The Next Nerd Obsession
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Lost is ending soon, Battlestar Galactica is over, and Heroes has faltered. Can a TV version of A Game of Thrones save the geekosphere?
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, guitars lost a creator but gained a documentary, anime made yet another comeback, and Molly Ringwald poured her heart out. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in culture.
Apartheid for Aliens
Tom Shone was film critic of the London Sunday Times from 1994-1999. He is the author of two books, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Free Press) and In The Rooms (Hutchinson), his first novel, to be published on July 7th 2009. He lives in New York.
In the new sci-fi feature "District 9," a spaceship lands on Johannesburg. And the only thing scarier than the invaders are the humans.
The Yes List
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the highly anticipated trailer for The Lovely Bones is unveiled.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, a hearty helping of Meryl Streep, nerds love G.I. Joe, Woodstock flashbacks, Paula's swan song, and more. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in TV, music, movies, and art.
After what seems like the longest promotional campaign of the summer, Julie & Julia finally hits theaters this weekend. For the most part, the crit...
Is Watchmen the Next Dark Knight?
Anne Thompson launched the daily ThompsononHollywood blog in March 2007, when she joined Variety as a columnist. Previously, she was deputy film editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly syndicated column "Risky Business" and the Riskybizblog. She has also served as west coast editor of Premiere and Film Comment, and senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.
The brilliant graphic novel has a cult following. The director is coming off a surprise blockbuster. But just how high can this super-noir superhero movie fly?
Spielberg's List
Tom Tapp is the West Coast Editor of The Daily Beast. He has been covering the entertainment industry for over a dozen years as an editor and writer, both online and in print. Before joining The Daily Beast, Tom Tapp created and ran Hollywood WireTap.com, which was named one of the 100 "Sites to Bookmark Now" by Entertainment Weekly before being sold to Hollywood Media Corporation.
The break-up between DreamWorks and Paramount raises questions about what Hollywood's biggest director will take on next.
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.
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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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