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The Office, NBC's critically acclaimed sitcom, has just ended a highly successful run. The show about a group of office workers in Scranton, Pa., was based on a British comedy of the same name. But The Office was hardly the first nor the most ...

The Internet is supposedly the great leveler—a universal space without regard for physical boundaries or strata. This claim is half-illustrated by Kevin Morris at The Daily Dot in his story about Zhu Ling, a Chinese student who was poisoned in ...

Warren Spector tackles the thorny issue of Metacritic's impact on the industry in his second exclusive column for GamesIndustry International To qualify for column treatment here, a subject has to involve something I've been thinking about a lot - a ...

When Raymond Sokolov became the food editor of The New York Times in 1971, replacing Craig Claiborne, some people still felt that writing about kitchens and restaurants wasnt mans work. Mr. Sokolov ran into Pauline Kael, the film critic at The New ...

This story first appeared in the May 17 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Cannes is the place where, given a choice, most filmmakers would like to be anointed, to be admitted to the pantheon. So it was for Robert Altman, who, after 15 years ...

The 12th edition of New York's Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) was arguably its best yet, in terms of the quality of the many films caught and the degree to which the event offered more panels, conferences and short films that explored how new ...

Good Bad Movies "Good bad movies have been around since the dawn of cinema. Logically, they cannot be more common to one era than another. If you're looking for empty-headed entertainment on a Saturday night, you could pop in an early Chaplin short ...

The scene is a rough wooden fort on an East Texas homestead. A nine-year-old girl wearing a calico dress stands in the doorway, shielding her eyes as she squints into the horizon. In the distance, she can barely see the sun glinting off of Comanche ...

The 1950s are full of movies that were initially greeted, by critics and audiences, with indifference or derision, only to be hailed as masterpieces in hindsight. Vertigo, The Searchers and The Sweet Smell of Success are among the best-known ...