Tuesday, April 19 2011
‘Rabbit Hole’ Tackles a Heartbreaking Topic with Humor, Humanity and Grace
Strange as it seems, Rabbit Hole derives a lot of its strength from its uplift.
Wednesday, January 13 2010
Portrait of the Artist…and Their Family
I’d rather hear superstars admit to egos gone wild than insist they uphold “family first” values if family first is not a reality for them.
Tuesday, March 24 2009
Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)
In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.
Thursday, March 12 2009
Australia
As far as films go, this one's rather like a fleeting romance that wants to be a torrid affair.
Sunday, March 1 2009
Woolf at the Door
Both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours offer an illuminating look at the choices we make, the roles we play, and the hours that hinge our lives together.
Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
Australia
Australia is both an epic and a post-epic epic: it understands what's at stake in such spectacle-making and wants to show you that it knows.
Tuesday, October 28 2008
Lagerfeld Confidential
A brilliant if prickly documentary subject who balances the yin of marketing pragmatism with the yang of fashion fantasy.
