Grindhouse (directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino): Directors and friends Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez really love old movies, particularly the exploitation B movies of '70s with their silly fake violence and boobs galore. They've crafted a three hour, double feature homage to their favorite genre called Grindhouse, which starts with Rodriguez's chemical weapon zombies on Planet Terror, takes a brief intermission with some fake "prevue" shorts and ends with Tarantino's car chase/girl's revenge......

Billy Bob Thorton sets aside his raunchy Bad Santa persona with his new family movie The Astronaut Farmer about a man building a rocket in his backyard. This family drama looks cheesy like Velveeta from the previews, but hey, that's what you expect with these "ordinary Dad does extraordinary thing" movies. They're always heavy on the sentiment. Jim Carrey senses the universe may be trying to communicate mysteries to him through numerology and a book......

Finally, after months of waiting, the Jacko-inspired Anna Wintour & the Chocolate Factory finally hits theatres and we strongly suggest seeing it at the IMAX, on Broadway at 68th St. For those of you embracing procrasination and wasting more time at work, have fun with the Trailer Crashers - The Wedding Crashers' promotional tool in which you can easily insert you and a friend in the trailer (last week we substituted Krucoff and Lockhart......

If you’re avoiding Kingdom of Heaven or House of Wax—and really, we don’t blame you—Gothamist suggests checking out the alternative and low-budget movies hitting New York’s smaller theatres. While, according to the NYTimes, a certain portion of moviegoers “will no doubt buy tickets hoping to see [Paris Hilton] meet a gruesome end," we think you’re better off with the following: Documentary Buffs should check out the critically acclaimed Double Dare, a look at two female......

This weekend begins the 42nd New York Film Festival presented by the Film Society at Lincoln Center and it's 17 days of international films, new pictures from old favorites and introductions to unsung artists. There's too many things playing over the next couple of weeks to mention in only one posting, even the first weekend alone is a packed schedule. The opening film this Friday will be French actress-director Agnès Jaoui's Look At Me, an......

Tomorrow, untold numbers of Asians and others will be protesting the controversial 'Gay or Asian' article in Details magazine. More information about the protest can be found here, but expect to see some neatly printed signs at from noon till 1PM in front of the Fairchild Publications building at 7 West 34th Street. In the spirit of Whitney McNally's horribly misguided "spoof," Gothamist imagines that Fairchild Publications is passing around a memo like this:If you......

Hey, everybody, a little independent film called Kill Bill, Volume 2, is coming out this Friday. Apparently there's a DVD of DVD of Kill Bill, Volume 1 out there and it really is about killing a guy named Bill - go check out first! Actually, don't bother buying the DVD - there will probably be a souped up version of it later down the road. Yes, Gothamist is a little tired of all the Kill......

Gothamist's favorite criticism of Uma Thurman's dress comes from Michael Gallagher, who tells the Post, "Christian Lacroix performed an abortion on Uma Thurman. The dress was hideous. She looked like a nun in a Cossack factory." If only everyone had a style maven to brutally dissect what you thought was the dress for you to wear on such an important night. And at least her dress gave us something to talk about like: "A giant......

We should have known: Miramax's (assy) decision to release Kill Bill in two parts gets another twist. Vol. 2, originally scheduled to be released next month, will be delayed, according to Variety (registration required), for at least two months. It may be delayed till May if Miramax wants to bring the film to Cannes, as the festival's organizer would love for KB V2 to open the event. Other reasons may include Vol. 1 going to......

If it's movies awards season, it's time for Gothamist to be both excited and angry (basically an average day, just amped up a bit). The Golden Globe Nominations for 2004 were announced and there were the expected nominees ("Lord of the Rings," "Cold Mountain," for film; "Sex and the City" for TV) as well as happy news (Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannssen nominated for "Lost in Translation"; we'd like to see Murray win, but he......

Roger Ebert answers many interesting movie-related questions every other Sunday as "Movie Answer Man" but this week, his second question-and-answer is particularly revealing: A reader asks if ultra–gory Kill Bill is rated R, why is Lost in Translation R also and why Whale Rider is one level lower than Kill Bill with a PG–13. Ebert starts his explanation with "The MPAA rating system is guided by the greed of the movie industry and its fear......

Gothamist doesn't know how to take the 8/10 score we got on the Guardian's Quentin Tarantino quiz. On the one hand, we thought we knew our QT. On the other hand, why the hell should we know the QT, it's embarrassing we knew that much to break 5. Fametracker gives Uma the Fame Audit (Assets: Hot! Liabilities: Dull!); we also love the Rebecca Pidgeon tangent. QT has a potty mouth. Kill Bill bloodies theaters today.......

Quentin Tarantino eloquently rages on about computer-generated effects in movies to Empire: "You know, my guys are all real. There's no computer fucking around. I'm sick to death of all that shit. This is old school with fucking cameras. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have gone home and stuck my dick in my Nintendo." Meanwhile, Gothamist believes that it's Kill Bill star Uma Thurman's husband, Ethan Hawke, in the first blind......

The new trailer for Kill Bill, Volume 1, is up at Yahoo! Movies. Gothamist can't tell if we are that into some of Uma's line deliveries, but we do think some of the set-ups are great (school girl with crazy weapon; school boy who is shamed into crying; Uma vs. Vivica Fox, interrupted by Vivica's character's kid coming home from school; Daryl Hannah walking menacingly down the hall). And we can't complain when a character......

The Times reports that Quentin Tarantino's eagerly awaited film, Kill Bill, will be released in two parts, versus one. Kill Bill's press machine has been in overdrive, ever since it was Tarantino, after a five-year break, directing Uma Thurman in China, with lots of kung fu and wire work...yeah, you know the story. About a revenge-seeking female assassin after being in a five year coma caused by a hit on her wedding day, the first......