What's your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration.
This morning we released our ranking of America's most cantankerous film critics, and since then, several people, including winner Kyle Smith of the New York Post, have asked why longtime New York City critic Armond White was left out of our contest.
Call it brash independence, a unique way of seeing, or simple cantankerousness, but it's often struck us while reading film reviews that some critics enjoy going against the grain. We crunched some numbers to crown America's most cantankerous film critic.
An international trailer for the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady has been released, and it presents itself as a stirring King's Speech (meets Evita?) style drama about a populist hero overcoming adversity. Wait. Are we talking about the same Margaret Thatcher here?
Clint Eastwood's not a Republican. He's not a Democrat either. He didn't object when GQ classified him as a "social libertarian" in an interview last month, but it's technically not a form of libertarianism, which is okay, because Eastwood and politics were a bad match from the start.
Stunning stop motion animation and pretty embroidered book covers make Spike Jonze's latest project look both gorgeous and gruesome.
Plus: Sue Mengers, 78, died at her home, what Aaron Sorkin thought of 'Moneyball'
Plus: The Tommy Lee Jones contract snafu that keeps on costing Paramount
Plus: Diablo Cody's directorial debut gets a cast
Plus: Anderson Cooper's syndicated talk show debuts Monday
Plus: A two minute history of the movie title sequence
Plus: A rave review that will erase any lingering doubts about 'Moneyball'
Plus: Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma among this year's Kennedy Center honorees
Plus: 1988 George Lucas calls out 'egotistical gangsters' like 2011 George Lucas
A provocative column says martial movie fare helped gloss war's image, then and now
Plus: Wolverine could be learning the way of the samurai in Canada
Plus: Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher biopic gets a harsh initial response
Plus: Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy are making an identity theft comedy
Hollywood is wondering whether lavish deals for super directors can be sustained
Surely someone's filmed sadder scene than 1995's 'The Champ'
It's the studio's first film threatened with the "rotten" label
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