May 19, 2014

Six Essential Performances by…Oliver Platt

Our newest feature salutes some of the great character actors with a primer on their greatest performances. In our first, we saluted the outstanding performances of recently deceased actor Bob Hoskins with Six Essential Performances. This week, a look at six brilliant, and sometimes overlooked roles of Oliver Platt.
May 9, 2014

The Five: Cinema’s Worst Mothers

Usually, this is a section where highlighting good stuff is the goal. But it seemed time to give something for all the passive aggressive angry people dreading Mother’s Day.
May 5, 2014

Favreau’s Back to the Indie World!

Jon Favreau at 47, has already had an incredible career as a screenwriter, and actor and a director. In 1996 he co-wrote and co-starred in the sleeper indie hit Swingers. Since then, he's been directing big box movies like Elf, Iron Man and Iron Man 2 and has had huge success. He's also undoubtably familiar with making choices that relate to creativity, safety, compromise, quality of life and personal growth-- all themes that arise in his new film, Chef. He recently stopped by the SiriusXM studios to sit down with Ron Bennington on The Ron and Fez Show, to talk about those themes, and what its like to be working on a small film again.
May 3, 2014

Six Essential Performances of…Bob Hoskins

In the first of what we hope will be a new feature, we’ll be saluting some of the great character actors with a primer on their greatest performances. With the passing of Bob Hoskins earlier this week, it seemed only right to pay homage by kicking things off with a salute to the actor's remarkable career. Hoskins referred to himself as “5 foot six and cubic”, a self-deprecating way of describing the unique appearance of an unlikely star
May 1, 2014

The Filtered Excellence: May 1, 2014

Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Here are this weeks picks of the best things to watch, the most interesting things to do, great things to try, the best picks to read, our favorite things to listen to and more