The great Gene Siskel famously had a test a film with this stellar of a cast would have to pass: is it more interesting than watching a documentary of these act...
The Broken Circle Breakdown may yield only a single moment of genuine subversion, but one can at least appreciate it having arrived with the very first image: a...
The blockbuster season has now officially passed, and gone with it are the nauseating evocations of the September 11th terrorist attacks that were present in so...
Capital, accomplished filmmaker Costa-Gavras' new film set within the world of corporate finance, is a fast-paced, cynical piece of entertainment that serves as...
I’ve never read a novel by Jack Kerouac—the only Beat Generation tome I have leafed through is William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch—but I imagine the experience is...
Do not watch the trailer for writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck’s Last Love (formerly Mr. Morgan’s Last Love). For many that shouldn’t be a problem because, like...
If tasked with finding any consistent, recurring motif in the ever-expanding Ridley Scott canon, one -- even an admirer -- might be inclined to admit that it ge...
Night of the Living Dead might never have happened if it wasn’t for children’s television pioneer, Fred Rogers. In the 1960s, college drop-out George Romero got...
Europe possesses a couple vocabulary words that we Americans wouldn’t take seriously if heard uttered in conversation. There’s a prejudice across the Atlantic—e...
Brisk and informative, The Paw Project, from director Dr. Jennifer Conrad, is a look at practice of cat declawing and, ultimately, the lobbying efforts to have ...
