Reframe

“How many children had Lady Macbeth?” is a notorious phrase among literary critics. While some have considered the question seriously,...

There he goes, showing us the ugly again.  These are words I seem to remember Brad Pitt saying about Sean...

On the surface, Children of a Lesser God may look like a romantic drama about communication, and while it is that, it’s...

I know at the time many considered Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s massively successful novel a beach read or an airport...

Has there ever been a more transgressive director than Jane Campion? Whether you are talking about Sweetie, An Angel At...

The Color of Money is an outlier in the career of Martin Scorsese. While few think it’s an outright bad...

There is a version of Ali that would have pleased almost everyone. A safe version that played like a ‘greatest...

After Do The Right Thing, black cinema could no longer be ignored or marginalized. Certainly, there were significant films by...

To fully appreciate Less Than Zero as a film requires the viewer to understand the source material—the nihilistic novel of...

It must have seemed so obvious in the summer of 2002. Put Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg together in a...

In the year of its 30th anniversary, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has revised the third film in his Godfather...

For more than two hours of Paris, Texas’ two hour and twenty-five minutes of running time, you will likely have...

Lenny, Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic of Lenny Bruce starring Dustin Hoffman as the groundbreaking comedian occupies a strange space in...

Alan J. Pakula's character study masquerading as a first-rate (and it is first-rate) thriller, Klute, has always seemed to be...

David Cronenberg’s 1983 film based on the Stephen King novel is something of an anomaly for Cronenberg and his leading...

When I connected with the twice Emmy-nominated cinematographer Gregory Middleton to discuss his tremendous work on Watchmen, I don't think...

Antonia Bird’s Priest begins with a crescendo. A man sits on a park bench, picks up a large wooden cross...

Normally, when I write one of these "Reframe" pieces, I re-watch the film I'm about to cover. That’s not true...

The Insider, Michael Mann’s follow up to Heat, was critically lauded. Unlike its predecessor, it was recognized by the Academy...

It all starts with a dog. An impossibly beautiful pit bull that bartender (and maybe more) Bob Saginowski finds wounded...