The romantic comedy genre has been gang raped by small-minded fantasy pushers. There was a time, though, when the best...
Read moreHow to Train Your Dragon is one of the best animated features ever to hit the Oscar race. It wasn't...
Read moreI'm not really sure what the reasoning was behind accepting Atom Egoyan's Captives into the main festival competition, especially after...
Read more“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.” ― Claude Monet With Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, a perfect union of...
Read moreGrace of Monaco does many interesting things but one thing it won't do is enable Nicole Kidman to win an...
Read moreFirst, a question: Who's Twice as Hot as Scarlett Johansson? Answer: Scarlett Johansson and her twin brother Hunter. I wish...
Read more“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any...
Read moreJC Chandor’s Oscar-nominated screenplay, Margin Call, took him ten years to write. It is a deliberate, careful study of what...
Read morei carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and...
Read more“The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.” -...
Read moreSteve McQueen’s unflinching, almost surreal look at the evils of slavery inevitably pulls us flush up against today. You can...
Read moreAbdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Color is a film I wish I'd seen in my early twenties. Rarely has a...
Read moreThe love story is really what drives Jason Reitman's beautifully rendered film Labor Day, which stars Kate Winslet and Josh...
Read more“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how...
Read moreNow that Blue Jasmine has opened with the best premiere numbers of Woody Allen's career, the film will be seriously...
Read moreThe map of Woody’s New York tracked his own meandering transformation from outsider to insider. The finest of his east...
Read moreOfficial site for Blackfish, with screenings and info is here. Most of us don't know what goes on behind the...
Read moreKenneth Turan's review in the LA Times is of one 7 perfect scores of 100 on Metacritic so far. Fruitvale...
Read moreAcross the wide, bleak expanse of Nebraska Alexander Payne cuts two charcoal figures -- Will Forte and Bruce Dern. Nebraska...
Read moreThe story of my festival-going life tends to be that I miss the one film that winds up on everyone's...
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