North Carolina Burning
It all started with a casual remark. In 1970, Timothy Tyson was an 11-year-old white boy growing up in Oxford, N.C., when one of...
GasLand Drills for Answers
In December 2008, live-theater producer and filmmaker Josh Fox (his 2008 film, Memorial Day, was based on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal) was approached...
Love Is All Around
Even before Valentine's Day has reached the theaters, gimlet-eyed observers are already comparing it to the 2003 British film Love Actually, both movies being...
Need a Lift?
The Sundance Film Festival may be known for earnest, small-scale dramas, but it also has been the launching pad for some brutally simple low-budget...
Letters to Savannah
In her recent, cautiously positive review of Extraordinary Measures, film critic Dana Stevens advanced the idea on Slate that the movie world's new guilty...
One-Part Drama
The key to understanding what's right and what's wrong with Edge of Darkness is knowing that it's based on a British TV miniseries. Our...
Breaking Bad
Somehow, the upper reaches of stardom have always seemed to just elude Jeff Bridges' grasp despite all his advantages as a well-known actor's son...
Domestic Conflict
When I was a boy, I visited relatives in South America and noticed that all my uncles and aunts seemed to employ maids. I...
Firth of Force
Talented though he is, Colin Firth has never shown that much range. While his close contemporary Hugh Grant has made a career out of...
Medical License
In the late 1990s, a Harvard Business School graduate named John Crowley made medical history. He was a Bristol Myers executive whose two youngest...
