Pedro + Penélope
At this point, Pedro Almodóvar truly seems incapable of making a bad movie. I can't think of any other great filmmaker working today about...
Imaginarium, Youth in Revolt Finally Out
Some films go from blank page to your local movie screen relatively quickly; Up in the Air wrapped principal photography last spring, which is...
The Top 10
America's economy may still be in recovery, but our film industry is in good health financially and (more importantly) artistically. That seems to be...
Maestro
The flawed, fabulous musical Nine is based on a Broadway show, which in turn was adapted from Federico Fellini's film 8½. Set in 1965,...
Holmes for Christmas
In a series of 1940s Hollywood films, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes as a suave, unflappable Victorian gentleman. His interpretation held sway until a...
How Ya Get So Fly
Jason Reitman has now directed three films, and so far the most famous is his second one, Juno. I suspect we'll look back on...
Am I Blue?
So your epic disaster movie broke box-office records and won every Oscar in sight. What do you do for an encore? For 12 years,...
Amphibian Production
Traditional hand-drawn animation has been out of fashion for much of this decade. Most of Hollywood followed Pixar's lead years ago and went to...
Try and Fail
Nelson Mandela reportedly said that if an actor ever were to portray him on screen, he'd want it to be Morgan Freeman. Well, with...
Carrying the Flame
Unlike seemingly everybody else, I don't know any famous actors. However, I do have personal ties to a character from a new Danish biopic...
