Notorious

In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, assumes the shape of the standard biopic formula.

"...White, Marc John Jefferies and Julia Pace Mitchell. In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Notorious Irving Klaw

My grandfather's photography studio made him rich and Bettie Page famous. It also made him into a target for Fifties censors. So, what has director Mary Harron made of him?

"...Bettie got rediscovered." – Mary Harron, director of The Notorious Bettie Page..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Rick Klaw

The Notorious Bettie Page

Gretchen Mol dazzles as the titular pinup girl, but the film raises many more questions about the enigmatic icon than it answers.

"...only recently caught up with them. Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page (co-written with Guinivere Turner) is a splendid..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Notorious C.H.O.

"...observational comics whose sitcoms actually stay on the air. Notorious C.H.O. isn't likely to put her back in the..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

New Theatre Work Puts Attendees on the Trail of Notorious Art Thieves

Hit the streets and get to the bottom of this Art Heist

"...that lets participants take a crack at solving a notorious true crime case dating back 30 years. The show,..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Gerrard Hanly

UPDATED: Death Watch: Most Notorious

Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells scheduled for execution

April 2, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Notorious N.A.D.

Bitchin’ Kitchen’s Nadia G. on blazing her own path

July 10, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

J.J. Abrams, Notorious Rug-Puller-Outter

Picture in Picture has a bone to pick with the Star Trek reboot

May 11, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Notorious J.I.G.

Now in its 10th year, 'Riverdance' is back on tour and its wildly popular celebration of Irish dance is as gloriously breathtaking as ever

June 17, 2005 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Notorious

Aug. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...known as Studio 54, the world’s most famous and notorious discotheque. That’s the unspoken promise of this documentary about..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Riding: 1980

This second installment in a three-part dramatization of dirty dealings in Yorkshire is concerned with the notorious corruption mill that powers the region’s law enforcement.

"...montage detailing the victim roll call of the UK’s notorious serial killer – but in truth, that’s a bit..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Highwaymen

Costner and Harrelson face death and mortality on the hunt for Bonnie & Clyde

"...of retirement and set on the trail of the notorious killers. Director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, The..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review

Big Kill

Low-budget Western rides high in the saddle

"...the grip of a cruel preacher (Patric) and the notorious outlaw Johnny Kane (Phillips). Despite staring down the barrel..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Whitney

Another glimpse behind the curtain at the late musical legend

"...choices are the obvious answers to what caused Houston’s notorious downward spiral. However, the question that no one seems..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hotel Artemis

A bleak but stylish future, where only criminals can afford healthcare

"...and her last patient of the night is the notorious Wolf King (Goldblum), the secret hospital’s founder and the..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Greatest Showman

Don't be fooled by this whitewashed version of the great huckster

"...19th century American impresario Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum, the notorious huckster wished for nothing more than to entertain the..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Denial

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

"...publisher, and her supporters quickly enlist the services of notorious shark solicitor Anthony Julius (an icy Scott, best known..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fill a Bowl for Stickland

State rep's stoner past comes out in primary

"...Straight-edgers of Texas, rejoice! You can legitimately claim that notorious gun nut Rep. Jonathan Stickland is not one of..."

Dec. 30, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Talvar

Hindi thriller based on a real-life murder investigation

"...stars in this Hindi-language thriller based on a real-life, notorious double-murder investigation...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Mass

Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger

"...It might be for a crime drama about the notorious South Boston gang leader James “Whitey” Bulger, currently serving..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The End of the Tour

Fictional but satisfying portrayal of a David Foster Wallace interview by a Rolling Stone reporter

"...Movies about writers can be notorious slogs but, amazingly, The End of the Tour is..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.

"...and unknown to the sheriff, the leader of a notorious crime cartel, Gabriel Cortez (Noriega), is being transported by..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Town

Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in this gripping action-drama about bank robbers.

"...Boston, but rather Charlestown, a kill-or-be-killed stretch of land notorious for hatching bank robbers like chickens do eggs. Ingrained..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number.

"...be quivering, too, but not necessarily from happiness. This notorious Dutch film is sort of a thinking person’s torture-porn..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Girl Cut in Two

French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.

"...with his stepdaughter, Cécile Maistre) was inspired by a notorious love triangle involving Gilded Age architect Stanford White; while..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Standard Operating Procedure

The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.

"...Morris examines the atrocity of Abu Ghraib and the notorious photographs which have come to signify all the tortured..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bra Boys

Russell Crowe narrates this insider's documentary about Australia's Bra Boys – a family of brawlers whose exploits are legendary.

"...from Maroubra, Australia’s impoverished ocean-side housing projects, or a notorious gang of tattooed thugs ruling the beaches through violence..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Zoo

Filmmaker Robinson Devor sadly sabotages his own attempt to bring the practice of bestiality into the light.

"...last film) base Zoo on the events surrounding the notorious "Enumclaw horse incident" of 2005, in which a man..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zodiac

The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.

"...procedural. Based on Robert Graysmith’s two books about the notorious Zodiac murders that gripped the San Francisco area in..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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