Lincoln: Long Live the Union
Here we are in 2012, and Steven Spielberg is still surprising me. Because Lincoln has been released one week after a presidential election, everyone...
Sessions: The 36-Year-Old Virgin
You can get a double dose of John Hawkes this week. The 53-year-old character actor was in Fort Worth last weekend to be feted...
Skyfall: The Divine Ms. M
One thing the James Bond series has been known for is the “Bond girls,” those hot women of various ethnicities and varying degrees of...
Iron Fists: Wu, No!
Before he called himself RZA and conquered a big swath of the hip-hop world, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs was a teenager in New York, escaping...
Wreck-It Ralph: Pixel Sticks
We’ve seen much of Disney’s new animated film, Wreck-It Ralph, before. Movies like Despicable Me and Megamind have already spun traditional stories by adopting...
Flight: Get High
Some people make getting back in the swing of things look all too easy. Take Robert Zemeckis, who makes his return to live-action movies...
Fun Size: Late-Night Justice
This sounds like a canny piece of counterprogramming. Every year, the movie studios pollute October with another grim batch of horror sequels about ghosts,...
Cloud Atlas: Only Connect
Call a novel “unfilmable,” and you’re only waving a red flag in the face of certain filmmakers. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas has been...
Sinister: Hum-Bughuul
If cinema has taught us anything, it’s that whenever a writer moves to a new town/house/hotel, he or she is inevitably going to scare...
Films on the Fly
Half a dozen things make demands on Jennifer Brown-Thomas’ time these days, but she looks remarkably put together as she arrives for an interview...
