A Few Impressions

'Man of Steel': The Super Movie

Last week I was asked to attend the London Premiere of Man of Steel, so after working on my forthcoming little thriller at Pinewood studios, I went over to Leicester Square to take in the latest filmic take on The Superhero. Full story

Don't Insult the Iron Sheik, Bubba

The Legend on His Life, Hulk Hogan, and the Documentary Being Made About Him

"I WORK OVER 50 YEARS IN THE SHOW BUSINESS AND I CAN TELL WHOEVER I WANT TO GO FUCK THEMSELVES. ANYBODY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY ARE WORLD CLASS I LET THEM KNOW IF THEY ARE OR THEY ARE NOT." Full story

Marque Cox Has Prize-Winning Roach Clips

Cha Cha is a bar in Los Angeles that skateboarders flock to like degenerate humming birds to a humming bird feeder filled with rotgut whiskey. A few months ago the Skateboard Mag helped cement Cha Cha's status in the skateboard community by supporting the first Cha Cha L… Full story

VICE Shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'The Rambler'

Director Calvin Reeder’s work is a mix of underground shock horror and existential atmosphere. Reeder specializes in turning lo-fi splatter films into bizarre and schizophrenic art films by meshing high-concept thought and design with genre story lines and expired 16 mm film stoc… Full story

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Nic Refn and Ryan Gosling Driven… to Distraction

This is one messed-up movie. There's no other way to say it, really. As fans of director Nicolas Refn and his alter ego Ryan Gosling have surely heard by now, their follow-up to Drive was pretty badly received at the Cannes Film Festival last month. Full story

A Few Impressions

The Parallel Structure in 'Strangers on a Train'

In Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, two men meet riding the railroad and discuss killing people in each other’s lives in order to duck suspicions based on motives. The parallel structure of the book allows Highsmith to jump from one character to another, showcasi… Full story

The VICE Podcast Show - Greta Gerwig

'The VICE Podcast Show' is a weekly unedited discussion in which we go inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we come across. This week, host Eddy Moretti talks with actress Greta Gerwig about the film industry and her new movie, 'Frances H… Full story

VICE Shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Sins of the Nude'

Composed of outtakes from a different short film produced for the Dutch Online Film Festival, director Todd Rohal weaves together a sordid, upsetting, and hilarious alternate version of 'Variety' critic Robert Koehler. Watch as they lampoon an unsuspecting and probably unaware fi… Full story

A Few Impressions

‘American Psycho’: Ten Years Later/Twenty Years Later

'American Psycho' is (at least for now) the pinnacle of Bret Easton Ellis's art: the dark-hearted swansong of an era that sums up its subject matter with a perfect balance of breadth and incisiveness. Gross satire delivered with a hyperrealistic technique. Full story

VICE Shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Successful Alcoholics'

In this short film, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Lizzy Caplan and T. J. Miller, a couple is awesome at life, despite being hammered all the time. But when alcohol is taken out of the equation, they are forced to reflect on their lives. Full story

Come See 'Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean' Tonight

Last week we told you about a new partnership between VICE and Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, a company dedicated to preserving classic movies and putting them in the faces of whippersnappers like you who would never see them otherwise. Tonight's screening marks the first ins… Full story

Come Watch Good Movies for Once with VICE and the Film Foundation

Movies used to be things you had to leave your house to watch. Martin Scorsese remembers that time, and he actually misses it. He and his company, the Film Foundation, have been restoring 35mm prints of classic movies. VICE and the Film Foundation will be screening the prints eve… Full story

A Few Impressions

'Leviathan,' I Love You

How did the filmmakers achieve this poetry? Because, if anything, this movie exemplifies the art of poetry without words, the art taking real life and framing it in such a way that it becomes greater than fiction. It holds up a mirror to nature, but this mirror came from a fun h… Full story

A Chat with Janicza Bravo (and Brett Gelman) About Her New Short Starring Michael Cera in a Wheelchair

Janicza’s new short 'Gregory Go Boom' stars Michael Cera as a wheelchair-bound dorkface and Brett Gelman as his older degenerate brother. It’s funny and slightly depressing, and you can watch the whole thing here. A couple weeks back I chatted with J&B over baba ghanoush about th… Full story