Walking Wounded
Last week when I reviewed Civic Duty, I referred to the difficulty Hollywood was experiencing when dealing with the Iraq war.
Home of the Brave...
Angry Spider
The last shot of Spider-Man 2 was a close-up of MJ Watson (Kirsten Dunst) as she watched her beloved superhero web off into the...
Puppy Love
Saturday Night Live has been creating male movie stars for decades now, and for almost as long critics and entertainment journalists have been asking...
Four Day Filmmaking
Four Day Weekend Theater in downtown Fort Worth isn’t usually thought of as a place for hardcore cinephiles, yet on a recent afternoon the...
Amusing Angel
Attention, Hollywood: Look at Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. These British guys are doing your jobs, and on a fraction of your budget.
That...
Carter’s Malaise
I have a hard time looking at Meg Ryan right now. There are a few shots in her latest film, In the Land of...
Crash
Perfect Stranger is a ride that gives off some serious warning rattles before its wheels fall off.
The movie stars Halle Berry as Rowena...
Craving More
Metal-head rockstar Glen Danzig shops for a house that has blood pouring from its walls.
A robotic chicken dressed in armor obsesses over false histories...
Curry Rice Krispies
Jhumpa Lahiri’s excellent novel The Namesake takes much of its inspiration from the 19th-century Russian author Nikolai Gogol.
Adapting it to the big screen is...
F for Fake
In interviews and public appearances, Richard Gere has repeatedly said that the most fun he has ever had on the job was playing Billy...
