In today’s must-read links for your lunch break: Absolutely everything you need to prepare for Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
Richard Corliss
Reading While Eating For June 23: What’s Trending Worldwide
Today’s links showcase what’s trending in the West, the East and more. And check out the video about the stuff that keeps the industrial world going — not money, but coffee!
Was Terrence Malick’s Epic Tree of Life Really the Best Film at Cannes?
The long-awaited impressionistic film – pulled from last year’s Cannes at the last minute – stole the show with the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize.
What Are The 10 Most Pretentious Things People Said About Jackass 3D?
FilmDrunk has a great list up today of the 10 most pretentious quotes from reviews of Jackass 3D. Fortunately, they did not include any quotes from our critic Richard Corliss, who in his review called the film “a hymn to …
Machete Review: Sharp, Bloody Fun
TIME’s Richard Corliss is giddy with excitement about the over-the-top violence in this Mexploitation film, calling it “90 minutes of shooting, double-dealing and exploding heads — nonstop mayhem with a corpse count in the …
Lena Horne Funeral: A Life on Stage and Screen
A celebrity who’s who list showed up to New York’s St. Ignatius Loyola Church to pay their respects to Lena Horne. (Via Essence.com.)