Summer's 15 Best Indie Films
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Turned off by Transformers? Burned by Brüno? Fed up with Up? Get off cinema's beaten path with our picks for the best indie romances, thrillers, and documentaries of the season.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Nabokov got a second life in Playboy, a ballerina sat on Letterman's couch, Brüno skipped into theaters, the world said goodbye to MJ, and more.
How Male Bisexuality Got Cool
Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
From TV bromances to political man crushes, male bisexuality has gone mainstream. But is it a sign of true sexual attraction-or just an act?
The 3 Must-See Movies from Sundance
Hailed as "freakishly smart" by the New York Times, Karina Longworth is the Brooklyn-based editor of SpoutBlog.
Sundance correspondent Karina Longworth on the films that wowed-and those that just couldn't live up to the hype.
What If Judd Apatow Were a Woman?
Hailed as "freakishly smart" by the New York Times, Karina Longworth is the Brooklyn-based editor of SpoutBlog.
Humpday celebrates a complex bromance and becomes an early breakout film at Sundance. Plus: You won't want to miss Stella Schnabel in her first leading role.
If a Film Falls in the Forest…
Hailed as "freakishly smart" by the New York Times, Karina Longworth is the Brooklyn-based editor of SpoutBlog.
Most Hollywood types are ditching the Park City snow for the Inauguration this year. Will Sundance become a ghost town?
Here Comes the Sundance
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
As the Sundance Film Festival gets underway in Park City, Utah, we preview what's coming to a theater near you in 2009.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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