Posts tagged film

Comedies always get the short end of the stick. They are held to far more exacting standards than the insufferable, weepy, heroic Hollywood fare that …

In 2004 journalist Benjamin Mee quit his job and moved his family to their perfect home, with one complication; the house was located in a …

There is a lot of great material in this movie about Lisa Cohen, an Upper West Side teenager (Anna Paquin) who is partly responsible for …

Well, it took a while (I’m getting more and more swamped with wedding stuff as the big day approaches – only a month and a …

This past Saturday I ventured up to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for the “Modern Masters of Film” screening of It Should Happen to …

This shrewdly subversive film by Jafar Panahi, an Iranian filmmaker who has been sentenced by the Iranian government to six years in jail, and has been …

The Artist begins with an intertexual nod to our hero’s predicament. We see a silent film shown in a grand movie house. The scene unfolds as …

It took me a couple of days to be able to write about this movie by Agnieszka Holland, which, as many Holocaust movies tend to …

As the Oscar approaches, I am of course devouring one best picture nominee after the other, so I can be good and ready come February …

The Woman In Black is a lovely, surprisingly effective and intelligent ghost movie starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter to you), Ciaran Hinds and the formidable Janet …