Will Sloan

What did it take for the most famous and widely read American film critic ever to hand out his lowest possible rating, issued only a few dozen times in a 10,000-plus review career?

Talking with the actor and comedian also known as Neil Hamburger about keeping a repellent character authentic, the joys of creating intricate meta-comedy, and coping with a room full of boos.

Despite its ostensible Hollywood-friendliness, the action star's new film, Dragon Blade, bears all the hallmarks of his late-era work—namely, a propagandist's sense of not wanting to rock the boat.

Playboy has always relied on a balance between the erotic and the literary, and its long interviews are the most consistent asset for the latter. But what's that identity worth in 2015?

The yellow-suited detective once starred in America’s favourite comic strip. He’s still alive—but is he vital? How a U.S. Establishment icon became a kitsch artifact.

John Waters can’t get a film financed, but he’s been making a good living as a “John Waters impersonator.” His latest book, Carsick, gives just a hint of who else he might be.

What can Charlie Chaplin’s only novel—published in February for the first time ever—tell us about an icon whose legend has seemingly ossified?

During WWII, five of Hollywood's most successful directors donated their careers to the war effort. Mark Harris's Five Came Back explains how they made art out of propaganda and refined their voices, shaping mainstream cinema in the years to come.

This week, Al Goldstein—the oversized pornographer with the oversized mouth and libido—died of renal failure. Our writer tracks the Screw founder from his humble, filthy beginnings to his deathbed in Brooklyn, days before he passed.