trailer break: ‘Youth Knows No Pain’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Man, these people are sad! An expiration date as a woman? Jesus. Maybe an expiration date as a shallow person obsessed with surface appearances? Or maybe not, if you apply enough plastic surgery. Then you get an expiration date as a realistic-looking human people, right? Maybe someday … more…

Smile Pinki (review)

If you could use some good news — and who couldn’t? — then you’ll want to see “Smile Pinki,” this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary Short debuting tonight on HBO at 7pm Eastern.

trailer break: ‘V: The Series’

Take a break from work: watch a TV trailer… Heh: Alien babes are hot. Oh, man, remember when Diana ate that hamster? Remember when the aliens took off their faces and they were lizards? That was awesome. Can a remake possibly have anything as shocking up its sleeve? They’re already telling us here that we’re … more…

trailer break: ‘Trouble the Water’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Trouble the Water TrailerUploaded by HBOclips This amazing documentary — which I reviewed last autumn — is debuting on HBO tomorrow night at 8:30pm Eastern. It’s an extraordinary film about how extraordinary ordinary people can be. Don’t miss it. Trouble the Water will be released on DVD … more…

question of the day: Is HBO going online in the right way?

I’ve long been an advocate of TV shows being made available online, but it seems to me that HBO has it entirely wrong: Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the country, is working with customers here to test a subscriber model for online TV viewing. Residents who pay for HBO can watch “Big … more…

trailer break: ‘Taking Chance’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Oh man, I’m getting a lump in my throat and tears welling in my eyes just from this trailer. No pictures of coffins coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s what the men who sent our soldiers into harm’s way decreed. They thought they could make … more…

Tribeca ’07: The Gates (review)

You will hear, Let them eat gates. I can’t imagine a better choice for the closing-night film of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival: The Gates — a stunning, beautiful, deeply moving documentary about the art project by installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude — will have its world premiere on Saturday night with a gala screening. … more…

Thin (review)

I thought I had issues with food — I just like it too much. But to see the four women portrayed in Lauren Greenfield’s startling documentary Thin is to see people at war not only with food but with their own minds and bodies.

Entourage: The Complete First Season (review)

It’s very easy to puncture the self-importance of Hollywood types, and this HBO original series never fails to take that easy route, though it cloaks itself in a veneer of intelligence and insight. Vince Chase is the hottest thing to hit the movies since Johnny Depp, but Adrian Grenier (Hart’s War) fails to make us … more…