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John Cusack, Twitter VJ?

Last night, Cusack used his account to play VJ, tweeting links to 13 songs on YouTube. Should we really be surprised that the man who played Rob Gordon in High Fidelity has excellent taste in music?  read more

A Farewell of Sorts: My 15 Best Lists of the Day

Like Conan O’Brien, today is my final day at my dream job. After six-and-a-half years as associate editor at _Paste_, I’ve finally decided that it’s time to move on...  read more

Roland Emmerich Plans to Bring 2012 to TV

Roland Emmerich’s much-anticipated (and sometimes maligned) disaster flick 2012 hasn’t even come to theaters yet and already there are talks of it being adapted for the small screen....  read more

Say Anything (20th Anniversary Edition)

DVD Release Date: Nov. 3 Director/Writer: Cameron Crowe Cinematographer: László Kovács Starring: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney Studio/Run Time: Twentieth Century Fox, 100 mins. To know this movie is to love it Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything hearkens to that bygone age of teen movies when depictions of first love didn’t need a veneer of detached self-awareness. Underachiever and all-around nice guy Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) genuinely loves the brainy and beautiful Diane Court (Ione Skye). And, though Diane’s academic ambitions and overprotective father (John Mahoney) threaten to derail the budding romance, Lloyd doggedly pursues his paramour, pitting...  read more

Austin Film Festival 2009 Part Two

I don't know if festival programmers do this on purpose but sometimes you come across a documentary and a narrative that fit well together as companion pieces. This year the documentary Warrior Champions compliments the drama The Messenger. Melissa Stockwell in Warrior ChampionsWarrior ChampionsWhether they're embedded in Iraq for the Discovery Channel's acclaimed series  "Off to War" or filming about the drug wars and sky rocketing murder rate in Juarez, Mexico for the New York Times, Craig and Brent Renaud have never shied from the dangerous stories. But with Warrior Champions the filmmakers look at the other side of war by telling the story of America's paraplegic...  read more

Watch Some Hilarious Promo Footage of Roland Emmerich's 2012 With the Special Effects Removed

Director Roland Emmerich certainly loves himself some CGI-fueled spectacle. Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow; for the last 15 years, almost all of his movies have banked heavily on a cornucopia of special-effects eye candy. And his upcoming disaster-porn movie 2012 looks to carry on that grand tradition of famous U.S. landmarks being destroyed by apocalyptic disasters. ...  read more

Let's Get (Meta) Physical: Top 5 Top 5 Lists in John Cusack film High Fidelity

Us music geeks love making Top 5 lists. It helps us deal with and understand this big scary world. Writer Nick Hornby understood this when he wrote the novel High Fidelity. As did John Cusack and director Stephen Frears when they made the movie version. Today, in Paste's List of the Day, we divulge our Desert-Island All-Time Top 5 Most-Memorable Top 5 Lists from the film version of High Fidelity. ...  read more

War, Inc.

I wish I understood comedy enough to know why Dr. Strangelove makes...  read more

John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich's 2012

It seems John Cusack's film focus may be shifting from romantic comedies to the suspenseful and supernatural. What with his most recent films being Martian Child and the Stephen King-adapted 1408, it may come as no big surprise that he just got on board with...  read more

Which John Cusack character would you most like to see date your mother?

"Grace is Gone," starring John Cusack, hits limited U.S. theaters this Friday. Which Cusack character would you most like to see date your mother? [843 votes total] Rob Gordon ("High Fidelity") (191): 23% Jake ("Must Love Dogs") (100): 12% Craig Schwartz ("Being John Malkovich") (31): 4% Eddie Thomas ("America's Sweethearts") (22): 3% Lloyd Dobbler ("Say Anything") (169): 20% Jonathan Trager ("Serendipity") (108): 13% John Kelso ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") (40): 5% Martin Q. Blank ("Gross Pointe Blank") (114): 14% Bryce ("Sixteen Candles") (31): 4% Other (37): 4% Full Results Comments ...  read more