Blessed Event
It's easy to say that Juno is the movie that Knocked Up should have been.
It's one of those glib formulations that we critics are...
Hebrew Hammer
In Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg's Munich: "Every movie with Jews, we're...
My Name Is… Martha Marcy May Marlene.
One of the big stories at last winter’s Sundance Film Festival was Martha Marcy May Marlene. This low-budget psychological thriller turned heads even before...
American Woman: Raw Sienna
It must have been in 2003 when I happened to catch a few episodes of a British comedy cop show called Keen Eddie. (I...
Avatar: Blue Waters
Did anybody else watch the Black Panther sequel and get the sense that they were trolling Avatar? That movie had blue-skinned sea-dwelling people, and...
The Suicide Squad: You Kill Me
Let’s all just pretend that the original Suicide Squad movie never happened, okay? I’m so ready to do that, especially now that I’ve seen...
Indie Film Roundup
Once again, a crop of low-budget films finds its way into our multiplexes this week for our edification. You might well turn to these...
