Stanley Kubrick was glad he didn't bow down to the demands of TV when he was trying to become a successful filmmaker, even if ...

Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you: It's freshman year of college, and that cute guy from your English class has finally noticed you. You wind up back at his room, and he shows you the ...

New York City teems with restaurants, offering diners many, many tasty options. With delicious often comes pretentious, though. Just because a restaurant serves up some good grub doesn’t mean that the ...

I don't think it's an over-the-top comment if I write that Timothée Chalamet is one of the top young talents in Hollywood today. However, the actor has a tendency to make headlines for the things he ...

In 2009, Brooklyn-based musician Hunter Hunt-Hendrix—leader of the band Liturgy (and now also Survival, whose debut album was released last week)—participated in a symposium called Hideous Gnosis. The ...

Mads Mikkelsen said that he doesn't method act, calling the approach "pretentious." Recently, actors like Jared Leto, Jeremy Strong, and Lady Gaga have brought attention to the method. He said that ...

"Being pretentious" is often seen as a terrible thing, but I'm here to ask you, comrades: WHY??? Being pretentious is awesome! How else are you supposed to subtly imply that you've read more books ...

Aspen has been overrun with surveys of late, and when it comes to development, opinions are many. But a recent poll by historic preservationist Les Holst and his White Shirts might have yielded ...

The product of someone with too much time on their hands at Reddit (as are most things these days), the Pretentious-O-Meter–created by Niall Beard–calculates a film’s user-generated ratings on sites ...