Choke (movie)

Bijou Phillips stars in "Dark Streets," a noir film musical that opened Friday. She has recently appeared in "Choke" and "Hostel II." Danny Masterson, of "That '70s Show" fame, is her boyfriend. She is just barely bicoastal. What did you have for...

Eschewing feel-good bromides in favor of messy authenticity, "The Black Balloon" is a tough-minded coming-of-age drama. At the center of the Australian independent film is 15-year-old Thomas, who as the son of a career army man is adjusting to yet another...

Steve Buscemi, who did a season-long turn on "The Sopranos" a few years back, may be returning to the HBO fold. The "Fargo" and "Reservoir Dogs" star is in talks with the network about starring in its drama pilot "Boardwalk Empire." Emmy winner Kelly...

Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube Inc., says he always gets the same question: "When are you guys going to make money?" The answer he gave television executives at a broadcasting conference last month: "I don't think there's going to be a silver bullet....

Fox Searchlight is one of the premiere specialty labels in Hollywood, releasing successful movies such as "Little Miss Sunshine," "Sideways" and the pop-culture juggernaut "Juno." But lately Searchlight has been in the dark. The unit of News Corp.'s...

The concept behind Chuck Palahniuk's novel and Clark Gregg's movie Choke sounds just idiotic enough to be comic and exciting. A med-school dropout and sex addict who hooks up at his recovery group can't pay for his mother's hospital bills as a re-...

Scruffy and sloppy, and not without a filthy charm, " Choke" is writer-director Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 2001 novel of sex addiction and mother issues, and it plays out not unlike its central character's life: fumbling toward...

Fess up: You laughed when you heard the news that David Duchovny had checked himself into rehab for sex addiction. It's funny, or seems that way, even if you know it's also a real illness and kind of sad. That disquieting blend of raunchy-randy-...

Fess up: You laughed when you heard the news that David Duchovny had checked himself into rehab for sex addiction. It's funny, or it seems that way, even if you know it's also a real illness and kind of sad. That disquieting blend of raunchy-randy-...

Fess up: You laughed when you heard David Duchovny had checked himself into rehab for sex addiction. It's funny, or seems that way, even if you know it's also a real illness and kind of sad. That disquieting blend of raunchy, ridiculous and pathetic...

The aggressively transgressive " Choke," based on the novel by punk-lit author Chuck Palahniuk, really piles it on: Sam Rockwell plays Victor Mancini, a con man who fakes choking attacks in restaurants to gain the sympathy of wealthy diners. He's also a...

Sometimes you get the sense that "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk chooses his subject matter by opening the DSM-IV and picking out psychoses with a blindfold. In "Choke," an adaptation of one of Palahniuk's earlier novels, Sam Rockwell stars as...