before, he does now that Joel Siegel's walked out of one of his press screenings. You can read about the whole back and forth then decide if you too will be more offended by some reference to bestiality or that Jay and Silent Bob still have cultural......

There are so many holiday theatre offerings right now, many of them closing when Christmas is still a week or more away, so we are going to be ornery and focus on non-seasonal stuff, of which there is plenty, as usual. One show that just caught our eye is Under a Montana Moon, performed by the mime Bill Bowers. We get a lot of puppetry on stages here, but miming, not so much, and Bowers......

For a little while now, Barbès in Park Slope has been Brooklyn's equivalent to Cinema Classics/Riffifi: a bar with a back room performance space showing different kinds of classic and interesting cinema once a week on a 16 mm projector. Oh yeah .. and it's free. The technology might not be as good as the more standard repertory houses around town, but the programming is usually fairly interesting. Cinema Classics/Riffifi has turned their Monday screenings......

Ah, to see our city's tabloids on the opposite sides of a table. Headline check: The Daily News goes for the literal, while the Post recalls a tune (although it seems backhanded, since the song is "The Lady is a Tramp). The Times' David Sanger says Condoleeza Rice sticks to the script while the Washington Post's Tom Shales says she could have done the whole testimony with "a teacup and saucer on her head. She's......

Movies at Alice Tully Hall Alice Tully Hall is where many New York Film Festival films are screened, and for the first year, where New Directors/New Films is taking place. My fondness of Alice Tully Hall also stems from the fact that by now, I know the optimal seats for movie viewing as well as talk participation....