You Can’t Do That
Musical stage shows and films established themselves as massively popular forms of entertainment in the first half of the 20th century, but then in...
We’ll Take Manhattan
Reading Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen today, it's striking how this 1985 masterpiece has penetrated to the marrow of countless movies,...
Mad Money
Madea Goes to Jail is Tyler Perry's seventh film as writer or director in only four years. In that short period of time, his...
G-Mann
Michael Mann's latest film, Public Enemies, is based on Bryan Burrough's voluminous history of the early days of the FBI, when the fledgling bureau...
Wes Bengal
A decade ago, I watched Eddie Murphy end years of crappy comedies by starring in The Nutty Professor.
Barely a year later, I witnessed Julia...
Dee Criminal-ized
American Violet is the sort of movie that Hollywood used to love making. It's a story of racially tinged injustice that lends itself...
North Country
Christopher Zalla's first feature filmmaking effort screened at Sundance in 2007 under the title Padre Nuestro, where it became the first Spanish-language film to...
