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I try not to think of it as comedy and drama. I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real.

How Julianne Moore gently sidesteps all the bad parts of being a movie star.

Now that the Oscar nominations have been announced, we can start grappling with the real puzzler: Is Jon Stewart going to blow?

Indie films don’t have to end up as downers. Heroin addiction and child molestation can’t always be overcome in a 90-minute feature, as Sundance films like to remind us.

Boris Karloff could be the most fiendish bogeyman imaginable but also the grandfather reading you the story of that bogeyman in the safety of your bedroom.

Why has America gone nuts for blood, guts, and sadism?

Every year at Sundance, there’s at least one racy sex film. This year, you get seven for the price of one in Destricted.

What makes James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments so powerful is that he spent enough time there for unpredictable ideas to incubate and shot enough footage to explore them.

A guide to the same-day-release movement.

He’s been photographed by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, airbrushed by Tom of Finland, and lampooned by Owen Wilson in Zoolander, yet self-made gay icon and porn star Peter Berlin is most famous for his obsessive documentation of his scantily clad self.