Felon Fest: Television on DVD

Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, shame CSI with their collection of crime dramas (which includes a “bitchslapping” Perry Mason)

A Mid-Summer Report Card From Steven Boone

“Isn’t it inspiring for you as a young black man to see a black man standing up, flying around, fighting crime, saving people’s lives?”

“Nah, he was drunk and joint.”

Alex Gibney on Gandalf, Obama and the Death of the American Dream

Steven Boone talks to Hunter S. Thompson’s documentarian about, among other things, how the writer “got very depressed when Bush won in ‘04 and not long after that he committed suicide.”

Marguerite the Whore

A short story by Steven Boone––by a film critic, about film critics, meant exclusively for an audience of film critics.

Felon Fest: Notes on Camp

Steven Boone on Susan Sontag: “She didn’t know shit.”

Crashing the Set of ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’, Part II

Steven Boone returns to the continuing saga of the Antoine Fuqua film shooting in his Brooklyn neighborhood. This week, a chat with the film’s tollbooth worker-turned-screenwriter.

Sex and the City: Not Just For Rich White Chicks

Steven Boone talks to three black women about Sex and the City, and how it alternately reflects, influences and ignores their experiences.

Crashing the Set of ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’, Part I

Steven Boone wanted a $10 phone card. He got an afternoon on the Brooklyn set of Antoine Fuqua’s next film.

Directed by Michael Jackson

Steven Boone imagines an alternate universe in which the King of Pop becomes Hollywood’s most socially conscious filmmaker.

Felon Fest: Statham vs. The Man

Four felons, two bunkbeds, Jason Statham and “that crazy TRANSPORTER shit.”