Spike Jonze
Watch the YouTube Awards Tonight
There is a place where YouTube exists IRL. Inside this place M.I.A. hula hoops next to a gigantic pink box created by Earl Sweatshirt. This place is Pier 36 in New York City, and it’s the setting for the first-ever YouTube Music Awards, happening this...
It’s Little, But It’s Mean
Irving Zisman is the sexually vigorous 86-year-old who serves as a role model for horndog octogenarians. He stars in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. He was kind enough to talk to me about the new movie and give me hope that as an old person I don...
Look What Arrived in the Mail Today from Spike Jonze
The illustrious Spike Jonze sent us a letter congratulating us on our Emmy nomination, and we just had to share it with you all. The awards are on September 22, so hopefully we can contain our excitement for that long.
George Gage's Cult Classic 'Skateboard' Is Coming to BAMcinématek
For this week's Mahal, I talked to director George Gage about his film 'Skateboard.' Released in 1978, the film tells the tale of a semi-bald loser who decides to manage a team of skateboarding teens in hopes of covering some unsettled debts with his...
Watch the Trailer for the New Spike Jonze Film, 'Her'
Our buddy Spike Jonze has a new film coming out, and it looks weird, beautiful, heartbreaking, and any other adjectives you would use to describe a movie about a sad man's romantic relationship with a piece of female artificial intelligence. Judging...
From "Video Days" to Finding Islam, Jordan Richter Has Been Always Been on His Own Trip
Jordan Richter has been on a nonstop journey since appearing in the Blind Skateboards movie Video Days in 1991. He’s the subject of a recent documentary called Wayward Son about his life in skateboarding and finding Islam, and then returning to...
Spike Jonze
In the five years since we’ve become friends with Spike Jonze, he has never not been working on his movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are.