Vice Magazine

The founder of ‘Vice’ was once the definition of hipster. Now he’s trying to scrape out a life, post-magazine

Chris Morris’s Four Lions has debuted to uneasy but strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. It may be the most eagerly awaited English-language comic project on the planet. Morris is a unique figure—a secretive, almost reclusive English radio and TV writer who occasionally emerges from hiding to spray vitriol at the Establishment and, generally, the self-satisfied and delusional. His series The Day Today and Brass Eye cannot be watched without the viewer being astonished that such jokes and surreal images ever made it to air. Even to think of them makes one redden in shame for the masses of herd-followers who think of Conan O’Brien as hip and transgressive.

Jeff Harris goes behind the scenes

The stars just seem to shine brighter north of the border. Exclusive pictures of celebrities on the red carpet and in their own habitat (aka hotel rooms) at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Check out Matt Damon, Jennifer Garner, George Clooney and Brad Pitt — erm, with an itchy nose.

Get a feel for the deep South with pictures onstage and on the streets of the Lone Star state. The Beastie Boys, Neil Young, Morrissey and Lady Sovereign are just a few of the hundreds of acts that took over Austin, TX.