Features
Monday, June 15 2009
20 Questions: Crayton Robey
The Boys in the Band defined a moment in LGBT history. Crayton Robey explores that history in Making the Boys, which debuted at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Reviews
Tuesday, April 20 2010
Jade
Jade denies the viewer the pleasures that are needlessly treated as being beyond reach despite being right there on the screen in front of us, begging to be rearranged, realized and enlivened.
Friday, February 19 2010
To Live and Die in L.A.
Encapsulating the sights, sounds, and complexities that define Los Angeles, William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. is a brutal tale of vengeance and vigilantism.
Monday, March 16 2009
French Connection 1 & 2
Watching the original with its sequel draws attention to the subtle but inarguably greater care Friedkin brought to the earlier film.
Thursday, October 25 2007
Bug
Bug does what it sets out to do, which is to burrow under your skin and fester there, goading you to dig it out with something sharp.
Friday, May 25 2007
Bug (2006) (2006)
What goes on in Aggie's head is the point of departure for Bug, which is not, as early trailers suggested, anything like a conventional horror film.
News
Tuesday, May 29 2007
William Friedkin: A master storyteller returns with Bug
"What a director's doing at all times in a film is creating an atmosphere where the actors feel free not only to perform," William Friedkin…
