Legal Eagle: The Conspirator
Even though it has a bigger budget and higher production values than most of the entries at the Sundance Film Festival, the historical legal...
Captain Kitty
Film can be a transformative experience. After all, if not for pulp serials, George Lucas might have ended up as a hot-rod mechanic. In...
The Artist: Quiet on the Set
After premiering at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and a Best Actor prize, The Artist has played to rapturous reception at...
Beale Street: Dusky Dream Harlem
The movies have mostly neglected James Baldwin, but the 20th-century novelist and essayist foresaw everything that’s happening in Trump’s America, so it’s good that...
Cal’s State: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Not so long ago, a movie like Crazy, Stupid, Love. would have been released at the height of Oscar season and touted for awards....
Sex and the City 2: Hanging On
Sex and the City 2 picks up two years after the first, with the wedding of Stanford (Willie Garson) and Anthony (Mario Cantone), Carrie’s...
Hunger Games: Girl on Fire
When it comes to adapting Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games to film, the big challenge is that the book is so many different...
Baker Street Irregulars
The Bank Job has nothing to do with the 2003 version of The Italian Job, even though both movies feature Jason Statham.
The balding, jut-jawed,...
Watch the Woman, Not The Girl
Abbie Cornish is from Australia, and yet something about her makes filmmakers think of Texas. The blonde, apple-cheeked beauty already played a small-town Texas...
Narrative Voice
I can safely say that Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than your average movie.
The film isn’t odd because it’s about a character in...
