Tabloid

Errol Morris finds a real character for his documentary subject this time – scandal magnet Joyce McKinney, who allegedly abducted and raped a Mormon missionary.

"...a real knack for ferreting out charismatic eccentrics, and Tabloid subject Joyce McKinney seems like an obvious addition to..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'Chronicle' Is More Tabloid Than Alternative

"...to remain an “alternative” weekly, instead of just a tabloid, it might consider asking some more difficult questions, such..."

June 30, 2009 Postmarks

Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer

The shocking history of America's sleaziest tabloid

"...about the rise and fall of America’s premier supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer opens with Pulitzer Prize-winning dragon-slayer Carl..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Film Festival Review: Scandalous

The true story behind The National Enquirer's smear machine

"...about the rise and fall of America’s premiere supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer opens with Pulitzer Prize-winning dragon-slayer Carl..."

Oct. 29, 2019 Screens Post by Steve Davis

The Front Runner

Jason Reitman revisits a long-ago time when a sex scandal could ruin a candidate's shot at the presidency

"...All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, Reitman is clearly addressing post-Bill Clinton and Trump-era viewers..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Maps to the Stars

David Cronenberg's film, with a script by Bruce Wagner, is a darkly humorous moral fable aimed at Hollywood.

"...ugly, empty world where everyone’s destruction is just a tabloid tip away. They are all yearning to escape from..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Foxcatcher

The performances by Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo anchor this drama, which nearly sinks from its weightiness.

"...pacing will contribute to a greater meaning beyond the tabloid fodder that advances the otherwise mundane narrative of a..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beyond the Lights

A popular singer finds the courage to be herself with the help of a friendly cop.

"...The Bodyguard, revealing nothing new about the toxicity of tabloid culture in the process, yet writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Last of Robin Hood

Kevin Kline is Errol Flynn in this confused story of his late-life affair with 15-year-old Beverly Aadland.

"...To ambitiously approach this inherently tabloid tale of the end-of-life romantic fling Errol Flynn (Kline)..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Killing Kasztner

This documentary is about the little-remembered figure Rudolf Israel Kasztner, who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann for the release of 1,700 Jews from Hungary, only to later be castigated for Nazi collaboration.

"...its heroes – and this amateurish film, with its tabloid-TV zooms and hokey visual metaphors, simply isn't up to..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bronson

Tom Hardy delivers a searing performance as Britain's so-called "most violent prisoner."

"...those years in solitary confinement, and has become a tabloid sensation as the so-called “most violent prisoner in Britain.”..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!

A hotshot movie star learns about small-town virtue in a forgettable romantic comedy.

"...star Tad Hamilton’s (Duhamel) drunken night of debauchery hit tabloid stands, Tad’s agent and manager (Lane and Hayes) must..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Time Out (L'emploi Du Temps)

"...and children. But director and co-scripter Cantet turns this tabloid-fodder scenario into a modulated, keenly insightful psychodrama with an..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mrs. Brown

"...spirits, but it also triggered one of the first tabloid scandals. Nowadays, of course, jaded tab readers require nothing..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Cure

"...they believe (thanks to an article in a questionable tabloid newspaper) that a scientist has discovered the cure for..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...its inspiration more from George Eliot's Silas Marner than tabloid television's coverage of the Baby Jessica and Kimberly Mays..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kika

"...Down! with this genuinely bizarre indictment of everything from tabloid journalism to romantic entanglements. Forque is Kika, a blowzy..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Serial Mom

"...inability to report any murderous scoop without resorting to tabloid techniques. Turner is Beverly Sutphin, a suburban Baltimore all-American..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Children of the Corn Ii: The Final Sacrifice

"...Behind the Rows. Into this rapidly escalating corn-spiracy step tabloid journalist John Garrett (Knox) and his estranged son Danny..."

Feb. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Public Eye

"...as the great freelance photographer Weegee, whose brutally realistic tabloid photos of New York City nightlife defined an era,..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...well as the introduction to the massive, myth-debunking American Tabloid (Random House, $25 hard), the latest work from one..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Red Dragon

"...he's baffled by the body count rising from the tabloid-dubbed "Tooth Fairy Killer," Graham, like Clarice Starling in The..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...Cold Six Thousand (Knopf, $25.95). The sequel to American Tabloid, and the middle book in his trilogy about America..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dead Women Owned His Soul

An Interview with James Ellroy

"...The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, and American Tabloid. But with this giant leap forward in his writing..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Michael

Travolta plays an unkempt, beer-swilling, Beatles-quoting angel who – yes – also dances.

"...of William Hurt whose bemused diffidence as a jaded tabloid reporter shows signs of someone actually working to create..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...L.A. Quartet, will discuss adapting his grimy classic American Tabloid into a podcast. Not that he'll be alone on..."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

Let the SXSW onslaught begin ...

"...of this puzzle is our readers. We're not a tabloid, we're not a lightweight, reader-friendly compendium of capsules. We're..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Kustom Film Kommando

Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

"...currently there's a "gossip industry." I mean there are tabloid shows, of course there are tabloid papers. Is Hollywood..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

May December

Portman and Moore captivate in a spiky, funny melodrama of old transgressions

"...woman she’ll be playing soon in a movie – tabloid sensation Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Moore), a Mary Kay Letourneau-like wife..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Babylon

Star-studded, bittersweet love letter to the golden age of Hollywood is cinema maximus

"...Pitt, the other to him by Jean Smart as tabloid queen Elinor St. John (Chazelle's proxy for OG starfucker..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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