MOVIE: Bryant Park ends their summer of big screen fun with the classic horror flick Psycho - the movie that made many afraid to shower (and probably scared to check-in to hotels). Bring your best scream...and a blanket. more ›

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, has become known for his ability to elicit naturalistic acting performances from his handsome young actors and that style expertly employed in this new movie. Visually, the movie strives to also be low-key, though it is beautifully composed. Scenes that might have been played for massive dramatic appeal--like the murdering of four officers in a pub's back room [pictured]--are delivered with little visual or musical preface and as a result have an even more powerful impact. This should be a note to Hollywood, violence doesn't always have to have the fan fair of a video game. (Fun fact about Loach's casting process/attention to real details: Murphy, as well as other some other actors, are from County Cork where the movie was shot and thus have totally authentic accents.) more ›

Even though the weather isn't encouraging you to stay inside, there's still a whole host of new flicks to check out at the theaters. more ›

The non-election-related water cooler question: Did you see Borat? Did you brave crowds of people (mad rush at multiplexes, lines around the block at smaller theaters) to witness a Jewish Englishman portray a hapless Kazakh journalist with a chicken in his suitcase? Did you wonder how the crew was not arrested? Everywhere we went, people were talking about Borat. At the restaurant. At the grocery store. In the subway. All. Talking. About. Borat. Hell, people were buying tickets to Babel and The Departed because they couldn't see Borat. Which proves that if you send your silly, controversial, anti-Semitic mustachioed character on every news outlet possible and you'll get a number one movie. more ›

Michelle Goldberg, Brooklyn resident and senior political reporter for Salon.com, recently published her first book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a detailed examination of the rise of Christian Nationalism. Her research took her outside the largely secular NYC, and even further afield from the liberal ideology of which New Yorkers have grown so accustomed. In her book, Goldberg details the actions and intentions of the Christian right and presents a clear picture of politics under an evangelical president. more ›

(in bookstores Feburary 10th) doesn’t require me to know anything more than his own skewed, skewering version of Hamptons life. more ›

Jessica Coen, Editor, Gawker.com more ›

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From Belle to Belle de Jour, TV's favorite annoying mafia princess, Jamie Lynn Sigler, will be portraying Heidi Fleiss in a USA Networks TV film about Fleiss called "Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss." It promises to follow Fleiss's transformation from rich teenager to call-girl ring running businesswoman, complete with her learning the tricks of the trade. USA Networks executive Jeffrey Wachtel says, "I think Jamie is the perfect combination of a girl next door with real intelligence who has the ability to manipulate every situation she is in. We've seen it in her role as Meadow on 'The Sopranos,' but it is much darker here." Fleiss looks so rough these days it's almost hard to imagine apple-cheeked Sigler in it, but we understand Jamie-Lynn's desire to be known as something other than Meadow or a singing belly button for Levi's commercials. more ›