My Year of Flops

Though most publications reporting on the latest Oxford Dictionaries inclusions are leading with “butthurt,” The…

"In conjunction with Malls Week, here's a My Year Of Flops look at a mall movie nobody seemed to love."

When Will Forte commits to a role he really commits. There’s no distance or protective irony. When Forte goes all…

There are bad movies and then there are shitty miracles. In bad movies, something goes awry: The script is…

All writing is, on some level, self-indulgent. By putting pen to paper, literally and otherwise, we’re declaring…

Is Mel Gibson beyond redemption? Is anyone? Will we ever be able to watch Gibson onscreen again without thinking of…

I recently re-watched the first season of the American incarnation of Da Ali G Show in a rapt state. I am in awe of…

As I wrote in the MYOF book-exclusive Case File for W, there comes a moment in every cinephile’s intellectual and…

There are few things as tragicomic as the passion project gone awry. It’s one thing to whiff with work-for-hire.…

As indelibly documented in Neal Gabler’s essential 1988 history of early Hollywood, An Empire Of Their Own: How The…

I fell in love with Chungking Express. There are no other words to describe it. I fell for the world writer-director …

The Joaquin Phoenix-starring movie I’m Still Here represents a sticky wicket for My Year of Flops. It’s such an odd,…

Geeks of the world, I have good news. We won the culture war! I didn’t realize that until last Friday, when I saw a…

Dave Foley once seemed destined for greatness. He was funny. He was smart. He was boyishly handsome. But more than…

Somewhere, a 19-year-old is getting ready to watch a television show for the first time. This person is relatively…

Project Greenlight, the filmmaking reality competition sponsored by Miramax and produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck,…

Even famed comedy directors like John Landis—the man behind Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, An…

I generally like to wait until history has rendered a verdict on a film before writing it up for My Year Of Flops.…

The Coen brothers fulfill an important role in American society: They fuck with us. They’re tricksters who’ve made…

In a perfect world, we would all go out on top. I can imagine no death greater than that of Harry Einstein, a…