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Inside the Mind of Charlie Sheen

By Karina Longworth
Feb 7, 2013

Charlie Sheen lives in a big, yellow house on a T-shaped intersection in the middle of a fake neighborhood in a gated community off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. When I arrive there on a Saturday afternoon in January, I am intercepted in Sheen's driveway by a security guard, a...
Unchained Malady: Quentin Tarantino Emerges From a Chaotic Couple of Years With His Most Ambitious Film to Date. Will the Academy Really, Really Like It?

By Karina Longworth
Dec 27, 2012

Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django Unchained, opens on Christmas Day, is famously an analog evangelist: He writes his scripts in longhand; he bans cellphones from his sets, and hasn't had one of his own in years;...
"Killing Them Softly" Movie Review: Crime Is Just Business in Obama's America

By Karina Longworth
Nov 29, 2012

An adaptation of George V. Higgins's 1974 novel Cogan's Trade, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers, and administrators to indict a present-day mainstream world by suggesting that the criminal satellite economy and the "straight" superstructure are functionally the same. It's a movie that...
Extraordinary "The Loneliest Planet" Explores Sex and Gender Murkiness

By Karina Longworth
Nov 29, 2012

The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up shot of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It's not what it sounds like. Nica (Hani Furstenberg), on a premarriage honeymoon with fiancé Alex (Gael García Bernal) in rural Georgia, is in the midst of a makeshift shower. As Nica pogoes up and...
Sadly, "Hitchcock," Starring Anthony Hopkins and Scarlett Johansson, Bears the Influence of Reality TV

By Karina Longworth
Nov 22, 2012

Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet at the premiere of his 1959 chase film, North by Northwest. "You're 60 years old!" shouts a reporter. The scene is an announcement that Hitchcock will be...

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