Late in life (in his 70s), widely famed Russian novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (known to his friends as “Leo Baby”) turned his attentions [...]

Out here in the Western half of the United States, the concept of the open road has always stood for freedom. From Horace [...]

For all the emotional panic that surrounds the holiday, Valentine’s Day is actually quite easy. About the laziest, least-thought-out thing you can do [...]

Lurking somewhere between the far-from-overlapping worlds of mesmerizing monologuist Spalding Gray and nutty Internet conspiracy monger Jeff Rense is Michael Ruppert. The retired-police-officer-turned-radical-thinker [...]

Angels with machine guns: Doesn’t that sound bad-ass? It’s like tigers with switchblades. Or sharks with lasers. It’s awesomeness squared. And it’s pretty [...]

Sometimes, I think Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier is a genius ( The Kingdom , for example). Other times, I think he’s just [...]

Like Crash or Babel , Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth employs a polyglot cast, a wide-ranging backdrop and assorted convergent storylines to ruminate [...]

Directed with gusto by controversial indie filmmaker Miguel Arteta ( Star Maps, Chuck & Buck ), starring overexposed but always amusing Michael Cera [...]

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has always worshipped at the altar of the classic Hollywood melodrama. The earthly avatars of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford [...]

Two guys in an undisclosed location create counterfeit websites of real corporations. If this sounds like part of an identity theft scheme, well, [...]