Lay the Favorite

Poor Rebecca Hall. If someone had told her there was no hope for Lay the Favorite, she could have saved some energy. Everyone else on set apparently realized that nothing could be done to save the film, yet she pushed on, single-handedly trying to give it some charm, some urgency, some compelling reason to exist. Alas, it was a lost cause....  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

Princess Di-aries

It had never occured to me that the queen might watch television before bedtime or drive herself across the countryside in a Land Rover.  read more